The most amazing thing about fractals is the variety of their applications. Besides theory, they were used to compress data in the Encarta Encyclopedia and to create realistic landscapes in several movies like Star Trek. The places where you can find fractals include almost every part of the universe, from bacteria cultures to galaxies to your body. In this section, we have picked out the most important applications, trying to include them from as many areas of science and every day life as possible. Most applications use a specific topic related to fractals that is discussed either in the tutorial or types of fractals. If you do not understand something, please follow links back to those sections and read about it first.