WEEKLY WHINE

Eight best fractals

Fractals will always hold a special place in the hearts of mathematicians and math fans everywhere. Chaos and general weirdness have been part of everyday life for who knows how long, so it just makes sense that they should be included in a scientific theory. Here then are the eight best fractals or fractal-related effects.

	Cantor's Dust
	The New York Stock Exchange
	Sierpinski's Triangle
	The Butterfly Effect
	The Mandelbrot set
	Your local weather forecast
	Fournier's Multiuniverse [bonus points for solving Olber's Paradox]
	Any Julia set

For more exciting fractal and chaos stuff, tune in to Loren Hoffman's site here. For a bonus, try Fractint, the freeware DOS-based fractal calculator/designer.