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Hunting the Hidden Dimension
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The following resources from the companion Web site accompany this program:
Watch Online
Watch the entire program online after the broadcast date.
(Quicktime or Windows Media required.) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
A Radical Mind
Find out in this interview why the father of fractals disdains rules, why he considers himself a philosopher, and what he thinks some applications for fractal geometry are. (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
The Most Famous Fractal
Learn the details of how the Mandelbrot set is created in this excerpt from John Brigg's book Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos. (Grades 9-12)
Design a Fractal
Create and save your own fractal images using this online interactive. (Flash-plug-in required.) (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
A Sense of Scale
Explore in this interactive the infinite detail of a Mandelbrot set and see fractal's self-similar nature as you zoom to 250,000,000x magnification. (Flash-plug-in required; printable version available.) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
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