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Fractals

A collection of 5 posts

Circles and Triangles

This post is about a book on geometry that I read last year (finishing up over the holidays). Beautiful Geometry [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10065.html] was written by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Each of its 51 chapters explains a topic in geometry and presents an artistic plate

Artistic River Map

I got a new art print from Etsy [https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/545429118/rivers-of-europe-print-physical-europe?ref=shop_home_active_25] and wanted to show it off in this post. This print is a map composed solely of rivers [https://danbscott.ghost.io/27-rivers-to-know/] . Rivers, maps, and fractals are some

Mandelbrot Set in Excel

In my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/7-excel-functions-and-features-to-know/], I promised "something fun with complex numbers in Excel". This is it. The Mandelbrot Set The Mandelbrot Set [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set] is famous as a very visually-appealing fractal. It is based on iteratively applying a

Arabic Calligraphy

I recently got a very cool piece of art. So that's what this post is about. First things first, here it is framed and hanging on my wall: The design is Arabic calligraphy of the word al-Hurriyah (الحرية), meaning "freedom" or "liberty". The artist

Hilbert Curve

One of my favourite topics in math is fractals. For this post, I drew the Hilbert Curve fractal in octave. The Hilbert Curve [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve] is a space-filling curve: although it is one-dimensional (a series of line segments) itself, it covers a two-dimensional area. I