The purpose of choosing a fractal example from Lsman and combining it with some drawings from Wireman was to show the repetitive patterns in nature that can be shown through mathematical computation. We believe the concept of repetitive patterns in nature can readily be seen by using the fractal demonstrations presented in Lsman.
Students can then see how nature builds on a simple pattern.
If we had an active matrix LCD, we could show our movie to our classes and explain how we made it. By using several of the other examples provided for us, we believe the students would then have a better concept of both patterns in nature and the design of fractals. After downloading several separate movies from the CRAY, we used Scripting to combine them into one long movie.