Matrices Fractals.pdf - ncssm

“ I was highly interested in this lab from the beginning, because it mademath into something creative and artistic, and it also incorporatedtechnology in an innovative way…. After I create my own design, I had tofigure out how to make it mathematically possible, which made me thinkabout how math is all around us, even in ways we usually don’tacknowledge…, I was able to put it within the program and see howcomplex it could become, which was fascinating considering how simple itwas to enter the data.It was amazing to see how something so mathematically simple as a fewsquares rotated, translated, compressed, stretched, and entered into amatrix could become so complex, with multiple layers and much visualinterest. Furthermore, it made me think of the reiterations we did earlierin the year, and see a new, more creative use for such mathematics, asthis software simply reiterated the original design within each of thesquares it saw.”