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| [[File:KochFlake.svg|thumb|280px|The first four [[iteration]]s of the Koch snowflake]]
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| [[File:Von Koch curve.gif|thumb|300px|The first seven iterations in animation]]
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| [[File:Kochsim.gif|thumb|The Koch curve]]
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| The '''Koch snowflake''' (also known as the '''Koch star''' and '''Koch island'''<ref>Addison, Paul S. ''Fractals and Chaos - An Illustrated Course''. Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing (1997) ISBN 0-7503-0400-6 - Page 19</ref>) is a [[mathematics|mathematical]] [[curve]] and one of the earliest [[fractal]] curves to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a continuous curve without tangents, constructible from elementary geometry" (original French title: ''Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire'') by the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[mathematician]] [[Helge von Koch]].
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| ==Construction==
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| The Koch snowflake can be constructed by starting with an equilateral triangle, then recursively altering each line segment as follows:
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| # divide the line segment into three segments of equal length.
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| # draw an [[equilateral]] triangle that has the middle segment from step 1 as its base and points outward.
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| # remove the line segment that is the base of the triangle from step 2.
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| After one iteration of this process, the resulting shape is the outline of a [[hexagram]].
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| The Koch snowflake is the limit approached as the above steps are followed over and over again. The Koch curve originally described by [[Helge von Koch|Koch]] is constructed with only one of the three sides of the original triangle. In other words, three Koch curves make a Koch snowflake.
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| ==Properties==
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| The Koch curve has an [[Infinity|infinite]] length because each iteration creates four times as many line segments as in the previous iteration, with the length of each one being one-third the length of the segments in the previous stage. Hence the total length of the curve increases by one third with each iteration and the length of the curve after ''n'' iterations will be (4/3)<sup>n</sup> times the original triangle perimeter, which is unbounded as ''n'' tends to infinity.
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| The [[fractal dimension]] of the Koch curve is log 4/log 3 ≈ 1.26186. This is greater than the dimension of a line (1) but less than [[Peano]]'s [[space-filling curve]] (2).
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| The Koch curve is [[continuous function|continuous]] everywhere but [[differentiable function|differentiable]] nowhere.
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| ===Perimeter of the Koch snowflake===
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| After each iteration, the number of sides of the Koch snowflake increase by a factor of 4, so the number of sides after ''n'' iterations is given by:
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| :<math>N_{n} = N_{n-1} \cdot 4 = 3 \cdot 4^{n}\, .</math>
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| If the original equilateral triangle has sides of length ''s'', the length of each side of the snowflake after ''n'' iterations is:
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| :<math>S_{n} = \frac{S_{n-1}}{3} = \frac{s}{3^{n}}\, .</math>
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| Therefore the perimeter of the snowflake after ''n'' iterations is:
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| :<math> P_{n} = N_{n} \cdot S_{n} = 3 \cdot s \cdot {\left(\frac{4}{3}\right)}^n\, .</math>
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| ===Area of the Koch snowflake===
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| In each iteration a new triangle is added on each side of the previous iteration, so the number of new triangles added in iteration ''n'' is:
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| :<math>T_{n} = N_{n-1} = 3 \cdot 4^{n-1} = \frac{3}{4} \cdot 4^n\, .</math>
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| The area of each new triangle added in an iteration is one ninth of the area of each triangle added in the previous iteration, so the area of each triangle added in iteration ''n'' is: | |
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| :<math>a_{n} = \frac{a_{n-1}}{9} = \frac{a_{0}}{9^n}\, .</math>
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| where ''a''<sub>0</sub> is the area of the original triangle. The total new area added in iteration ''n'' is therefore:
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| :<math>b_{n} = T_{n} \cdot a_{n} = \frac{3}{4} \cdot {\left(\frac{4}{9}\right)}^{n} \cdot a_{0}</math>
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| The total area of the snowflake after ''n'' iterations is:
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| :<math>A_{n} = a_0 + \sum_{k=1}^{n} b_k = a_0\left(1 + \frac{3}{4} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \left(\frac{4}{9}\right)^{k} \right)= a_0\left(1 + \frac{1}{3} \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \left(\frac{4}{9}\right)^{k} \right)\, .</math>
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| Collapsing the geometric sum gives:
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| :<math>A_{n} = a_0 \left( 1 + \frac{3}{5} \left( 1 - \left(\frac{4}{9}\right)^{n} \right) \right) = \frac{a_0}{5} \left( 8 - 3 \left(\frac{4}{9}\right)^{n} \right)\, .</math>
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| ===Area and perimeter after infinite iterations===
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| As the number of iterations tends to infinity, the limit of the perimeter is:
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| :<math>\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} P_n = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} 3 \cdot s \cdot \left(\frac{4}{3} \right)^n \rightarrow \infty\, ,</math>
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| since <math>\left|\frac{4}{3}\right| > 1</math>. The limit of the area is:
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| :<math>\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} A_n = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{a_{0}}{5} \cdot \left(8 - 3 \left(\frac{4}{9} \right)^n \right) = \frac{8}{5} \cdot a_{0}\, ,</math>
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| since <math>\left|\frac{4}{9}\right| < 1</math>.
