Mandibular Metamorphosis

Here’s the famous Sierpiński triangle:

Sierpiński triangle


And here’s the less famous T-square fractal:

T-square fractal (or part of it, at least)


How do you get from one to the other? Very easily, as it happens:

From Sierpiński triangle to T-square (and back again) (animated)
(Open in new window if distorted)


Now, here are the Sierpiński triangle, the T-square fractal and what I call the mandibles or jaws fractal:

Sierpiński triangle


T-square fractal


Mandibles / Jaws fractal


How do you cycle between them? Again, very easily:

From Sierpiński triangle to T-square to Mandibles (and back again) (animated)
(Open in new window if distorted)


Elsewhere other-accessible…

Agnathous Analysis — a closer look at these shapes

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