Clouds are not spheres, coastlines are not circles, bark...
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Clouds are not spheres, coastlines are not circles,
bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in straight lines.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Geometry of
Art and Nature
Frank Timmes
flash.uchicago.edu/~fxt/class_pages/class_geom.shtml
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Syllabus
1 Sept 03 Basics and Celtic Knots
2 Sept 10 Golden Ratio
3 Sept 17 Fibonacci and Phyllotaxis
4 Sept 24 Regular and Semiregular tilings
5 Oct 01 Irregular tilings
6 Oct 08 Rosette and Frieze groups
7 Oct 15 Wallpaper groups
8 Oct 22 Platonic solids
9 Oct 29 Archimedian solids
10 Nov 05 Non-Euclidean geometries
11 Nov 12 Bubbles
12 Dec 03 Fractals
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• astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/
• usrwww.mpx.com.au/~peterstone/
• www.angelfire.com/art2/fractals/
Sites of the Week
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Class #12
• Fractals
• Non-integer dimensions
• Iterations
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Fractals
• Where classical geometry deals with objects of integer dimensions, fractal geometry describes non-integer dimensions.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
and Marcelo B. Ribeiro
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• Non-integer dimensions can be made by picking a starting point, an iteration rule, and the number of iterations to do.
Fractals
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Not an integer
• Zero dimensional points, one dimensional lines and curves, two dimensional plane figures like squares and circles, and three dimensional solids such as cubes and spheres make up the world as we have previously understood it.
Geometry
1999, Paul Bourke
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Not an integer
• However, many natural phenomena are better described with a dimension part way between two whole numbers.
Leafifs
1999, Paul Bourke
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• A straight line has a dimension of one, but a fractal curve will have a dimension between one and two depending on how much area it takes up as it twists and curves.
• The more the fractal fills a plane, the closer it approaches two dimensions.
Not an integer
L-System brush
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• Likewise, a "hilly fractal scene" has a dimension between two and three.
Not an integer
• A landscape made up of a large hill covered with tiny bumps would be close to the second dimension, while a rough surface composed of many medium-sized hills would be close to the third dimension.
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• Non-integer dimensions can be made by picking a starting point, an iteration rule, and the number of iterations to do.
Fractals
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• Let's look further at what we mean by dimension.
Not an integer
• Take a self-similar figure like a line segment, and double its length. Doubling the length gives two copies of the original segment.
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• Take another self-similar figure, this time a square 1 unit by 1 unit. Now multiply the length and width by two.
Not an integer
• How many copies of the original size square do you get? Doubling the sides gives four copies.
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• Take a 1 by 1 by 1 cube and double its length, width, and height.
• How many copies of the original size cube do you get? Doubling the sides gives eight copies.
Not an integer
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• Let's organize our information:
Not an integer
• Do you see a pattern?
Figure Dimension Copies
Line 1 2 = 21
Square 2 4 = 22
Cube 3 8 = 23
Forest at sunset, 2000, Helixometry
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Not an integer
• When we double the sides and get a similar figure, we write the number of copies as a power of two and the exponent will be the dimension.
• It appears that the dimension is the exponent - and it is!
Fractal Lungs
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• Let's add that general case as a row to the table.
Not an integer
Figure Dimension Copies
Line 1 2 = 21
Square 2 4 = 22
Cube 3 8 = 23
Doubling d n = 2d
• We’ll see what the dimension of some fractals are as we look into making them.
Fractal Oaks, Disney
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• Non-integer dimensions can be made by picking a starting point, an iteration rule, and the number of iterations to do.
Fractals
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Iteration
• Recall that to create a fractal we need to make up a rule, specify a starting point, and the number of iterations to do.
• Starting point: An equilateral triangleRule: Connect the midpoints and cut out the middle Iterations: 5
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Iteration
• This fractal is called a Sierpinski Triangle.
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Iteration
• Start with a Sierpinski triangle and double the length of the sides.
• How many copies of the original triangle do we have? Remember that the white triangles are holes, so we don't count them.
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Iteration
• Doubling the sides gives us three copies, so using our relation between the number of
copies and dimension gives us 3 = 2d.
• So the fractal dimension of a Sierpinski triangle is d = 1.5894.
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Iteration
Stage-4 Sierpinski tetrahedron ion the limb of a River Bushwillow
2003 Gayla Chandler
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Iteration
Stage-3 Sierpinski and a birds nest
2003 Gayla Chandler
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Iteration
Menger Sponge
2001, Angelo Pesce
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Interlude
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Iteration
• Start: An equilateral triangle
• Rule: Remove the middle third of any line, and replace it with two lines that each have the same length (1/3) as the remaining lines on each side.
• Iterations: 4
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Iteration
• This fractal is called a Koch snowflake, and has a dimension of log 4/log 3 = 1.261.
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Iteration
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Iteration
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Plants
• Start: An equilateral triangle
• Can you see the rule visually at the first iteration?
• Iterations: 5
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• Iteration five of the “windy bush”.
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Plants
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Plants
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Plants
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Plants
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Plants
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Landforms
• Fractal landscapes are often generated using “spatial subdivision”.
Adam Brown, 2002
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Landforms
• For mathemagical reasons this yields surfaces that are strikingly similar in appearance to planetary terrains.
Adam Brown, 2002
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Landforms
• The idea behind spatial subdivision is quite simple. Consider a square:
1) split the square up into a 2x2 grid
2) vertically perturb each of the 5 new vertices by a random amount
3) Iterate on each new square decreasing the perturbation each step
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
Adam Brown
2003
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
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Landforms
Adam Brown
2002
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Landforms
Sir Pinsky’s Planet
2001 Daniel Kuzmenka
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What is a fractal? A rough or fragmented geometric shape
that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least
approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot