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I programmed this on my TI-83 back in the day and spent many hours watching it generate triangles during boring classes.

You can generate many other fractals (e.g. fern shapes) in a similar way, though the transformations are more complicated than “move halfway to selected point”.



yes, those are called iterated function systems (IFS) fractals




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