Cynthia Lanius

The Jurassic Park fractal:

Table of Contents    Introduction   Why study fractals?     What's so hot about     fractals, anyway?   Making fractals     Sierpinski Triangle          Using Java          Math questions          Sierpinski Meets Pascal     Jurassic Park Fractal          Using JAVA          It grows complex          Real first iteration          Encoding the fractal          World's Largest     Koch Snowflake          Using Java          Infinite perimeter          Finite area          Anti-Snowflake             Using Java   Fractal Properties     Self-similarity     Fractional dimension     Formation by iteration   For Teachers     Teachers' Notes     Teacher-to-Teacher   Comments     My fractals mail     Send fractals mail   Fractals on the Web     The Math Forum   Other Math Lessons     by Cynthia Lanius

Here's another look at the fractal after 4 paper-folds, what the book calls the First Iteration.       What would the fractal look like after another paper-fold? Let's try it and see. Take the fractal you made and fold it back together as before, then fold once more, five times in all. Unfold and compare to the Second Iteration below.

But of course, you can't fold the paper 50 times, so you let the computer take over the paper-folding process. A computer can't fold paper!?! No, but it can simulate the process.

URL http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/jurr2.html