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DRAGON DOUBLE [2 records]

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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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Record 2 2009-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
CONT

The British-French Concorde and the Russian Tupolev Tu-144 prototypes use a variation of the double delta wing called the ogee wing. It, too, uses the vortex-lift concept for improvement in low-speed subsonic flight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
CONT

Le Saab 35 Draken(Cerf-volant ou Dragon) est un avion de chasse conçu et construit par la Suède, successeur du Saab J 29 Tunnan. Il se caractérise par une aile en double delta et pouvait atteindre la vitesse de Mach 2 à partir de la version J 35D.

OBS

La voilure désigne l’ensemble des ailes. Chaque aile prise individuellement est appelée demi-voilure.

Key term(s)
  • demi voilure en double delta

Spanish

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