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shapes that never stop revealing more of themselves, no matter how close you zoom.
means a pattern that repeats its own structure at every scale, so a piece of it looks like the whole thing.
from coined in 1975 by mathematician benoit mandelbrot, from the latin fractus meaning broken or fractured, to describe shapes classical geometry couldn't handle.
coastline paradoxbritain's coastline length depends on your ruler size
infinite perimeterkoch snowflake has infinite edge, finite area
nature loves themferns, lightning, and lungs all self-repeat
mandelbrot setgenerated by a formula simple enough for a t-shirt