I think they are "symmetric icons" : http://www.alunw.freeuk.com/symiconroom.htm... | Hacker News

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		gilleain on Feb 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Datashader: turns even the largest data into image... I think they are "symmetric icons" : http://www.alunw.freeuk.com/symiconroom.html Can't remember where I've seen them before - possibly in a book on Symmetry.

jbednar on Feb 11, 2019 [–]

Yes, those are symmetric icons, a type of attractor. See http://datashader.org/topics/strange_attractors.html for all the details.

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