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African Fractals
Culture 8: Mokoulek simulation

Simulation for Mokoulek (from the previous page). Iterations 1-4 allow us to see that the village as a whole spirals up from (or down to) the self-replicating line at center. This is about the same location as that of the square building, which is the village altar. It is the site of both religious and political authority; it is the location for rituals which generate cycles of agricultural fertility and ancestral succession. Again the self-generating geometic algorithm of the architecture reflects a self-generating concept of society. What happens if you change the angle of that self-replicating line?