The Heighway area should be .5 and the twindragon area should be 1. You can get them directly from the tiling polygons. Heighway: https://www.karzes.com/xfract/img/dragon.html Polygon: (0, 0) (.6, -.2) (1, 0) (.8, .4) (.2, .6) Area: .5 Twin: https://www.karzes.com/xfract/img/twindragon.html Polygon: (.2, -.4) (.8, -.6) (1.2, -.4) (.8, .4) (.2, .6), (-.2, .4) Area: 1 Tom Bill Gosper writes:
Wikipedia seems not to say. I wonder if expositors of "spacefilling curves" really feel in their gut that the space is filled. Or maybe they give the area, but Wikipedia censors it as "original research".
It's probably in Knuth & Davis, Number Representations and Dragon Curves, of which I have at least 2 copies and can find neither.
You can guess the answer if you believe the numbers pasted on Heighway Dragon triple point <http://gosper.org/dragtrip!.png>. But there's a direct approach. (Hint: AoCP II.) (Hint <http://gosper.org/basei-1.gif>)
The Dragon's image is dense with triple points and has uncountably many double points, but I think they have measure zero, and wouldn't affect the "area" if you counted them thrice and twice. —rwg