Fungible Fractals

Thinking it over, I’ve decided that trircle is a much better name than ciangle:

A Sierpiński triangle

A Sierpiński trircle, or triangle converted into a circle


A trircle is a triangle converted into a circle; a ciangle is a circle converted into a triangle. Or another regular polygon. The trircle reminded me that circularized fractals are fungible, because the Sierpiński triangle can be converted into another regular polygon like a square or pentagon or hexagon. You can go viâ the trircle, but you don’t have to. The point is that the Sierpiński triangle has a center and points lying at some distance and some angle 0° through 360°, so you can easily adjust the points to fit inside any other regular polygon:

A Sierpiński triangle again

A Sierpiński trare, or triangle converted into square

A Sierpiński trentagon

A Sierpiński trexagon

A Sierpiński treptagon

A Sierpiński troctogon


Here’s an animation of the conversions:

Sierpiński triangle → square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon (animated at ezGif)


A Sierpiński carpet, with points lying at 0° through 360° inside a square, is similarly fungible:

A Sierpiński carpet

A Sierpiński carpet converted into a circle

A Sierpiński carpet converted into a triangle

A Sierpiński carpet again

A Sierpiński carpet converted into a pentagon


And an animation of the carpet conversions:

Sierpiński carpet → triangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon (animated at ezGif)


Finally, and fungibly, the fractal that I call the centered Sierpiński triangle:

A centered Sierpiński triangle

A centered Sierpiński trircle, or triangle converted into a circle


And the final animation:

Centered Sierpiński triangle → square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon (animated at ezGif)


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