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Self-Similarity

An object is said to be self-similar if it looks ``roughly'' the same on any scale. Fractals are a particularly interesting class of self-similar objects.

See also Fractal


References

Hutchinson, J. ``Fractals and Self-Similarity.'' Indiana Univ. J. Math. 30, 713-747, 1981.




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1999-05-26