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  2. Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

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    A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art, especially in textiles, tiles, and wallpaper. The simplest wallpaper group, Group p 1 ...

  3. Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia

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    The Mandelbrot set (/ ˈmændəlbroʊt, - brɒt /) [1][2] is a two-dimensional set with a relatively simple definition that exhibits great complexity, especially as it is magnified. It is popular for its aesthetic appeal and fractal structures. The set is defined in the complex plane as the complex numbers for which the function does not ...

  4. Electric Sheep - Wikipedia

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    The name "Electric Sheep" is taken from the title of Philip K. Dick 's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The title mirrors the nature of the project: computers (androids) who have started running the screensaver begin rendering (dreaming) the fractal movies (sheep). The sheep motif is carried over into other aspects of the project ...

  5. Fractal flame - Wikipedia

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    A fractal flame created by the Electric Sheep computing project. Fractal flame created in Apophysis. Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class [1] of fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992. [2] Draves' open-source code was later ported into Adobe After Effects graphics software [3] and translated into the Apophysis ...

  6. Burning Ship fractal - Wikipedia

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    Our ship is on fire. The Burning Ship fractal, first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Rössler in 1992, is generated by iterating the function: in the complex plane which will either escape or remain bounded. The difference between this calculation and that for the Mandelbrot set is that the real and imaginary components ...

  7. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave ...

  8. 'He didn't blink': Kirk Cousins defies doubters to lead ...

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    Cousins finished 20-of-29 with 241 passing yards and two touchdowns. Most of the damage came in the second half, when he was 13-for-16 with 166 yards and had a 149.5 passer rating.

  9. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.