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Thue-Morse slice

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A 2-D slice through a symmetry plane of the Thue-Morse sequence extended to 3-D. Seventh generation, 128x128x128.

This corresponds to the plane centered on, and orthogonal to, a long diagonal of the Thue-Morse cube.

Ted Bell showed me another way to make this pattern, with a triangular replacement system: it can be considered as the Thue-Morse sequence on a triangular tesselation.


The long range self-similar structure of the Thue-Morse pattern is more easily seen in this slice than in the 2-D square system's pattern. Notice the slightly lighter/darker trapezoids that repeat at different scales; it is a discrete similarity tiling.

Download for 1500 x 1300 px. version.

System and code. Modeled and rendered with MATLAB and Space Software, respectively.


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karlgreifenklau's avatar
hmm i guess some connection with the multinomial coeff