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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0752.00058.] In Part 1, Space Filling Bearings, the study is concentrated just on the existence and construction of the space-filling self-similar bearings and presents their geometrical properties. The space-filling packings with only fourfold loops in which each disc rotates sliplessly on its neighbors do exist. There are two facilities of regular solutions each spanned by two integer parameters. The packings are fractal or multifractal. In Part 2, Damage Spreading, cellular automata are presented. Cellular automata are dynamical systems with many discrete degrees of freedom. In models with a tunable parameter one can find a transition between a frozen phase, in which the damage (or ``error'') heals and a chaotic phase, in which the damage spreads to infinity. The crucial idea in order to study damage spreading in thermal Monte Carlo simulations is therefore to apply on the two configurations the same sequence of random numbers in the Monte Carlo algorithm. The Glauber dynamics is applied on two- dimensional Ising model. In this article the author has tried to exhibit some of the elegance of fractals by considering two relevant examples: one deterministic, the other random.