Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaleidoscopic fractal

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The result of the debate was delete · Katefan0^(scribble) 20:21, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kaleidoscopic fractal

The term "kaleidoscopic fractal" appears to be a neologism with no precise definition, and the current loose definition is difficult to apply. All fractals have symmetry, and can be drawn with rich color. Use of the term "kaleidoscope" seems to imply that the fractal has a point symmetry group, but no examples are given. In google, almost all of the hits seem to be to this WP page, or its copies in places like answer.com, etc. linas 23:07, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: do any of these search results help? I modified it to exclude most of the mirrors. It seems to be used as "Kaleidoscopic fractal art" on several pages. Here's a definition from one of the results: A design that can be described in two words as kaleidoscopic, "a constantly changing set of colors, shapes, phases or events", and fractal, "a non-linear geometric figure sensitive to it's initial conditions." Is this any better? If not, delete as per linas. -- Kjkolb 08:59, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, but I didn't find anything usable there. linas 00:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Term is very loosely defined (so probably not encyclopaedic) and seems to be only used by Willow Hemphill (so probably original research). Best reference I could find is http://www.kaleido.us/coloring/coloringbook.pdf (9 MB), which is very similar to the definition cited by Kjkolb. Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as nonverifiable. Paul August ☎ 03:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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