Questions tagged [fractal]
Fractals are shapes that are self-similar and are usually quite detailed. Well-known fractal sets include the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Phoenix sets. Tree-like fractal drawings are also common.
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Draw a Fibonacci Swoosh
Title courtesy of Greg Martin
For this challenge, I'll define an arc of size \$k\$ as a single piece of a sine wave with a length of \$k\$ units and an height of \$\frac{k}{4}\$ units:
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Compute this fractal matrix
The unique-disjointness matrix ( UDISJ(n) ) is a matrix on all pairs of subsets of {1...,n} with entries $$ U_{(A,B)}=\begin{cases}
0, ~ if ~ |A\cap B|=1\\
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Create a triangle whose colors are determined by the bitsums of coordinates
Write a program that, for any \$n\$, generates a triangle made of hexagons as shown, \$2^n\$ to a side. The colors are to be determined as follows.
We may give the triangle barycentric coordinates so ...
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Fibonacci word fractal
The Fibonacci word is a sequence of binary strings defined as:
\$F_0 = \$ 0
\$F_1 = \$ 01
\$F_n = F_{n-1} F_{n-2}\$
The first ...
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Draw this fractal generated by applying Newton's method to cosh(x) - 1
I came across this picture the other day: (Credit to Josep M Batlle I Ferrer)
Your job is to generate this picture. This graph is generated by repeatedly applying newton's method to the graph of:
$$f(...
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Quicksand (piles)
In this fastest-code challenge, you take a positive integer as input, which represents the height of a sand pile, located at (0,0) on an infinite square grid. For example, if our input is ...
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Double the diagonal squares
Given a positive integer N, output this doubling pattern of slash squares/rectangles.
For N=1, the base is:
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Unicode T-square
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Create a function or program that, when given an integer size, behaves the following way:
If size is equal to 1, ...
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Eye test - How many squares are in this picture?
The picture:
Sick of the same old grid where the answer is simply a square pyramidal number?
Accept the challenge and write a program that given a positive integer \$n\$ counts how many squares are ...
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The Cantor Function
The Cantor function is continuous everywhere and constant almost everywhere, but has an average slope of 1:
The function can be found recursively:
\$f_0(x)=x\$
\$f_{n+1}(x)=\left\{\begin{matrix}\frac{...
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Hilbertize an image
For a computer vision app I want to do a mapping of an image, in such a way that every pixel fit hilbert curve, instead of conventional layout. So task could be as follows:
Task description
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ASCII art H trees
An H tree is a fractal tree structure that starts with a line. In each iteration, T branches are added to all endpoints. In this challenge, you have to create an ASCII representation of every second H ...
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Drawing the Peano curve
Introduction
In geometry, the Peano curve is the first example of a space-filling curve to be discovered, by Giuseppe Peano in 1890. Peano's curve is a surjective, continuous function from the unit ...
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Generalized Cantor set segment lengths
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Let's define a generalized Cantor set by iteratively deleting some rational length segments from the middle of all intervals that haven't yet been deleted, starting from a single continuous ...
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Create an "H" from smaller "H"s
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Create a function or program that, when given an integer size, does the following:
If size is equal to 1, output
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Make a 2d menger sponge [duplicate]
A menger sponge is a fractal made out of cubes within cubes within cubes...
If you start with a cube, on each face there are 9 squares. The middle square becomes empty (or 0). The other 8 squares ...
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Generate TeX to typeset Sierpinski Triangle Fractal
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Write code that outputs TeX (LaTeX) math-equation code (given below) that will typeset Sierpinski Triangle Fractal of 5 levels. Shortest code wins.
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TeX (and friends like LaTeX, ...
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Fractal Cathedral
Given a positive integer n >= 1, output the first n rows of the following structure:
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The strange attraction of the logistic map
The purpose of the challenge is to approximately plot the attractor of the logistic map as a function of its parameter r (also called bifurcation diagram), or a subregion of it. The appearance of the ...
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The Image of the Dragon
I saw a cool gif of the twin dragon curve made from a square, and wondered what would happen if we started from another base image. So I wrote a program to do this.
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Make Some Snow!
Your task: generate a Koch snowflake to the nth depth. You do not need to make a complete Koch snowflake, just one side of the starting triangle. Wikipedia on Koch flakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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ASCII Cayley Graph
While doing some research for a different challenge I'm formulating, I came across a Cayley graph, specifically this one. Since I'm one of the top ascii-art challenge writers, of course I had to make ...
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Is it within the Cantor set?
The Challenge
For this challenge, you are supposed to determine if a given number is in the Cantor set. So first, let's define the Cantor set.
First, start with the numbers between 0 and 1. Any ...
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Binary tree fractal
Today's challenge is to draw a binary tree as beautiful ascii-art like this example:
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Generate a Padovan Spiral
Introduction
Similar to the Fibonacci Sequence, the Padovan Sequence (OEIS A000931) is a sequence of numbers that is produced by adding previous terms in the sequence. The initial values are defined ...
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It's factors all the way down!
This challenge is inspired by this fantastic animated diagram (thanks to flawr for posting it in chat).
Given an input n, draw all of its prime factors as nested ...
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ASCII Hilbert Curve
Given an integer n output the nth iteration of the Hilbert Curve in ASCII using the characters ...
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Hilbertify an image
I like the Hilbert Curve.
Your task for this challenge is to take an image (strictly a square image where all the sides are a power of two pixels wide) and unravel it line by line in a zig-zagging ...
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Draw a Dragon Curve
You task for today: draw a dragon curve!
In case you don't know what a Dragon Curve is, here is an introductory ViHart video (Really cool, please watch!)
Your task: draw a dragon curve, iterated at ...
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Draw the Serpinski Triangle [duplicate]
For today's fractal challenge, draw at least 5 iterations of Sierpinski's triangle! (Shown below is Sierpinski's trinagle)
The resolution of the image must be sufficent that the smallest triangles ...
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Draw the Hilbert Curve
A Hilbert Curve is a type of space-filling curve, and it basically maps a line to a plane. Each point in the line corresponds to just one point in the plane, and each point in the plane corresponds to ...
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The IHIH Pyramid
I find it fascinating how the letters "H" and "I" are very similar. "H" is a horizontal stroke surrounded by two vertical strokes; "I" is a vertical stroke surrounded by two horizontal strokes (...
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Computer Generated Cracked Soil
Write a program that takes in an integer from 0 to 65535 (216-1) and generates a unique 500×500 pixel image that looks as similar as possible to these 6 real life images of cracked soil:
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Recursive Steiner Chains
Steiner Chains are a set of N circles where each circle is tangent to 2 other non-intersecting circles as well as the the previous and next circles of the chain, as seen in the below images:
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Gasket Weaving - draw a Sierpiński knot
Given an integer N >= 2, produce an image showing a Sierpiński knot of degree N.
For example, here are knots of degree 2, 3, 4 and 5:
Click on the images to view full size (the higher the degree the ...
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Draw an indexed fractal
Introduction
In this challenge, a 2×2 matrix is indexed like this:
0 1
2 3
We define a family of fractal-like patterns ...
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Map string to Hilbert curve
Let's map some strings to 2d space, fractal style. Your task is to compute a Hilbert curve and lay a string along it.
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The task is to take the single-line input string, and lay it out along a ...
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Help, I'm trapped in a Sierpinski triangle!
Drawing the Sierpinski triangle has been done to death. There's other interesting things we can do with it though. If we squint hard enough at the triangle, we can view upside-down triangles as nodes ...
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Converging Sums of a Fractal Sequence
Background
A fractal sequence is an integer sequences where you can remove the first occurrence of every integer and end up with the same sequence as before.
A very simple such sequence is called ...
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Generate Toothpick Sequence
What is Toothpick Sequence?
According to Wikipedia
In geometry, the toothpick sequence is a sequence of 2-dimensional
patterns which can be formed by repeatedly adding line segments
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Beta's Snowflake
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Winter is fast approaching with many places receiving the first layers of snow for the 15/16 season, so why don't we break out the snow machines and code ourselves some snow?
Given a ...
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Generate fractals from bit patterns in ASCII
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Write a program that prints out simple fractal patterns given a bit pattern encoding the fractal, plus the per-generation scale factor of the fractal and number of generations.
Explanation
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ASCII Dragon's Curve
Introduction
The Dragon's Curve is a fractal curve that notably appears on section title pages of the Jurassic Park novel.
It can very simply be described as a process of folding a paper strip, as ...
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ASCII Art of the Day #2 - Flow Snakes
A Flow Snake, also known as a Gosper curve, is a fractal curve, growing exponentially in size with each order/iteration of a simple process. Below are the details about the construction and a few ...
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ASCII art square affine fractals
Write the smallest program you can to create affine fractals. You may use any method you feel like that generates the same results as the rules below. You don't have to use any ideas from the ...
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Determine whether rational coordinates are in the right Sierpinski triangle
The Sierpinski triangle is a set of points on the plane which is constructed by starting with a single triangle and repeatedly splitting all triangles into four congruent triangles and removing the ...
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Word fractal plotter
Iterated Function Systems
An Iterated Function System (IFS) is a method of constructing self-similar fractals. Each fractal is defined recursively as the union of several copies of itself, with each ...
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ASCII L-system renderer
Background
An L-system (or Lindenmayer system) is a parallel rewriting system that, among other things, can be easily used to model fractals. This question concerns deterministic, context-free L-...
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Draw a Random Walk with Slashes
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer N (via stdin/command line/function arg) and prints or returns a string representation of a two dimensional random walk that is N steps long,...
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Sierpinskified Code
Write a rectangular block of text that when arranged into a Sierpinski carpet, using same-sized blocks of spaces for the empty portions, creates a program that outputs the iteration number of the ...
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