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An ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM (IFS) is a set of CONTRACTIONS, which are ways of scaling the plane by the same amount in every VECTOR BASIS. An ATTRACTOR is the set S (a shape) for which the union of the images of S under the application of all contractions in the given IFS is equivalent to S. A self-similar fractal is then the unique ATTRACTOR of an ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM (IFS).
The Sierpinski Triangle is a fractal. And the rest of these definitions are fractally awful.
Fractal by owochanriemannsigma February 3, 2025
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a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.

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They mathly required to determine how many datable men there are in a largely undatable population

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What are fractals? AND WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?
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fractal dweller 

A person who is in-tune with his or her inner intelligence (inner voice); conscious of the fact that their external experience is a reflection of their inner being.

Fractal dwelling is also synonymous with psychonauting and anything that involves dwelling outside of the boundaries set up by the Control System and indeed, their own egoic self. To the architects of control, the elitists of the world, a fractal dweller is a "dangerous man"; a man who knows the difference between the illusion of freedom and true freedom.

Famous fractal dwellers include William S Burroughs, Terence McKenna, Philip K Dick, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Carlos Castaneda, Robert Anton Wilson, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Stanislav Grof and Rick Strassman.
"transcendental fractal dweller Alan Watts once said that, "the Universe is like a giant Rorschach ink-blot."."
fractal dweller by fractal dweller November 23, 2010

fractal wrongness 

Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution.

That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you focus on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Person 1: I just came back from a debate with someone who suffered from fractal wrongness.
Person 2: What do you mean?
Person 1: No matter what he said, it was utterly wrong.
fractal wrongness by C.E.S. January 12, 2014

Fractal Fail

A fail at every conceivable level of resolution. Zooming in on any part of the fail reveals just as much fail as the entity of the whole.
Fractal fail comes after quantum fail, but before universal fail.
Fractal Fail by Pyroclasm32 February 27, 2009

fractal art

Fractal Art is digital art made with fractal software, such as Apophysis, or Tierazon. The programs plot the fractal on a graph, and then colors in parts of it that you tell it to. This is why fractal rt is digital art.
Some people (idiots) decide right off the bat that fractal art isn't art, even though it, as well as other art, has the ability to effect people's emotions, and it takes a creative mind to make it look good. It's art whether you like it or not. (Besides, if a man pooping in a can and selling it on eBay is art, why not this?)
Fractal art is very trippy looking. It is thought that only hippies love it, and while this may be true for the majority, there are plenty of people who aren't on drugs who also love to look at fractal art.
Find a tutorial on google and start making your own fractal art. :)

fractal marketing 

Fractal marketing is the process by which a product or service is promoted through modern electronic media and is subsequently picked up and scattered by potential consumers.

Whereas viral marketing presupposes that a consumer is infected with the intended message, fractal marketing reflects that the consumer modifies the message: it's still part of the snowflake's pattern, just a unique piece of it.
An example of fractal marketing would be Apple's Switch campaign of 2002 and Ellen Feiss's subsequently marketed web identity. They are affiliated, they are part of the same pattern, but this outcome could not be predicted by Apple.
fractal marketing by Olwen Lloyd December 9, 2008