How does the Dragon Curve fractal applet work?
The Dragon Curve fractal is a pretty interesting one. You can imagine a long strip of paper that gets folded in half many times until you get a pretty small piece of folded paper or a small line. You then unfold it 90o to get something that looks like an L, as with all fractals, you proceed to unfold it again another 90o to get a shape that looks like two L’s connected together. And of course you get going. With real paper there is a physical limit regarding how many times one can fold a paper in half. Even though in theory there is no real limit in a computer, the limit becomes the amount of memory and the actual processor. Even though this is one of the slowest growing fractals, you probably won’t be able to go past iterations 13 or 14. Go ahead and give it a try5. If your browser recognized the applet tag, you would see the Koch snowflake curve applet here. To make this fractal a bit more interesting, this applet allows you to chose the initial segment. By clicking on the INIT butto
