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Slide Notes

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Copy of Chaos and Plants

Messing with texture and inequalities

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Chaos

patterns and textures
Photo by arbyreed

Tesselations

  • Repetition - repeating shape - no gaps nor overlaps.
  • Tilings and tiles - individual shapes
  • Symmetry- translation, rotation, etc
  • 360 degrees at vertex
  • Mosaics, turtle shells, honeycombs
Photo by arbyreed

Escher

Reptile

  • Repetition and tile
  • A plane of tiles made of smaller tiles of the same shape.
  • Some are symmetrical and others aren’t.

Benoit Mandelbrot

  • 1970s
  • fraction of dimensions
  • koch snowflake ... remember?
  • self similarity
  • fractals are texture
Photo by carmen zuniga

Fractal Measurement

coastline problem
Photo by john47kent