Replying to: K. Jones-Smith & H. Mathur reply

Our use¹ of the term 'fractal'² is consistent with that by the research community. In dismissing Pollock's fractals^{1, 3} because of their limited magnification range, Jones-Smith and Mathur⁴ would also dismiss half the published investigations of physical fractals⁵. On the basis of previous debates on limited-range fractals^{5, 6}, a fractal description is particularly appropriate for Pollock's patterns because it is physically reasonable and because it is useful for condensing the description of a complex geometry, as we now describe.

1. Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
2. School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia

Correspondence to: R. P. Taylor¹ Email: rpt@uoregon.edu

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