By the way I'm not sure they are fractal :-)

Philippe

>Well, whoever he is, no matter, because the "fractal" of this particular
>type thing is pretty darned interesting. You can see singular torii and
>continuous curves stretching a great distance in eventual loops. And the
>double lobed, triple lobed and all the rest. Very nice indeed.
>
>
>Ph Gibone wrote:
>>
>> I've seen these curves (they are very good to animate (change randomly
the
>> orientation of each 1/4 tori), I made a 2D program to do that years ago)
>> under the name of "Truchet's Curves" from the name of Mr Truchet (don't
ask
>> me who he is)
>>
>> Philippe

>> >I've always referred to this type of space-filling curve as a Dragon
Curve.
>> >I'm not sure if that's its true mathematical name or not. Can anyone out
>> >there identify this class of curves?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
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