African Culture

African Fractals

I chose to look at the African culture. I found out that...

• Africans have been using fractals for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and much more
• Fractals have the property of self-similarity, which is a small part that appears as a whole
• a Koch curve is a complicated repetitive design, it starts as a seed shape and reduced versions are incorporated to make an intricate iteration
•  all the iterations are connected to form a large and very detailed recursive loop
• recursive loops are also shown as a snake biting its own tail in Africa, it represents infinity and  "self generating" properties of certain natural and social systems
• fractals can be found among nature such as Queen Anne's Lace
• they are also found in engineering such as the Sierpinski triangle antenna
• the human lungs, Dendritic ice crystal and the Spleenwart fern are also fractals