Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 19, 2004



A fractal is a geometric object with an irregular, broken or fractured shape, generated by a repeating pattern, typically a recursive or iterative process. This gives it many interesting features, most notably self-similarity and infinite detail regardless of magnification. Classical attempts to measure the size of a fractal's perimeter, area or volume fail, due to the lack of definite limit of detail. Fractal geometry has numerous applications in science, technology and computer-generated art. (more...)

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