Talk:Self-similarity

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[edit] Req diagram

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Hyacinth 17:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I added the animated diagram.Cuddlyable3 16:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


10.22, 29 November, 2007

This animation is nerve-racking when I want reading the text. Please allow to stop it somehow! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.181.185.8 (talk) 10:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry that I know no simple way to stop a browser from displaying the two animations. However you are free to hold a piece of paper over them. Alternatively you could view the text without illustrations in the edit window. Cuddlyable3 20:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Symmetry

Isn't self-similarity related to symmetry somehow? Is there any literature that discusses the relationship between the two? They seem closely related. Although I could be totally off on this; call it a hunch. e.g. in regards to the Koch curve and the Mandelbrot set, the magnification that makes the sets interesting is just a scaling transformation right? And if some object retains some properties (hence similarity) under a transformation, thats the definition of symmetry. Just a laymen's understanding, so don't jump on me too much if I have something wrong here. If there is any discussion of this in the literature, it would be nice if it was mentioned here. Brentt (talk) 19:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)