Valencia High School
"Learning for Life"
Mathematics Department
Mrs. Amy Komen
akomen@hartdistrict.org
Phone: 294-1188 x 1935
Fractals!
Fractals...you have seen them around, but what are they? Defination: a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot.
What does that mean? Look at any fractal, then zoom in to a part of the fractal. Notice that the zoomed in section is a smaller version of the big picture!
Below are pictures of famous
fractals.
Create your own for extra credit!
Yeah!
Create your own for extra credit!
Yeah!
Student Samples:
