• Introduction to Fractals
• Nova Nova: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
• Example of a fractal
• Fractals in Nature - Quick Video
• Fractals vs Non-Fractals
• Fractals in Art
• The Koch Snowflake
• Play Around With Creating a Fractal
• Developing the Sierpinski Triangle
• The Sierpinski Triangle
• Pascal's Triangle
• The Chaos Game
• Why does the chaos game lead to the Sierpinski gasket?
• Fun Fact Friday - Fractals, Art, and Snowshoes
• Fun Fact Friday - Fractals and Finnegan's Wake
• Fractal Zoom Mandelbrot Corner: Video of zooming in unbelievably far on the Mandelbrot set
• Mandelbrot Viewer - you pick where to zoom - only works if you have have java running
• Practice with Complex Numbers
• Solutions to In-Class practice
• Images of the Mandelbrot Set
• Review of the recursive process involved in the Mandelbrot set
• Chart of how 3 seeds grow
• Practice with the Mandelbrot Set
• Mandelbrot Painter with Orbits - As you move the point C, points are colored according to the behavior of their sequences, AND you see the orbit (the points in the sequence
• Mandelbrot Orbit viewer - move the point C to see a point's orbit w/in the whole Mandelbrot set
• Video for The Mandelbrot Set, by Jonathan Coulton
• Buddhabrot
• Creating a Mandelbrot sunset
• A few applications of fractals
• Landscapes created using fractal geometry
• Some examples of art that seem to exhibit fractal qualities
• Art inspired by fractals

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Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 1306
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278