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Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences. It first appeared in art in the 19th century, at a painting of Mt. Fuji, which shows a great wave that threatens an open boat, wherein the dimension of the wave is the approximation of a circle’s diameter. This is an example of a natural fractal, way before Felix Hausdorff first presented the theory of the fractal dimension in 1868.[viii] They are used to incorporate nature into artistic elements and, thus, had been used to highlight pieces of visual arts. It became well known when genetic programming entered the world in the 20th century, which optimized parameters of what is called “Mandelbrot sets” that are useful in generating certain biomorphs.
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Tim Clearbrook (Order In Chaos: How The Mandelbrot Set & Fractal Geometry Help Unlock the Secrets of The Entire Universe! (Mandelbrot Set, Fractal Geometry))