human. (you, too?!?!)
By day, I’m a developer turned engineering manager working on all things quality at Stack Overflow. By night, you’ll find me studying patterns, systems, music, technology (ancient and modern), and connections across disciplines. And of course, living my best cool mom life. 😉
Sierpinski’s triangle has always been fascinating to me. And as I learned more about it, I found that there were multiple ways to create it. One that I found particularly interesting is called a “chaos game”. Here are the steps:
Mark three points in a plane to form a triangle Randomly select any point on the canvas as your starting position. Randomly select any one of the three vertex points. Move half the distance from your current position to the selected vertex. Mark the new position. Repeat steps 3 to 6.
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