the.com/self similarity
the whole looks like its parts, which look like their parts, forever.
means a pattern is self-similar when zooming in reveals the same shape again, at any scale you choose.
from coined by mathematician benoit mandelbrot in the 1970s while studying coastlines, which stay jagged no matter how close you measure them.
coastline paradoxbritain's coastline length depends entirely on your ruler size
fractalsthe mandelbrot set is infinitely self-similar at every zoom
biologyfern leaves, lungs, and blood vessels all branch this way
not identicalstatistical versions repeat patterns, not exact copies