Fractals - Microsoft · 2020. 9. 2. · Fractals and triangles What is a fractal? • A fractal is...
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Fractals
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Fractals and triangles▪ What is a fractal?
• A fractal is a pattern created by repeating the same
process on a different scale.
• One of the most famous fractals is the Mandelbrot
set, shown below.
• This was first printed out on dot matrix paper! (ask
your teacher…).
Created by Wolfgang Beyer with the program Ultra Fractal 3. - Own work
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Koch Curve▪ You will want to draw with pencil so you can erase your
previous lines.
▪ Draw an equilateral triangle. If using isometric paper,
the edges should be 9cm.
▪ Free isometric paper can be found here http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereFreeGraphPaper.htm
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Koch Curve▪ Erase the middle 3 cm and add an equilateral triangle.
▪ Repeat this on the other 2 edges.
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Koch Curve
Continue the process. For each 3cm edge, erase the
middle 1cm and draw a 1cm equilateral triangle extending
from the edge. The start is shown here.
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▪ You should now have a shape that looks like this. You
can see why the shape has the name ‘Koch’s
snowflake’.
▪ You can continue the process for as long as you wish -
make sure for each iteration you are dividing each edge
in to 3 – it’s very easy to miss some out!
Koch Curve
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Koch Curve
▪ These are the continuing steps. If you look closely on
each edge, what shape do you see emerging?
▪ There is a computer generated zoom here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbwrzkupaU
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Koch Snowflake
▪ Assuming that the length of each side of the original
triangle is 1 unit complete the following table:
• Can you work out a formula for the perimeter at the
nth stage?
• What happens to the perimeter as n increases?
STAGE PERIMETER
1 3
2
3
4
5
6
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Koch SnowflakeSTAGE PERIMETER
1 3
2 4
3
4
5
6
Each edge has
an extra 1
3added,
so each new
edge has length
11
3
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Do you think the area of the
snowflake curve is finite or
infinite?
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Does this picture help you?
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More fractals▪ Before exploring the next shape, you may wish
to watch this numberphile video
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKtFN71Lf
s
▪ Geogebra file here
https://www.geogebra.org/m/yr2XXPms
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The Sierpinski Triangle▪ The Sierpinski Triangle is made by repeatedly
splitting a equilateral triangle into 4.
▪ There is a lovely animation of an infinite
Sierpinski Triangle here:
▪ http://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-
fractals/
▪ Or here
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLxQOTJGt
8c
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Can you draw a Sierpinski
Triangle?
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Step 1:
Split the unshaded equilateral
triangle in to 4 equilateral
triangles. Shade the middle
triangle.
Each iteration you will half the
length of the triangle, so you
need the triangle to have a
length that is a power of 2.
The example uses a side
length 32.
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Iteration 1
Step 2:
Split the unshaded equilateral
triangles in to 4 equilateral
triangles. Shade the middle
triangles.
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Iteration 2Step 3:
Split the unshaded equilateral
triangles in to 4 equilateral
triangles. Shade the middle
triangles.
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Iteration 3
Step 4:
Continue…
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Iteration 4
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Iteration 5
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Doing some maths
• Look at the triangle after the first iteration. What fraction
of the triangle did you NOT shade?
• What fraction of the triangle is NOT shaded after the
second / third iteration?
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Doing some maths▪ Fill in this table
▪ Can you generalise for the nth iteration?
▪ Can you describe what this means as n → ∞?
Iteration Unshaded Shaded
1 3
4
1
4
2 9
16
3
4
5
6
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Continued watching and reading
▪ More fractals can be explored from the AMSP fractals
enrichment lesson – some of the material overlaps.
https://amsp.org.uk/resource/11-16-enrichment-lessons
▪ To explore fractal perimeter some more, watch this
excellent numberphile video on the coastline paradox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcDuVyzb8Y