Fractals, in pictures

Since you have a chance to look at websites about fractals, I thought it would be a good idea to get you interested in them. Fractals occur in nature, are studied by scientists, and are viewed as art.



This is someone's computer-generated fractal art. Look for repeating patterns.







Here is a fractal made out of Legos by Tony Roberts, a math professor at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia.








This is the Koch flake, a popular example of what some people call "classical fractals." The Repeating patterns are pretty easy to see.










This is a picture of the plant Romanesco, which some people call Broccoflower. If you look on the top you will see a beautiful fractal design.






This leaf shows another example of fractals occuring in nature. If you look at the lines that have been drawn on you can see three different scales of the same fractal.



For more information on fractals you can go to this website, and then check out some of the links I have up.