Koch snowflake
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The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a mathematical curve and one of the earliest fractal curves to have been described.
Description
It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a continuous curve without tangents, constructible from elementary geometry" (original French title: Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire) by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.
The progression for the area of the snowflake converges to 8/5 times the area of the original triangle, while the progression for the snowflake's perimeter diverges to infinity. Consequently, the snowflake has a finite area bounded by an infinitely long line.
See also
- Fractal
- List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension
- Gabriel's Horn (infinite surface area but encloses a finite volume)
- Flowsnake
- Self-similarity
- Weierstrass function
External links
- Koch snowflake @ Wikipedia.org
