6 Ways to Expand Your Mind at the Math Museum

This exhibit uses software that takes a picture of you and then replaces each of your arms with a copy of your body. And on each of those copies, the arms are replaced by tinier copies of your image, and so on, creating a fractal tree.

"A fractal is a shape or pattern that repeats on a smaller scale within itself, and within that a smaller scale, so that there's detail down to the tiniest level," Glen Whitney, MoMath's founder, said during a tour. The human fractal tree takes on all kinds of shapes as you swing your arms around. Its pattern is governed by the same rules that influence the shapes of real trees, snail shells, and frost crystals.

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