Holding a new mirror to nature.

As has been the case with earlier discoveries in geometry, fractals could change the way artists and musicians portray the world. Endlessly interesting and strikingly colorful, fractal images, which are geometric figures in which the same motif is repeated at several different scales, have become a...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 329; pp. 113 - 115
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited November 6 1993
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