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You can see this pattern in a LOT of places. Here's an article I wrote on some years ago, along with other resources, like blackline masters for pop-up fractals and children's stories:
bhrgunatha · 1863 days ago · link ·
I love things like this. How is it fractal though?
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ThurberMingus · 1863 days ago · link ·
It's the whole self-similar thing: The first 3 notes are A-B-A. A-B-A repeats a lot of places so let's replace it with α. So now play the instrument longer (imagine zooming out one level). A-B-A-C-A-B-A = α-C-α. Hey, that looks similar. Let's call it β for short. Zoom out the timescale again and now the instrument plays β-D-β, which also repeats in a bunch of places so…
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