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Christmas bauble fractals

December 25, 2016

Christmas greetings! Take four shiny Christmas baubles and stack them in a tetrahedron arrangement. Look closely at the reflections where three balls touch, with a fourth ball behind the gap. Be amazed at the Wada Basin fractal patterns.

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