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| So the area of the Koch snowflake is 8/5 of the area of the original triangle. Expressed in terms of the side length ''s'' of the original triangle this is <math>\frac{2s^2\sqrt{3}}{5}</math>.<ref>[http://ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~lriddle/ifs/ksnow/ksnow.htm Koch Snowflake<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Therefore the infinite perimeter of the Koch triangle encloses a finite area.
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| ==Tessellation of the plane==
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| [[File:Koch similarity tiling.svg|thumb|[[Tessellation]] by two sizes of Koch snowflake]]
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| It is possible to [[tessellate]] the plane by copies of Koch snowflakes in two different sizes. However, such a tessellation is not possible using only snowflakes of the same size as each other. Since each Koch snowflake in the tessellation can be subdivided into seven smaller snowflakes of two different sizes, it is also possible to find tessellations that use more than two sizes at once.<ref>{{citation|title=78.13 Fractal tilings|journal=Mathematical Gazette|first=Aidan|last=Burns|volume=78|issue=482|year=1994|pages=193–196|jstor=3618577}}.</ref>
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| == Thue-Morse Sequence and Turtle graphics ==
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| A [[Turtle Graphics|Turtle Graphic]] is the curve that is generated if an automaton is programmed with a sequence.
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| If the [[Thue–Morse sequence]] members are used in order to select program states:
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| * If ''t''(''n'') = 0, move ahead by one unit,
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| * If ''t''(''n'') = 1, rotate counterclockwise by an angle of π/3,
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| the resulting curve converges to the Koch snowflake. | |
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| ==Representation as Lindenmayer system==
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| The Koch Curve can be expressed by a [[rewrite system]] ([[Lindenmayer system]]).
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| :'''Alphabet''' : F
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| :'''Constants''' : +, −
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| :'''Axiom''' : F++F++F
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| :'''Production rules''':
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| : F → F−F++F−F
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| Here, ''F'' means "draw forward", ''+'' means "turn right 60°", and ''−'' means "turn left 60°".
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| == Variants of the Koch curve ==
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| Following von Koch's concept, several variants of the Koch curve were designed, considering right angles (quadratic), other angles ([[De Rham curve#Césaro curves|Césaro]]) or circles and their extensions to higher dimensions (Sphereflake):
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| | 1D, 85° angle || [[Image:Koch Curve 85degrees.png|thumb|150px|Cesaro fractal]]|| The Cesaro fractal is a variant of the Koch curve with an angle between 60° and 90° (here 85°).
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| | 1D, 90° angle || [[Image:Quadratic Koch 2.png|thumb|150px|Quadratic type 1 curve]]|| align="left"| [[Image:Quadratic Koch curve type1 iterations.png|thumb|450px| The first 2 iterations]]
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| | 1D, 90° angle || [[Image:Quadratic Koch.png|thumb|150px|Quadratic type 2 curve]]|| align="left"| [[Image:Quadratic Koch curve type2 iterations.png|thumb|450px| The first 2 iterations. Its fractal dimension equals 1.5 and is exactly half-way between dimension 1 and 2. It is therefore often chosen when studying the physical properties of non-integer fractal objects.]]
