Flowsnakes

These are IFSs in which the elements are laid out in the form of a regular hexagon, and the overall attractor approaches a hexagon as the number of elements approach infinity. Each element is rotated by 30° with respect to the overall figure. The first order flowsnake is the cyclohexamermonomer or Peano-Gosper curve. For each n there are cis- and trans- variants. The nth order flowsnake has 3n2 + 3n + 1elements, each of which is rotated by arctan(nsin(60)/(1+1.5n))

cis 1st order flowsnake, cis-cyclohexamermonomer, Peano-Gosper curvetrans 1st order flowsnake, trans-cyclohexamermonomer

cis 2nd order flowsnaketrans 2nd order flowsnake

cis 3rd order flowsnaketrans 3rd order flowsnake

cis 4th order flowsnaketrans 4th order flowsnake

cis 5th order flowsnaketrans 5th order flowsnake

Source: All are independently discovered, except that the angle by which the elements of the cis 1st order flowsnake are rotated was derived from an L-system construction given in Scientific American.