Centre College freshman Molly Holder plans to major in Mathematics and is set on a pre-med course as she embarks on her upper education in her Danville, Kentucky school. Holder designed a unique mathematical piece in her "Chaos and Fractals" class, after learning how fractals have many applications both in and outside the realm of mathematics. In the pursuit of learning about fractals, Holder's class, taught by Dr. James Kelly, spent the second half of each class in a computer lab learning to code and plot fractals and other figures. This plotting led to work in Matlab and the creation of an .stl file, which was printed on a Formlabs Form 1+ 3D printer, with about a 2-hour total print time. Check out more details on the math and experience in the full article: http://3dprint.com/38266/3d-printed-fractals/


Below is a look at the 3D printed fractal: