Is there a standard name for the fractal G that's the *boundary* of Bill Gosper's Flowsnake? I've been calling it "the map-of-France". Not sure where that originated, but it's kind of apt, since the actual map of France is hexagonalish and has a fractalish boundary. Omitting technical details: One way to define it is to start with the 2D regular hexagon H_0 in the complex plane C. Inductively, define H_(n+1) as a) First taking the union of 6 translated copies of the previous stage H_n, along with H_n itself, so that the center of one of them lies at 2+tau, where tau := exp(2pi*i/6) so they all fit snugly together. To complete this step, and then b) shrink this union of 7 copies of H_n by the effect of the function z |-> z/(2+tau). The result is H_(n+1). Then we define H_oo := lim H_n n->oo It's not too hard to show this actually converges in the Hausdorff metric on compact subsets of the plane. Finally, define the fractal G := bd(H_oo), the boundary of H_oo. It has the lovely property that a rosette of 7 translated copies of it fitting snugly together forms a magnified and rotate copy of H_oo, as the regular hexagon doesn't quite do. It's easy to see the Hausdorff measure d of G is the solution to sqrt(7)^d = 3, so d = log_7(9) = 1.1291500681.... QUESTION: Does G have an official name? --Dan