Pentagonal-fractal-example.svg


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Description Three iterations of a simple pentagonal fractal, where a pentagon has smaller pentagons placed along each of its sides, recursively. For a variation of this (where the smaller pentagons are within the larger pentagon, not outside), see the top row of File:Pentagonal-fractals-3.svg .
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Self-made graphic, converted from a version of the following vector PostScript source code:

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