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Fractal Metal Zinc-Trees

Diffusion-Limited or Ballistic Aggregation?

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With the publication of his book “The fractal geometry of nature” in 1977, which was soon translated into other languages, Benoit B. Mandelbrot succeeded in making his ideas of objects with a broken dimension (or fractional dimension) known to a wide audience.

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Plath, P.J. (2022). Fractal Metal Zinc-Trees. In: Imagery Synergetics. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95607-3_5

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