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Nathan Reading, NC State, “Fractals, the chaos game, and the contraction mapping theorem”
January 19, 2017 | 4:30 am - 5:20 pm EST
One way of drawing a fractal shape uses a random process called
the Chaos Game to produce a predictable (non-random) picture. We
need to explore an important theorem called the Contraction Mapping
Theorem. We’ll only scratch the surface, but we’ll try to get a sense of the
interesting ideas involved. No prior knowledge of fractal geometry
will be assumed.