Quotes About Self-similarity

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

His studies of irregular patterns in natural processes and his exploration of infinitely complex shapes had an intellectual intersection: a quality of self-similarity. Above all, fractal meant self-similar.

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

Self-similarity on all scales is a key factor in understanding and describing nature's phenomena.

The signature of chaos is the fractal attractor-fractals are the patterns of chaos