Musings of a Recovering Lutheran: Stumbling through mathematics: the Chaos Game revisted 
I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, 

     Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? 

Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Isaiah 6:8 (KJV)

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Stumbling through mathematics: the Chaos Game revisted

Some time ago I wrote a few Matlab programs to investigate the Chaos Game.

For this set of plots I used Scilab, a free math program that immitates Matlab. Below is a plot of the Sierpiński Sieve with verices (0,0), (1,0), and (0.5, sqrt(3)/2), and r = 1/2 (2500 points):

The following is a plot of a square with vertices (1,0), (0,1), (-1,0), and (0,-1), and r = 2/5 (2500 points):

Posted by Recovering Lutheran at 5:35 PM
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