I read the definitions provided by answers.com, but I still don't understand.
No, this isn't part of a homework assignment, I'm just curious. A friend sent me a link to this site http://www.sgeier.net/fractals/flam3/ , and I'd never heard of a fractal, but thought the pictures were really cool, so I tried to look up what they were. I don't get it. Can someone explain in non-scientific vocabulary? Small, simple words are appreciated.
2007-12-07 09:53:23 · 1 answers · asked by stephieSD 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
A fractal is a mathematical construct.
If you make a visual representation (in a sense a diagram) of that construct you get pretty pictures.
It can also be not so mathematical but just looks that way. It is a way of 'stacking' the same effect over and over so patterns emerge. Like lightning striking. every lightning bolt is different but still you recognize it because it has a pattern to it. Breaking glass is a fractal. Not broken glass (well maybe that to) but the 'route' the cracks take and the pattern that forms.
It always involves the same pattern in various scales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
2007-12-07 10:11:37 · answer #1 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