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FRACTALS IN ART

 

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EN SPRIAL

p80_3.jpg (4113 bytes)The beautiful Nautilus shell contains the Golden Spiral, got from a fractal.The Golden Rectangle (GR) has flourished for millennia. It is a rectangle of special proportions used in modernday paintings and ancient architecture. If you place a square inside a GR, you're left with another GR. You can keep repeating this process till infinity. If you join all the vertices of the GRs, then you get the Golden Spiral.

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