Pump Up The Volume [1990] - Pixies Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf version) 1  The film is well worth a watch but somewhat dated - Both this scene and the Pixies song has stuck in my mind for a very long time. 2  My favorite scene in the film.
A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale. It is also known as expanding symmetry or evolving symmetry. If the replication is exactly the same at every scale, it is called a self-similar pattern.
But it was not. In fact, it rose to prominence only over the past 30 or so yearsâalmost entirely through the efforts of one man, the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot used the term fractal as it derived from the Latin word fractus, defined as broken or shattered glass.