Chaos Fractals
What is a Fractal?
A fractal is a geometric shape that is similiar to itself at different scales. More clearly, a fractal shape will look almost, or even exactly, the same no matter what size it is viewed at.
Fractal objects have several interesting properties. One of the most interesting is self-similarity. The Sierpenski triangle is a good example of this. Sierpenski's is composed of four smaller triangles, each of which are composed of four even smaller triangles, and so on. A fractal object object such as this exhibit self-similarity over many scales of observation. Another property of a fractal object is a lack of well defined scale. A good example of this is clouds, which tend to look very similar no matter what their size. The human body's arteries, veins, nerves, parotid gland ducts, and the bronchial tree all show some type of organization. Fractals can also be found in:
-Regional distribution of pulmonary blood flow
-Pulmonary alveolar structure
-Mammographic parenchymal pattern as a risk for breast cancer
-Regional myocardial blood flow heterogeneity
-Fractal surfaces of proteins
-Distribution of arthropod body lengths
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