Koch Snowflake

Ah, this reminds me — for a very long time there was a page called “The Sierpinski Triangle Page to End Most Sierpinski Triangle Pages” - which was a stunning tour de force, it seemingly went forever, covering every possible way to create, consider, discover, unveil or rediscover the Sierpinski triangle (and its many, many variants)

It was here:

https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm

Recently - in an internet mystery to end most internet mysteries - the page has gone off line.

I don’t know how to contact the author to provide assistance, care, anything that is needed.

There are copies in the archive.org - though I’m not sure the embedded code demo will work there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.often...

That was fun, kind of like a scientific american martin gardner column. When I was but a wee lad I would visit my grandfather who had a subscription (and actually read) Sci Am and he would share interesting things with me, and implement some of them on his early home computer. Those were lovely days.

I remember, back in my 20s, writing a Scheme program that output a PostScript program to draw a Koch snowflake. I was so chuffed to open it up in GhostScript and see it in all its glory.

The wikipedia links on every other word are hilarious.

infinite perimeter, finite area

I was worried this would be a political post :p