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Fractal: A form of pun in which a word, as part of another word, lends special significance when the larger word is used.
"He acts as if he had ants in his pants.
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I'm confusing this word with another. Isn't there an art-related word that is something like fractal? Must go check...
Yes. I thought it rang a bell. Here's the definition from geometry, and, by extension, you can imagine the kind of art created:
"A fractal is a set which is self-similar; fractals are repetitive in shape, but not in size. In other words, no matter how much you magnify a fractal, it will always look the same (or at least similar)." (Quick definition on onelook.com)
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Dear WW: not art, but mathematics, though when printed in color, they produce striking visual effects. There used to be a lot of such pictures seven or eight years ago. Maybe some are still available. Here's a URL: http://kosmoi.com/Science/Mathematics/Fractals/
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In reply to:
Dear WW: not art, but mathematics
wwh, did you read all of my post above?
I read your word 'fractal' and it rang a bell about a type of art I had seen about a year ago. So, I looked up the word fractal on onelook and there I read the definition applied to geometry. That confirmed my first impression about the art term. There is an art term website on which I first saw fractals. That type of art was derived from the geometry (or to use your term 'mathematics'). I'll see whether I can find the site I had visited a long time ago and pull up the works of art...
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