Golden Ratio Dragon Fractal (figured it out)

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The user successfully created the Golden Ratio Dragon Fractal using MS Excel after initially struggling with it. However, they encountered limitations due to Excel's precision, resulting in gaps in the fractal's major portions. The user managed to iterate the fractal 18 times, but faced significant performance issues, including multiple crashes during calculations. They questioned whether using different ratios, such as 1.7 or 1.5, would significantly alter the fractal's appearance. The discussion highlights the challenges of fractal generation with limited software capabilities.
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Back in november I asked the forum about this fractal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phi_glito.png

At the time I couldn't figure out how to make it.

Since then I've figured it out. I used MS Excel.

pyUJR5e.gif


I'm not completely satisfied though. There are some gaps between the major portions of the fractal that I'm pretty sure are a result of the limited precision of Excel. I'm not so good with coding, so I just brute forced it with the only program i know well.

Also, I was only able to iterate the fractal 18 times. My laptop was struggling hard to iterate the final step and even failed several times to do so. Excel crashed like 4 times in the middle of calculating. So i think a 19th is out of the question given my limited abilities.

Hi resolution:
http://i.imgur.com/lKXzIBH.jpg
 
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