Creating Fractals

Roger T. Stevens - Collection Graphics series

304 pages, parution le 13/08/2005

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Everything You'll Need to Create Thousands of Fractals! Fractals are the name given to certain types of iterated equations that produce very strange results and are capable of creating unusual and beautiful patterns. Creating Fractals describes the characteristics and mathematical background of fractals and shows the reader how the accompanying fractal-generating program is used to produce thousands of different kinds of fractals, to enlarge them, to color them, and to save them-without any knowledge of computers or programming. The program works with any computer using Windows. In addition to producing artistic effects, the reader can gain an understanding of how each type of fractal is created and how it might be used to treat natural phenomena, e.g., the turbulence of liquids, the behavior of the stock market, and the compression of graphic images. Mathematical terminology is explained in elementary terms.

Features

Includes a fractal-generating program on the CD-ROM that is capable of producing and modifying thousands of fractals
Describes the mathematics (in elementary terms) involved in creating different types of fractals
The CD-ROM has over 100 example fractal images and includes all of their source code, permitting modification of the program to add new fractals, or change the program to meet specialized requirements

L'auteur - Roger T. Stevens

Stevens is a veteran graphics programmer and author of several books, including Graphics Programming with JAVA, 2E. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and resides in New Mexico.

Sommaire

Introduction
What are Fractals?
The Lorenz And Other Strange Attractors
What You Can Do With L-System Fractals
The Snowflake And Other Von Koch Curves
Peano Curves
Generators With Different Sized Line Segments
The Hilbert Curve
Fass Curves
Trees
Creating Your Own L-System Fractals
Newton's Method
What You Can Do With Mandelbrot-Like And Julia-Like Fractals
The Mandelbrot And Julia Sets
Working With Colors
Fractals With The Logistic Equation
Fractals Using Transcendental Functions
Fractals Using Orthogonal Polynomials
Creating Your Own Second-Order To Seventh-Order Equations
Phoenix Curves
The Mandela And Pokorny Fractals
Fractals Using Circles
Barnsley Fractals
Iterated Function Systems
Midpoint Displacement Fractals
About The CD-ROM
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Charles River Media
Auteur(s)	Roger T. Stevens
Collection	Graphics series
Parution	13/08/2005
Nb. de pages	304
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	811g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781584504238
ISBN13	978-1-58450-423-8