Watch a Barnsley fern and other cool patterns emerge from plotting random dice rolls on paper or onscreen. Mathematician Ben Sparks explains the chaos game with a few variants.
If that's your bag, you might also like Rob's post on the related Sierpinsky triangles.
Ben Sparks sat down with the folks and Numberphile to discuss some of his other interests:
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