Apollonian Gasket


	At each step, inscribe new tangent disks into each open curvilinear triangle. These open regions fill up quickly, leaving a fractal of infinitely many points that are never in any circle.


	Contributed by: Michael Schreiber
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Contributed by: Michael Schreiber

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