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| | 1D, ln 3/ln (√5) || [[Image:Karperienflake.gif|thumb|150px|Quadratic flake]]|| align="left"| [[Image:Karperienflakeani2.gif|thumb|450px| The first 2 iterations. Its fractal dimension equals ln 3/ln (√5)=1.37.]]
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| | 1D, ln 3.33/ln (√5) || [[Image:quadriccross.gif|thumb|150px|Quadratic Cross]] || align="left"| Another variation. Its fractal dimension equals ln 3.33/ln (√5)=1.49.
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| | 2D, triangles || [[Image:Koch surface 3.png|thumb|150px|von Koch surface]]|| [[Image:Koch surface 0 through 3.png|thumb|450px| The first 3 iterations of a natural extension of the Koch curve in 2 dimensions]]
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| | 2D, 90° angle || [[Image:Quadratic Koch 3D (type1 stage2).png|thumb|150px|Quadratic type 1 surface]]|| Extension of the quadratic type 1 curve. The illustration at left shows the fractal after the second iteration [[Image:KochCube Animation Gray.gif|thumb|300px|Animation quadratic surface]].
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| | 2D, 90° angle || [[Image:Quadratic Koch 3D (type2 stage1).png|thumb|150px|Quadratic type 2 surface]]|| Extension of the quadratic type 2 curve. The illustration at left shows the fractal after the first iteration.
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| | 3D, spheres || [[image:Sf6.jpg|thumb|150px|Closeup of Haines sphereflake]] || [[Eric Haines]] has developed the sphereflake fractal, which is a three-dimensional version of the Koch snowflake, using spheres.
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| Squares can be used to generate similar fractal curves. Starting with a unit square and adding to each side at each iteration a square with dimension one third of the squares in the previous iteration, it can be shown that both the length of the perimeter and the total area are determined by geometric progressions. The progression for the area converges to 2 while the progression for the perimeter diverges to infinity, so as in the case of the Koch Snowflake, we have a finite area bounded by an infinite fractal curve.<ref>Demonstrated by [[James McDonald (writer)|James McDonald]] in a public lecture at KAUST University on January 27, 2013. [http://www.kaust.edu.sa/academics/wep/] retrieved 29 January 2013.</ref> The resulting area fills a square with the same center as the original, but twice the area, and rotated by π/4 radians, the perimeter touching but never overlapping itself.
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| The total area covered at the n<sup>th</sup> iteration is :<math>\begin{align} A_{n} &
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| = \frac{1}{5} + \frac{4}{5} \sum_{k=0}^n \left(\frac{5}{9}\right)^k \mbox{giving} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} A_n = 2 \, .\end{align}</math>
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| While the total length of the perimeter is :<math>\begin{align}P_{n} & = 4 \left(\frac{5}{3}\right)^n
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| \, \end{align}</math> which approaches infinity as n increases
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| == See also ==
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| * [[List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension]]
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| * [[Gabriel's Horn]] (infinite surface area but encloses a finite volume)
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| * [[Flowsnake]]
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| *[[Weierstrass function]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| * Edward Kasner & James Newman, ''[[Mathematics and the Imagination]]'' [[Dover Press]] reprint of [[Simon & Schuster]] (1940) ISBN 0-486-41703-4, pp 344–51.
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| == External links ==
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| :– [[Khan Academy]]
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| {{Commons|Koch curve}}
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| {{Commons|Koch snowflake}}
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| *[http://www.efg2.com/Lab/FractalsAndChaos/vonKochCurve.htm von Koch Curve]
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| *[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KochSnowflake.html The Koch snowflake in Mathworld]
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| *[http://www.qsl.net/kb7qhc/antenna/fractal/Triadic%20Koch/review.htm Application of the Koch curve to an antenna]
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| *{{cite web |url=https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10210/1941/2Mathematical.pdf?sequence=2 |format=pdf |title=A mathematical analysis of the Koch curve and quadratic Koch curve |accessdate=22 November 2011}}
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