Teardrop fractals are a subset of grouped element fractals, independently discovered by myself and R. William Gosper. Teardrop fractals are derivable from cyclically symmetric fractals with a central element. This page covers those teardrop fractals derived from the Koch snowflake. Like all other teardrop fractals, these tile the plane.
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Related fractals - Koch snowflake
Sources: The first was reverse engineered from an image presented by R. William Gosper. The remainder were found by a systematic search for teardrop derivatives of the Koch Snowflake.
data file teardrop.xil; generator gef.pl; images generated at 6x4 per screen at 1280x1024
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© 2001, 2016 Stewart R. Hinsley