How does the dragon curve work?

The Heighway dragon is constructed by replacing a line segment with two segments at 45°. If the angle between the line segments is less than 45° then a different dragon curve will be formed. If we let the angle grow from 0° to 45°, we can watch the Heighway dragon being born. See the animation.

Why is it called a dragon curve?

A dragon curve is a recursive nonintersecting curve whose name derives from its resemblance to a certain mythical creature. s instead of 0s (Allouche and Shallit 2003, p. 155). A recurrence plot of the limiting value of this sequence is illustrated above.

What is dragon method?

The DRAGONS formula is Dialogue, Relatability, Authenticity, Giving Value, Opinion, and Niche. These are the six most important elements for any social media strategy.

Who invented dragon curve?

physicist John E. Heighway
The classical Dragon curve, discovered by physicist John E. Heighway, is the curve that results when a sheet of paper is folded in half, then folded in half again, and again, etc. and is then unfolded in such a way that each crease created by the folding process is opened out into a 90-degree angle.

Who created the dragon curve?

John Heighway
The dragon curve fractal has the shape of a giant dragon, but it’s made up of one line that bends back and forth, which creates what looks like a bunch of boxes. The dragon curve fractal was invented in 1966 by John Heighway and William Harter. Heighway and Harter were both NASA scientists.

What is the dragon curve in geometry?

The dragon curve is a space filling curve with dimension 2 which originally came from the repeated folding of a long stripe of paper [4]in the same direction. After pleating the paper, it is then unfolded with each adjacent segments of paper formed into a right angle.

How do you make a dragon curve?

The dragon curve is also known as Harter-Banks-Heighway curve or Jurassic Park curve. We’re generating it using L-system rules but another way to generate it by using a paperfolding sequence. You can change the color of the curve and its background and set the width and height of the space that curve fills.

What is the fractal dimension of a dragon curve?

As a non-self-crossing space-filling curve, the dragon curve has fractal dimension exactly 2. For a dragon curve with initial segment length 1, its area is 1/2, as can be seen from its tilings of the plane.

What is this dragon curve fractal math + art steam activity?

This dragon curve fractal math + art STEAM activity is part of our Magic Tree House book activity series based on the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne . This activity is a great way to pair a STEAM concept with book number fourteen, Day of the Dragon King.