All of the images and videos on this website visually depict fractals. One can immediately see that they have regions that are similar but different. To me, that is the way humans are; each one of us has a similar physical makeup and personality, but also we are each uniquely different.

Fractals, with their repeating patterns at different scales, offer a visual representation of interconnectedness. The Mandelbrot set, for example, reveals complex networks where seemingly insignificant actions can have far-reaching consequences, similar to the “butterfly effect.” This can be applied to human behavior, where individual actions can coalesce into larger societal trends, highlighting the interconnectedness of individual and collective actions.

Fractals were chosen as a part of the term “fractegrity” for two reasons. Just as fractals exhibit self-similarity at all scales, so can the elements of integrity. Integrity can exist at all scales — personal, community, state or province, nation, and world. These levels of integrity are all interconnected and interdependent. In the Mandelbrot set (the most famous fractal, named after Benoit Mandelbrot) , the black pixels (those numbers within the set, usually depicted as black) are all interconnected at all scales, no matter how far apart they are. To me, this is similar to the interconnected nature of all of life as we know it.