Hmm, I’ve heard the term Fractal Image Encoding before, I think it’s got something to do with slicing images and then linking the different parts to pages or something like that.
A fractal is an image which stays the same at any level. Let me explain with an example
Take a mountain. Look at the general shape. Now imagine that you’re looking at a hill on that mountain..and that has the same shape too. Now look at a boulder on the hill..and imagine that it has the same shape. You keep going downwards - and all things have the same basic shape
Sounds crazy? Here’s a better example
Take a graph of the stock market over the last 100 years. Now, take a graph of the stock market over the last 10 years. You would see that they are mostly similar.
Fractals are easy to generate using computer programs - Mandelbrot and Julia fractals are the most famous. Fractals also play a part in chaos theory- as those who’ve read Jurassic Park would know