Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Egyptian Fractals


This image compares Egyptian architectural designs to the Cantor set, a fractal pattern. The Egyptian design is based on the symbol for biological recursion of the lotus flower. Perhaps this design influenced Cantor, who was fascinated with ancient Egypt.

1 comment:

kcantor said...

I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I read this post and found out there is fractal named after a man with my last name! So I researched the fractal and think it is really cool - yay!