1.C. Initiators and Generators
The Sierpinski gasket
The initiator is a filled-in triangle, the generator the shape on the right.
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Note with iteration, the shape appears to change less and less; there is a sense in which the shapes
converge to a limiting shape
.
This limiting shape is called the
Sierpinski gasket
.
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