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An iPad app developed by ANU researchers is using people's photographs to illustrate complex mathematics. By CASEY HAMILTON. What do blood vessels, ferns and crystals have in common? They are all examples of the beauty of fractals. Fractals are relative newcomers to the world of geometry, named by Benoit Mandelbrot in the mid-seventies. These complex, self-similar images can be described in terms of smaller copies of themselves. This repetitive quality has long piqued the interest of mathematician Michael Barnsley. Working with a team including his wife Louisa, the researchers have developed a new way for everyone to see the beauty in the environment around them - through their fractal-based iPad application, FrangoCamera.
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