Análisis fractal de las catedrales góticas españolas

Abstract

Euclidean geometry, and especially "phi" and "pi" ratios, were used in Gothic buildings to give them structure, proportion and beauty. Moreover the euclidean elements there are complexes structures in Spanish Gothic Cathedrals: effectiveness to occupy space, roughness and amount of details that constitute its structures. The best tool to describe these ideas is available in Fractal geometry through the use of the so-called "fractal dimension" ratio. This is a geometric parameter, which provides a measure of these concepts. The ratio is not exclusively related with the euclidean elements, but instead it is also brought about by the final construction project of these cathedrals. In the present paper we prove that the Spanish Gothic Cathedrals do not only follow euclidean geometric patterns, but they also show another specific pattern dictated by their fractal dimension.