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One of the earliest observations of fractal behavior of boundary lines was carried out by Richardson, although it was published obscurely (Richardson 1961). Driven by an interest in finding relationships between the economic and military conflict between nations and the length of their borders, Richardson tried to measure these lengths from maps. But he quickly discovered that the perimeter lengths varied markedly depending on the scale of the map, regardless of the care he took in performing the measurement.
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Russ, J.C. (1994). Measuring the Fractal Dimension of Boundary Lines. In: Fractal Surfaces. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2578-7_2
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