Most people think they commonly see fractals in nature, when in actuality, they are very rare.
Fractals are a geometric pattern that are repeated at ever-smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. Notice how the pattern furthest to the left is then magnified which is then shown by the images to the right. No matter what range this fractal is viewed, it will still consist of the same design and pattern. The website mentioned above is a significant source to the understanding of fractals. Created by Mary Ann Connors from the mathematics and statistics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the website includes explanations of self-similar and geometric objects.