Koch Anti-Snowflake

The Koch Anti-Snowflake is the Koch Snowflake turned inside out. It starts with the same triangle and uses the same rule: cut every line into thirds and replace the middle third with the two sides of a smaller triangle. The only difference is the direction. Here every new triangle points into the shape instead of out of it.

The result looks like three snowflake-shaped holes eating into a triangle from its sides. The boundary is exactly as long as the boundary of the snowflake, and grows by a factor of 43\frac{4}{3} with every step, so it is infinitely long in the limit. The area goes the other way. The snowflake grows to 85\frac{8}{5} of the starting triangle, while the anti-snowflake shrinks to 25\frac{2}{5} of it.

Each step replaces a line with 4 copies, each 13\frac{1}{3} as long, so the Hausdorff dimension is the same as for the snowflake:

D=ln⁡4ln⁡3≈1.26D = \frac{\ln 4}{\ln 3} \approx 1.26

The page draws it as an L-System with a turn angle of 60°60° and these rules:

const AXIOM = "F++F++F"; // triangle, drawn counterclockwise
const RULES = { F: "F+F--F+F" }; // spikes turn left, into the triangle

If you open the spike angle beyond 60°60° you get the Cesàro Fractal. For a square version of the same idea, see the Quadratic Snowflake.