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Fractals are the result of a body of math or an algorithm.
a fractal is a geometric shape that has the property of self symmetry, where parts or regions of the shape are analogous to the whole, other parts, and its own subparts. they are generally not the graphs of an equation, but are the result of an iterated (recursive) algorithm, or from a body of math that produces a region of solutions (like the Mandelbrot set above, which is the graph of a set of complex numbers (X and Y coming from their real and imaginary components)).
