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[Creis]

Mozirethes "Routglistened"
This is a perfect brown jasper. All craftsdwarvenship isof the highest quality.
On the item is an image of Routglistened the perfect brown jasper in Brown jasper.


I guess it looks like when you put a mirror in front of other 

[QuakeIV]

[Creis]

Hahahaha, yeah, something like that.

[Deimos56]

Mindshatter, an Artifact Fractal Sea Shell
This is an artifact fractal sea shell. It menaces with spikes of Mindshatter the artifact fractal sea shells. It is encircled with bands of menacing spikes of Mindshatter the artifact fractal sea shells. On the item is an image of Mindshatter the artifact fractal sea shell in Mindshatter the artifact fractal sea shell.

[Jualin]

I just hope if artifacts ever get programmed with any other bonuses that being very valuable and deadly (if a weapon), being fractal will be among those bonuses (even if only on a random basis).

[Aachen]

Given the mention of "plus-to-damage" and "plus-to-value," what exactly would a fractal-bonus be? Extra extra?

[Doomshifter]

Given the mention of "plus-to-damage" and "plus-to-value," what exactly would a fractal-bonus be? Extra extra?

You lose d10 sanity points upon seeing it.

[piecewise]

Hmmm a fractal in real life would be an interesting concept. Since it would stretch infinitely down in detail you think it would also be infinite in mass since, despite being unimaginably small, the details are infinite. So it would be more like

Urist McMandelbrot has completed a construction!

Your fortress has collapsed into a singularity!

Or, if you want to do something more fun

Urist McLangford has completed a Mysterious construction!

[Doomshifter]

So, what you're saying is, a true, real life fractal would be grounds for a /0?

[zwei]

Hmmm a fractal in real life would be an interesting concept. Since it would stretch infinitely down in detail you think it would also be infinite in mass since, despite being unimaginably small, the details are infinite.

In related news, Achilles can never out-run turtle.

[Fictionpuss]

Hmmm a fractal in real life would be an interesting concept. Since it would stretch infinitely down in detail you think it would also be infinite in mass since, despite being unimaginably small, the details are infinite.

Think of it like Zeno's arrow paradox.  If the mass of the first component of the fractal is 0.5 and its sub-component is 0.25, etc - in other words half of the original mass each time - you are adding up an infinite series which starts 0.5, 0.25, 0.125, 0.0625,...  In that instance the mass would never reach 1, although it would continue to approach it with every additional term to the sum.

EDIT - a link is probably more useful.

[Simmura McCrea]

By the maths of geometric sequences, assuming each part was half the mass of the one before, and the first part weighed 1 kilo, it would weigh 2 kilos in total.

[Dabi]

By the maths of geometric sequences, assuming each part was half the mass of the one before, and the first part weighed 1 kilo, it would weigh 2 kilos in total.

Urge to kill rising..

[Virex]

By the maths of geometric sequences, assuming each part was half the mass of the one before, and the first part weighed 1 kilo, it would weigh 2 kilos in total.

You'd also end up with an infinit surface and as a result an infinit amount of surface energy. Since mass and energy are interchangable, according to Einstein, you still end up with infinit mass.

[CursedBurger]

You'd also end up with details on a subsubatomic scale, raising the question of what the details are made of.