Vocabulary: Fractal geometry, element, fractals, fractal dimension, snowflake curve, snowflake island, self-similar fractal, iteration, Cantor set, Sierpinski triangle, Sierpinski sponge, Mandelbrot set, random iteration.
Assignment: Read section 10E page 583-593
Notes:
1. You will learn fractal terms by using the Fractal
Definitions.
2. You will learn more about fractals and you will generate some
fractals by doing the Fractal
Activity
You will use these web sites when doing this activity
Part 1
http://www.math.umass.edu/~mconnors/fractal/generate/pascal2.gif
Part 2 http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/fractals/fractalgallery/gallery_3_9_90.html
Part 2 http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/fractal/pics.html
Part 3 http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Frac/
3. You will create a fractal by hand by doing the Fractals
by hand
Skills you need to master in this section:
1. Create a fractal by hand
2. Learn the difference between the dimension of a fractal and
the dimension of an ordinary object.