Monday 13 September 2010

The Chaos (5) Game

I've been struggling with chaos so I resorted to google and I found the chaos game.There are lots of versions of this game. This was the first one i came across.
It's initially an interesting distraction which stretches your brain a little but it's not a picture for the blog.... apparently it's all about creating fractal patterns so I thought... there has to be a picture in that!

The idea is to map a point in an equilateral triangle halfway from the start point and one of the points of the triangle. As soon as the point is made, it becomes the new start point. If you continue doing this long enough, using dice to decide which direction to go in, then after about 30,000 dots, you should have a Sierpinski triangle which looks like this:
which is interesting but not as pretty as this....

which is another fractal pattern!

Try googling "Sierpinski triangle" and you can find lots more pretty fractal patterns... all based on CHAOS THEORY.

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