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Actually, parts of it look frighteningly similar to the Heighway dragon curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_cur
by camccann 17y ago
Actually, parts of it look frighteningly similar to the Heighway dragon curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve
I can't even begin to fathom what kind of connection there might be, but the degree of resemblance seems to go beyond just coincidence.
- carbocation 17y agoYes! And the dragon curve can be written as an L-system, of which Hilbert curves are a special (space-filling) subset. Great tie-in, thank you.