Interactive Lab / The Heighway Dragon Curve
The Heighway Dragon Curve
★Cool Fact
Fold a strip of paper in half repeatedly, always the same way, then unfold every crease to a right angle — the silhouette is a finite approximation of this exact curve. Like the Koch curve, it also has a well-known L-system encoding, even though this page draws it the paper-folding way.
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