Fractals Generated by Multiple Reflections of Circles
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The original circles reflect each other a certain number of times to form a larger configuration of circles.
Contributed by: Yuncong Ma (March 2011)
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The self-conformal iterated function system comes from the mapping involving circular arcs that are tangent to their neighboring circle arcs.
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Published: March 7 2011
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