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I accidentally generated the Sierpinski Triangle when I was debugging a k-tree’s XOR space (I think I was using XOR with the distance function but I’d have to review the test case to be more exact). I wanted to visualize what was happening to the values and generated a bitmap of the coordinates translated to XOR space — it created this fractal. I might have some specifics wrong (it was a while ago) but the fractal popped out and I found it very interesting.

Seeing it used to generate music is also interesting. I enjoyed it as a curiosity and it reminded me of my own encounter with the fractal. Not sure where the hate comes from, it is really a fascinating sound.

If it was expanded into something musical, I would no doubt enjoy where that music takes me.




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