Fractals

 

I coined fractal from the Latin adjective fractus. The corresponding Latin verb frangere means "to break" to create irregular fragments. It is therefore sensible - and how appropriate for our need ! - that, in addition to "fragmented" (as in fraction or refraction), fractus should also mean "irregular", both meanings being preserved in fragment.

B. Mandelbrot  : The fractal Geometry of Nature (W.H. Freeman)

 

     

If you are not familiar with fractals, you might want some basic information on these images. Otherwise you can directly look up my own collection.
 

   plan    The discovery of fractals
Basic information
on fractals		    Links (updated: 01/06/2003)
Fractal Dimension    My fractal album
The colours of fractals    Come back to the home page
 
When I  published the first pages of this site, most of the images were rather original, compared to what was generally made at the time. Most creators go on this way now and show spectacular images in the alt.binaries.pictures.fractals group or in their web pages. I have tried to cite some remarkable sites from the Web. The level of the fractal output has risen greatly and powerful programs have appeared. Some of the images which are in my first pages would not deserve to be shown now but I keep them for the moment as a token of a first step.
So I suggest to leaf these pages starting with the last ones.
  Pictures of pages 1 to 9, 13 and 14 were obtained with Fractint, which was for a long time the most well-known program existing on PCs. Some more recent programs allow to get results which are difficult or impossible to obtain with Fractint (for example images with more than 256 colours). Images of pages 10 to 12 were created with Fractal Orbits (Phil Pickard's program). Pages 15 to 19, 24 and 25 show fractals made with various versions of Terry W. Gintz's true colour program which successive names were Zplot, Fractal Elite, Dreamer, Dofo-Zon and Fractal Zplot. I have used Stephen Ferguson's program TieraZon for the fractals of pages 20 and 21.Images of pages 25 to 29 have been created with Ultra Fractal. Finally pages 30 and 31 show what it is possible to obtain with Mind-Boggling Fractals, the Paul Carlson's program

I would like to thank all of you who have encouraged me when I began to show fractals in the abpf group, and later in these pages, as well as Phil, Terry and Stephen who have, with great patience, listened to the suggestions (not always relevant) that I have made about their programs.
 

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