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Dragon curve - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclops, Echidna, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Mafioso, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Tartar, Typhon, Agama, Alligator, Anole, Bear, Beast |
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 The dragon curve can be tiled to fill a plane. A dragon curve is a well-known recursively defined curve, similar in vein to the von Koch snowflake.
It can be formed by paper-folding methods and can be written as a Lindenmayer system with
- initial string FX,
- string rewriting rules
- X <math>\mapsto<math> X+YF+,
- Y <math>\mapsto<math> -FX-Y,
- angle 90°.
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