sometime in the 80s I saw a marvellous b&w image in Scientific American. It was Pietgen's seahorse fractal (scroll down to image 11) & started searching out fractals. I had fractal postcards around my desk & my boss once came back from an interstate trip with a poster of a fractal created on one of the walls in the science museum.

I even bought Pietgen & Richter's Beauty of Fractals for the images. My eyes glaze when I look at the mathematics, but that's not why I bought it! The idea behind these wonderful images fascinated me - that pattern is inside pattern - the curve of the beach is made up of an infinite number of smaller curves, each side of a triangle is made up of smaller trisngles.

my brain glazes over, but I love the images & thank the man who managed to show them to us, with the aid of increasingly complex computers that could calculate what earlier mathematicians assumed existed.

sandra

I found the triangle pic I remembered -
Wikipedia on fractals - see the triangle become a star in History