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Fractal Pizza

Is three the magic number of iterations for fractal foodstuffs?  While perhaps slightly less elegant than the Sierpiński cookies, this recursively-constructed pizza makes a valiant effort:

Fractal Pizza

The bottom layer is a conventional pizza crust topped with sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives and smaller pizzas.  These smaller pizzas use English muffins as crusts, a similar array of toppings, and smaller pizzas built on corn chips.  While I admire the creators’ stated desire to achieve a 10-iteration pizza, I think they will have some serious logistical challenges making it past five or six.

Tasty, Tasty Fractals: Sierpiński Cookies

Edible Fractals: Evil Mad Scientists' Sierpinski Cookies

Edible Fractals: Evil Mad Scientist Labratories' Sierpinski Cookies

Recipes are often cited as an example of algorithms encountered in everyday life, but Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have taken this a step further with their iterative process for producing these tasty-seeming cookies in the pattern of a Sierpiński carpet.

Sadly, they only take the process to the third iteration.  I have to assume this is a limitation of the floury medium as they have another post with some stupendous seven-iteration Fimo Sierpiński triangles.