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Space-filling Curve

Illustration of Sierpiński’s space-filling curve in two dimensions. It is a mapping

SFC:R+[0;1]×[0;1],

completely fill the unit square. More precisely this is true in the limit k, where k is the order of the curve. The animation shows the curve for k=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. The length of the curve grows expenentially.