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paint between two surfaces and pulling them apart. Fractals are also prevalent in African art and architecture. Circular houses appear in circles of circles, rectangular houses in rectangles of rectangles, and so on. Such scaling patterns can also be found in African textiles, sculpture, and even cornrow hairstyles. In a 1996 interview David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of his novel Infinite Jest was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle. The song "Hilarious Movie of the 90's" from Pause (album) by the artist Four Tet employs the use of fractals. As described above, random fractals can be used to describe many highly irregular real-world objects. Other
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Applications
applications of fractals include:
* Fractal landscape or Coastline complexity
* Enzyme/enzymology (Michaelis-Menten kinetics)
* Generation of new music
* Signal and image compression
* Creation of digital photographic enlargements
* Seismology
* Fractal in soil mechanics
* Computer and video game design, especially computer graphics for organic environments and as part of procedural generation
* Fractography and fracture mechanics
* Fractal antennas – Small size antennas using fractal shapes
* Small angle scattering theory of fractally rough systems
* T-shirts and other fashion
* Generation of patterns for camouflage, such as MARPAT
* Digital sundial
* Technical analysis of price series (see Elliott wave principle)