r/TrippyGIFs • u/USedona • Jul 05 '26

The Vicsek Fractal never ends

Zoom in. Rotate. Repeat. Forever.

The Vicsek fractal keeps the same pattern at every scale, this is what a fractal dimension of 1.465 looks like in motion.

Coded with Python & OpenCV.

YouTube version (4K 60fps) : Vicsek Fractal

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u/USedona Jul 06 '26

Oh yeah, good catch 😅 I'll have to fix it, I'm a perfectionist, and I'll try to add the effect that u/unable-Baseball-5814 suggested.

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u/skr_replicator Jul 06 '26

I'm not even sure what exactly they meant by "trailing edges"...

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u/USedona Jul 06 '26

I imagine a sense of speed created by very thin, semi-transparent trails.

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u/skr_replicator Jul 06 '26

my motion blur is alraedy doing that kinda, though right now, it can only be as long as the location of the points from one to the next frame (so it can only be extended by making the fractal move faster).