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TWIN DRAGON [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

The 1977 Fractals points out that, with the dragon's rules of construction, a more natural initiator is (0,1) followed by (1,0), and terms the shape that is swept as a result, a twindragon. This shape is encountered number representations, Knuth 1980. It looks like this (one component dragon is in black and the other is in gray).

OBS

See also "terdragon".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Courbe de remplissage d'un plan complexe, liée aux plis du papier, développée par Chandler Davis, Donald Knuth et B. Mandelbrot.

OBS

Ainsi appelée, parce qu'une moitié évoquant le contour d'un dragon apparaît en blanc et l'autre remplit le même contour en noir.

Spanish

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