Nature has given us beautiful landscapes. The Himalayas, Grand Canyon, Big Basin in California, The Dandenong Ranges of Australia. Such magnificent landscapes serve to remind us of the gift that nature has endowed. The concrete landscape in their overbearing forms of skyscrapers and shopping malls are allowed to dominate our visual perception of landscape. The introduction of fractals will open our eyes to new awareness, allowing us to see what was always there but overlooked.
Fractals are simple, yet complicated.
They help explain the irregular, broken yet patterned aspects of the real physical world. It entered popular culture through A. K. Dewdney s article in August 1985 Scientific American . On a large scale, it does not appear to be self-similar. Pursuant to this concept of self-similarity, we turn to look at the natural landscapes around us. If you approach the profile from the east, you will notice similar terrain as if you had approached it from the west.