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7.2 Construction of fractals. Fractional dimension

Lecture



Consider the so-called. Cantor set and Sierpinski carpet. These sets have geometric invariance and are known as "sets of middle thirds". The segment of unit length [0, 1] is divided into three equal parts, and the middle of them, the interval (1/3, 2/3), is cut out. With each of the other segments do the same (Fig. 1).



  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
Fig. 1 Constructing the Cantor set.


We get a sequence of segments all decreasing in length. At the first stage we have one segment, at the second - two, at the third - four, on the kth - 2 k segments, 3 k in length. With k   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension we obtain a set of points, which is called a Cantor set. The total length of all cut segments is equal to one.

  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension .

The generalization of the Cantor set of middle thirds to the case of flat figures leads to the Serpinsky carpet.



  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
Fig. 2 Building a carpet Serpinskogo


Take a square with a side equal to one, and divide it into nine equal squares; during the first iteration (k = 1) we delete the central square; we will do the same with each of the remaining eight squares (k = 2), etc. (Fig. 2). Intersection obtained at k   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension The sets are the Sierpinski carpet. Cantor set, roughly speaking, is like "everywhere full of holes."

There is an important quantitative characteristic of the Cantor set - the fractional dimension. Consider some set A and try to completely cover it with segments, squares or hypercubes with a side   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension (Fig. 3). Let N be the minimum number of cubes or squares needed to cover A. Consider the limit

  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension . (one)

The value d (A) = dF is a metric dimension and is called the fractal dimension.



  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
Fig. 3 Coating an object (set of points) with cubes with a long edge   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension :
a) one-dimensional object, b) two-dimensional space.


Find the fractal dimension of a square with side 1. In order to close this square you must have (1 /   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension ) 2 squares with a side   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension . Therefore, d is equal to

  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension ,
as expected for the plane.

Find d for the Cantor set (Fig. 1). At the first splitting, it is necessary to have two segments 1/3 length to cover; for the second partitioning, four segments of length 1/9 are required, and generally, for the nth partitioning, it is necessary to have 2 n segments of length (1/3) n . So, the Cantor set consists of N = 2 n divided intervals of length (1/3) n each. Using the definition (1), we get

  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension .

Thus, the Cantor set is intermediate between a point (d = 0) and a line (d = 1), that is, it is a fractal.

Let us determine the fractal dimension of the Sierpinski carpet. We have at the first (k = 1) and subsequent partitions



k = 1 N = 8 = 8   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension = (1/3)   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
k = 2 N = 8 * 8 = 8   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension = (1/3)   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
k = 3 N = 8 * 8 * 8 = 8   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension = (1/3)   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
k = n N = 8 n   7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension = (1/3) n


from here
  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension

Consequently, the Sierpinski carpet is no longer a line with dimension 1, but also not a surface, the dimension of which is 2. It is something between the line and the surface. The most unexpected is the fact that in nature there are objects that represent an analogue of the Sierpinski carpet with dimension 1 <d <2. These are fractal aggregates of colloidal particles.

Consider now another classic fractal object - a snowflake. The snowflake has an infinite perimeter, although it bounds the end region of the plane. Take an equilateral triangle, divide each of its sides into three parts, and for each of the three central thirds we construct an equilateral triangle of smaller dimensions. Iterating this construction infinitely many times, we obtain a fractal object, sometimes called a Koch curve, whose dimension is d = ln4 / ln3 ~ 1.26 (Fig. 4).

  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension
Figure 4. Fractal object in the shape of a snowflake (Koch curve)


In a similar way you can build a lot of different fractals. We give some of them.



  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension


  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension


  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension


  7.2 Construction of fractals.  Fractional dimension

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