Nesting fractal tikz decorations (Koch snowflake)

Question

I am trying to come up with some code to allow the use of a decoration (for example the Koch snowflake from decorations.fractals) where you provide a single parameter to determine how many times to decoration is applied (in a nested way). I have tried to use a pic, as outlined below, but it comes up with an errors to do with the decorator either having an empty argument or not being followed by a brace:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.fractals}

\begin{document}
\newcommand{\koch}[1]{
    \foreach \i in {1,...,#1}{decorate\{}
    (0,0)--(1,0)
    \foreach \i in {1,...,#1}{\}};
}

\tikzset{pics/koch/.style={decoration={Koch snowflake}
        code={\draw \koch{#1}}
    }
} 
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \path (0,0) pic {koch=4};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

I have tried a few variations on this (it says \pic is undefined) this code is saying that \tikz@parabola is undefined and the error seems to be between the i and c of pic (that is where the error message splits).

What I want in the end is some code so that I can do something like

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw (0,0) \koch{4};
  \draw (0,1) \koch{3};
\end{tikzpicture

To get the 3rd and 4th iterations of the Koch decorator on an interval. Even better I suppose would be to have something to pass a decorator and a number to so you can choose different fractal decorators to use.

Answer 1

Not quite the required answer but how about a Lindenmayer system instead?

\documentclass[tikz, border=5]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{lindenmayersystems}

\tikzset{koch snowflake/.style={insert path={%
   l-system [l-system={rule set={F -> F-F++F-F}, axiom=F++F++F,
    step=0.75cm/3^#1, angle=60, order=#1,anchor=center}] -- cycle}}}

\begin{document}
\tikz
  \foreach \i in {0,...,4}
    \fill (0,\i) [koch snowflake=\i] node [text=white, font=\sf] {\i}; 

\end{document}

Answer 2

With

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.fractals}

The loop

\def\deco{(C) -- (B) -- (A) --cycle}% "path at 0 decorations"
\let\decorationlist=\empty% create List
\foreach \n  in {1,...,\NoIterations}
{
  \ifx\empty\decorationlist{} \xdef\decorationlist{\deco}%
  \else \xdef\deco{decorate{\deco}} \xdef\decorationlist{\decorationlist,\deco}%
  \fi
}

produces

 (C) – (B) – (A)
–cycle ,decorate (C) – (B) – (A) –
cycle ,decoratedecorate (C) – (B) –
(A) –cycle ,decoratedecoratedecorate
(C) – (B) – (A) –cycle

This may be sth. of a brute-force method, but it works.

%\documentclass[margin=5pt, tikz]{standalone}
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.fractals}
\begin{document}
\section{Simple Example}
\begin{tikzpicture}[decoration=Koch snowflake]
\coordinate (A) at (0,0);
\coordinate (B) at (3,0);
\coordinate (C) at (60:3);
\draw[] (A) -- (B) -- (C) --cycle; 
\draw[transform canvas={shift={(3.2,0)}}]  decorate{ (C) -- (B) -- (A) --cycle};
\draw[transform canvas={shift={(6.4,0)}}]  decorate{ decorate{ (C) -- (B) -- (A) --cycle} };
\end{tikzpicture}
%\newpage
\section{More systematic}
\pgfmathsetmacro\a{4.0}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\NoIterations{6}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\cols{3}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\Cols{\cols-1}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\Rows{ceil(\NoIterations/\cols)-1}
%\subsection{Info: cols: \cols, Cols: \Cols, Rows: \Rows}
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}[decoration=Koch snowflake,
]
\coordinate (A) at (0,0);
\coordinate (B) at (\a,0);
\coordinate (C) at (60:\a);
\def\deco{(C) -- (B) -- (A) --cycle}% "path at 0 decorations"
\let\decorationlist=\empty% create List
\foreach \n  in {1,...,\NoIterations}
{
  \ifx\empty\decorationlist{} \xdef\decorationlist{\deco}%
  \else \xdef\deco{decorate{\deco}} \xdef\decorationlist{\decorationlist,\deco}%
  \fi
}
%\node[text width=6cm] at (0,-15) {Show decorationlist: \decorationlist};
\newcounter{mypos}
\setcounter{mypos}{-1}
\foreach \y in {0,...,\Rows} {
\foreach \x in {0,...,\Cols} {
\stepcounter{mypos}
\pgfmathsetmacro\Showcoord{\themypos < \NoIterations ? \themypos : ""}
\coordinate[label=left:{\Showcoord}] (Coord-\themypos) at (1.2\a\x,-1.2\a\y);
%\node[red, right] at (Coord-\themypos) {\x,\y};
}} 
%\draw[] (Coord-1) circle[radius=\a];
\foreach[count=\n from 0] \decorationset in \decorationlist {
%\node[blue, below] at (Coord-\n){ABC};
\draw[transform canvas={shift={(Coord-\n)}}] \decorationset;

}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}