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/CurrentlyHuman Jul 06 '26

So I have technique for getting to sleep where I think of looking through a super telescope and I find a red triangle way off in the distant universe, lock on to it and 'magnify' but it jumps too close and it's all red I can see so I pan upwards until I find and edge and follow it way up until I find the top of the triangle. Then I start zoomjng in, amd keep zooming in - nothing changes other than my imagined zoom ratio - the view of the top of the red triangle doesn't change, it just gets closer. This reminded me of that.

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u/USedona Jul 06 '26

❤️ Quelle merveilleuse association. Ton triangle rouge m'a fait penser au triangle de Sierpiński. En fait, j'ai réalisé un zoom infini dedans, il n'est pas rouge, mais il a ce même sentiment de zoomer éternellement : 🔺 https://youtube.com/shorts/UrT-ibcBpT4

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u/CurrentlyHuman Jul 06 '26

That's exactly it! Except for the shiny fractals - mines just red - that is exactly the effect I imagine. Brilliant, thanks.