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Fractal dimension

A simple random rule makes the Sierpiński gasket — how much of the plane does it fill?

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How the lab tests it

Run the chaos game (jump halfway to a random triangle corner), then box-count: cover the plane with boxes of side ε, count occupied boxes N(ε), and fit the slope of log N vs log(1/ε).

What it checks

the exact Hausdorff dimension D = log 3 / log 2 ≈ 1.585 (between a line and an area)

This is one world in the PHS lab — 91 interactive simulations, each posing a question and measuring the answer. See the catalogued findings.