To: visualops
Interesting, I played around a bit with fractals myself in university. Interesting thing about them is that you'd never really know what beauty hides inside those simple computations without the power of computer visualization.
Is that some kind of computer language? Awfully strange looking one, but not so much stranger than a densely written Perl prog full of regular expressions and pattern matching and special variables. Or LISP - never could quite get the hang of using recursion to do everything.
50 posted on
09/13/2003 7:47:13 PM PDT by
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To: -YYZ-
That's not a computer language, but a formula. Various formulas (sets of rules really) "grow" the 3-dimensional fractals. There's alot more to it than that of course. These are Lindenmayer-Systems string rewriting techniques developed by Astrid Lindenmayer in 1968 which can be used to model the morphology of a variety of organisms. The program I use is Laurens Laprés LSystem, which can export the fractals as DXF files that I can texture and render in other 3D programs.
54 posted on
09/14/2003 12:24:11 AM PDT by
visualops
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