Fractals02 of 113
Heighway dragon
Heighway, Harter and Banks, 1966
Fold a strip of paper in half, again and again, then open every fold to a right angle: the edge traces this curve. Watch it unfold here, one fold per level. Four copies turned about a point tile the plane.
Pₙ₊₁ = Pₙ ∪ R₉₀°(Pₙ) about its last point
On mathcurve.com as Courbe du dragon
Elsewhere
1Work the library cites and does not hold: in copyright, never released as a file, or not a file at all. The cited shelf
- 1990
Each section of the novel opens with a further iteration of the dragon curve, under Ian Malcolm’s lines about how a system turns unpredictable.
Not yet checkedSuggested by an AI model, 2026-10-08
An AI reviewer had doubts, 2026-10-09: The holder's page confirms the dragon curve is on the section title pages, since "It appeared on the section title pages of the Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park." Nothing in the evidence says each section shows a further iteration or that the curves sit under Ian Malcolm's lines, so the note claims more than the texts show.