Is there such a thing as a fractal coordinate system? Are there CAD systems that can generate fractal meshes for example, with cauliflower-floret shaped cells, and turn a 3D scan on a cauliflower into a set of addressable locations like “Floret 3, subfloret 7...”)?
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Semi related my wife just said “cauliflower is perfect because some people want more than others and comes out that way”. Hedghog, Fox, or something more sinister?
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In CS terms wouldn't that be equivalent to a method of indexing an ordered tree? Index representing which branch to take at each level of the hierarchy
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Gonna go out on a limb and say no
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On second thought, particle physics is exactly that
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Iterated function systems have been around for a while, and have been implemented as modules/plugins for numerous applications, IIRC.
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Related question, can anything do this in reverse, given a volumetric scan?
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One could come up with a spatial tesselation based on wavelets. Multi resolution analyses are like the wavelet analogs of Fourier decompress, done on say a geometric object.
I suspect by this point math people who do wavelet based work may already have such coordinate systems..
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