December 08, 2009

Fractal District

Mandelbrot Fractal

A fractal is a shape that is composed entirely of smaller versions of itself.  While glancing at a map of Shepherd Park yesterday, we discovered the shape of the District within the District.

The area is bounded by North Portal Drive (corresponding to Western Avenue), Rock Creek Park (corresponding to the Potomac), Alaska Avenue (corresponding to Southern Avenue), and Eastern Avenue (as itself).

Fractal- Shepherd Park

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  2. Hey very cool! The city of baltimore is shaped like the state of Maryland…. but I’m nto sure if this was on purpose or not!

    great blog by the way- just discovered it via dcmetrocentric.

    Tom A. - January 27, 2010 @ 9:25 am

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