Visual continuity and coherence is one of those things that when it’s gone, you feel it but probably can’t articulate why everything seems weird and wrong and disconnected. it’s one of the reasons we aren’t comfortable in our own cities.
Self-similarity is why we instinctively like this image.
The quality of being ‘self-similar’ or ‘fractal’ means the whole has the same shape as one or more of the parts.
A fractal is a pattern that repeats forever, and every part of the Fractal, regardless of how zoomed in, or zoomed out you are, looks very similar to the whole image. Som…