CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search A dragon curve is any member of a family of self-similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods such as Lindenmayer systems . 1 Heighway dragon 1.1 Construction 1.2 [Un]Folding the Dragon 1.2.1 Gray code method 1.3 Dimensions 1.4 Tiling 2 Twindragon 3 Terdragon 4 Lévy dragon 5 Occurrences of the dragon curve in solution sets 6 See also 7 Notes 8 External links Heighway dragon [ edit ] Heighway dragon curve The Heighway dragon (also known as the Harter–Heighway dragon or the Jurassic Park dragon ) was first investigated by NASA physicists John Heighway, Bruce Banks, and William Harter. It was described by Martin Gardner in his Scientific American column Mathematical Games in 1967. Many of its properties were first published by Chandle...