Koch snowflake
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fractal and mathematical curve
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- plane figure
- Named after
- Helge von Koch
- Image
- Von Koch curve.gif
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- Commons category
- Koch curves
- Commons gallery
- Koch snowflake
- discoverer or inventor
- Helge von Koch
- time of discovery or invention
- 1904-00-00
- has characteristic
- arc length
- different from
- snowflake
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
The first four iterations of the Koch snowflake The first seven iterations in animation Zooming into a vertex of the Koch curve Zooming into a point that is not a vertex may cause the curve to rotate.
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koch snowflake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.