This document provides an overview of fractals, including: - Fractals demonstrate self-similarity and scaling symmetry where they appear the same at different levels of magnification. - There are two categories of fractals - those occurring in nature like trees, ferns, mountains, clouds, and bacterial colonies, and mathematical constructions like the Koch curve, Sierpinski gasket, and Mandelbrot set. - Natural fractals only exhibit self-similarity over a limited range of scales and tend to be roughly rather than exactly self-similar, while mathematical fractals can have perfect self-similarity over infinite scales.