Voltaire Candide (I keep going back to this!)

I didn't put his name up here my colleague, Kerry, in Kenya, has come up with this great idea for using fractal structure for postal address in villages that have fractal structure, because if you try to impose a grid structure postal system on a fractal village, it doesn't quite fit.

I saw this diagram drawn by a French architect, and I thought, Wow! What a beautiful fractal!

So they're mapping the social scaling onto the geometric scaling it's a conscious pattern. It is not unconscious like a termite mound fractal.

Now, after I did the simulation, I realized the whole village kind of spirals around, just like this, and here's that replicating line a self replicating line that unfolds into the fractal.

'I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he d noticed in villages across the continent.