Agnes Scott College
Larry Riddle, Agnes Scott College

Four Symmetric Sierpinski Relatives

There are 8 symmetric Sierpinski relatives. The four videos below illustrates the construction of those symmetric relatives using just rotations (transformations 1, 2, 3, and 4) where the lower left piece is rotated by 180° (transformation 3).

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Relative 131

The IFS for relative 131 is

$$\begin{array}{l} {f_1}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0 \\ {0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_2}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_3}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ \end{array}$$


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Relative 234

The IFS for relative 234 is

$$\begin{array}{l} {f_1}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0} & -0.5 \\ 0.5 & {0} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0.5 \\ {0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_2}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_3}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0} & 0.5 \\ -0.5 & {0} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ \end{array}$$


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Relative 333

The IFS for relative 333 is

$$\begin{array}{l} {f_1}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0.5 \\ {1} \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_2}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_3}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {1} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ \end{array}$$


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Relative 432

The IFS for relative 432 is

$$\begin{array}{l} {f_1}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0} & 0.5 \\ -0.5 & {0} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0 \\ {1} \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_2}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {-0.5} & 0 \\ 0 & {-0.5} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0.5} \\ 0.5 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ {f_3}({\bf{x}}) = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {0} & -0.5 \\ 0.5 & {0} \\ \end{array}} \right]{\bf{x}} + \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {1} \\ 0 \\ \end{array}} \right] \\ \end{array}$$