# 3 dimensional Fractals
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 10, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723 "2002-10-10T21:17:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/1 "2002-10-10T21:17:28Z")
But the real question becomes, is a missing OP a 0-dimensional fractal?
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/2 "2002-10-10T21:55:41Z")
Of course, a fractal is a shape with fractional (Hausdorff, IIRC) dimension. So if it’s 3-dimensional, it ain’t a fractal.
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### Author:  [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/3 "2002-10-10T22:19:20Z")
Maybe you’ve just answered the OP…
I use cloud and noise textures in 3D space at work that can look like ‘3D’ fractals when the camera moves or geometry swims through them.
I’ve called them fractals before - Perhaps the OP was referring to them.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/4 "2002-10-10T22:39:31Z")
What the OP probably had in mind was structures that have a dimension between two and three.
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### Author:  [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/5 "2002-10-10T22:41:54Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by \*\*\*ftg \*\*
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> But the real question becomes, is a missing OP a 0-dimensional fractal?
You’ve got a point there, **ftg**.
I’ll close this and invite **CuriousCanuck** to repost. We apologize for the inconvenience.
**DrMatrix** - General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-dimensional-fractals/131723/6 "2002-10-10T22:42:16Z")
Damn… I didn’t realize that it posted blank. OK… here was my question: I am curious…
I was reading on a physics site that a 3 dimensional fractal has a Zero volume. How can this be? And while we are on the subject, what is meant when it is said that a 3D fractal really is not 3d, it is more like 2.5d.
Physicists?
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