Fractals are shapes that repeat themselves forever. Imagine drawing a triangle, then adding smaller triangles inside it, and then doing that again and again. It starts simple but gets super detailed! Like when you look at a snowflake under a magnifying glass and see more tiny patterns inside the big one.
Examples
- A tree growing from a seed that makes more branches, and each of those branches makes smaller ones forever.
- Drawing a line with bumps on it, then adding bumps to each bump again and again.
- A snowflake made by connecting tiny triangles over and over until it looks like a whole star.
See also
- What Makes a Coin Flip Fair?
- Why Is the Shape of a Pizza So Perfect?
- How Does a Clock Work?
- What's the Point of a Shadow?
- Why Do Mirrors Always Show Us the Same Size?