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All kinds of links to resources for learning about fractals
Explorer's Post 631 Fractals Learning Ideas for 2005-2006
- New Stuff
- http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/92a.shtml - best site to learn about fractals
- http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/94.shtml - great gallery
- Mac OS X Fractal stuff
- http://www.fractaldomains.com/html/sites.html - gallery
- http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/ - best for high school
- http://thinks.com/java/fractree/fractree.htm - Java fractal tree
- http://www.mrob.com/pub/muency.html - new good site
- http://members.ozemail.com.au/~davesag/snd.html - fractal music
- http://www.aliceia.de/art/fractal/fractal00.htm - nice gallery of art
- http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~cahalan/FractalClouds/Movies/Movies.html - fractal clouds
- http://cs.unm.edu/~joel/PaperFoldingFractal/paper.html - paper folding fractals
- http://www.fractalus.com/info/layman.htm
good layman's description of fractals
- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/grandcanyon/ - natural fractals in Grand Canyon
- http://xaos.sourceforge.net/english.php - new fractal app - free!
- http://www.ultrafractal.com/purchase.html - very popular but not free - "The program I am using the most right now is Ultra Fractal (screen shot shown above). This program allows the user to create multi-layered fractals within the program. It has extensive help files, and there are many resources on the Ultra Fractal web site, such as tutorials and a mailing list you can join"
- http://www.chaospro.de/
- Chaos Pro - free
- http://www.aswsoftware.com/products/msplotter/msplotter.shtml - supposedly good free Windows app
- http://www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer/ Fractal Explorer - free and looks impressive
- http://www.fractalfairy.com/~feusers/tutorials/landscapes/index.html - Fractal landscapes
- http://www.fractalfairy.com/~feusers/tutorials/fe_tutorial/index.html - fractal tutorial
- http://www.fractal-landscapes.com/ - fractal landscapes
- http://ericbigas.com/fractals/ - fractal zoom movies
- http://www.gimp.org/ - GIMP has a fractal plugin
- http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winfeed.html ???
- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Software.html Awesome set of links to fractal stuff ( more at http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Links.txt)
- American Heritage Dictionary
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frac·tal (frâk´tël) n. A geometric pattern that is repeated at ever
smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be
represented by classical geometry. Fractals are used especially in
computer modeling of irregular patterns and structures in nature.
[French, from Latin fractus, past participle of frangere, to break. See
FRACTION.] - http://ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~lriddle/ifskit/index.htm IFS Construction Kit can be used to design and draw fractals based on iterated function systems. Here is what you can make with it http://ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~lriddle/ifs/ifs.htm
- http://www.apophysis.org/ - interesting fractal app with tutorials
- http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?Start=1&Sectionid=0&Form.Search=Apophysis&Form.Criteria=ALL
Incredible fractals !!!
- http://www.fractalus.com/cheshirecat/ - ??
- http://www.electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=samples - gallery
- http://skal.planet-d.net/quat/How.ang.html - 4d fractals
- http://www.xenodream.com/mainindex.htmnot cheap but awesome
- http://home.houston.rr.com/fergusonsc/Tierazon-v29/ -looks complicated
- http://www.eclectasy.com/Iterations-et-Flarium24/fractal_videos/index.html - fractal videos
- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/1195/gallery1.html - galleries
- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/1195/gallery1.html - interactive plotting of newtons' method
- http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fracthumbs.htm - gallery
- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~stilti/images/chaotic_attractors/nav.html - gallery
- http://www.math.union.edu/research/fractaltrees/FractalTreesAnim.html - Animations of fractal trees
- http://www.math.union.edu/research/fractaltrees/FractalTreesAnim.html - Fractal tree applet
- http://www.batchconverter.com/TreeGenerator-download-6256.shtml -Windows fractal tree gen
- http://www.batchconverter.com/VirtualFlower-download-990.shtml - Windows fractal tree gen
- http://www.coolmath4teachers.com/links_fractals.htm - links for teachers
- Look at sci.fractals
- http://www.math.sunysb.edu/dynamics/programs/index.html Here you will find a list of different programs to aid in the generation of pictures associated to different dynamical processes.
- http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/827 Review of Linux fractal programs.
- Mailing lists Or these EMail Discussion Lists: FRACTAL-ART, The Fractal Art Discussion List Subscribe: fractal-art-subscribe@lists.fractalus.com Posts: fractal-art@lists.fractalus.com Description: This mailing list is open to all individuals/organizations interested in all aspects of Fractal Art. This would include fractal and digital artists, fractal software developers, gallery owners, museum curators, art marketers and brokers, printers, art collectors, and simply anybody who just plain likes to look at fractal images. PHILOFRACTAL, The Fractal Philosophy Discussion List Subscribe: philofractal-subscribe@lists.fractalus.com Unsubscribe: philofractal-unsubscribe@lists.fractalus.com Posts: philofractal@lists.fractalus.com Description: This mailing list is for the discussion of fractal philosophy. This includes science and religion, at least in their non-dogmatic aspects, and the way they relate to fractals. This list will have broader limits than the three current fractal lists. FRACTINT, The Fractals and Fractint Discussion List Subscribe: majordomo@xmission.com (body of your email message: subscribe fractint) Posts: Fractint@xmission.com Description: This mailing list is for the discussion of fractals, fractal art, fractal algorithms, fractal software, and fractal programming. Specific discussion related to the freeware MS-DOS program Fractint and it's ports to other platforms is welcome, but discussion need not be Fractint related. Technical discussion is welcome, but so are beginner's questions, so don't be shy. This is a good place to share Fractint tips, tricks, and techniques, or to wax poetic about other fractal software.
- http://www-rocq.inria.fr/fractales/ Some Fractal applets
- http://www.calresco.org/tutorial.htm FAQs, Introductions and Tutorials
- Very complete list of links from Fractals Unleashed"
- David Strohbeen's Fractal Music links good but not annotated other than it is grouped.
- Novak's resources list - short but only good ones!!! **
- Links2Go - good list but confusing interface!
- Fractal World Lsystem links - most complete list I have seen but not much there."
- Fractal Wonderland -good list!
- L-Systems links among other things
- Links to L-Systems - most are dead links!
- http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/index.html GREAT site!!! Here we introduce some basic geometry of fractal sets, with emphasis on the Iterated Function System (IFS) formalism for generating fractals. In addition, we explore the application of IFS to detect patterns, and also several examples of architectural fractals.
- Good explanation of the math behind one fractal
- Fractal Arts Very nice site! Tutorials, software listings, lots of examples.
- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/ Interesting examples of fractals by Paul Bourke
- http://virtualexp.net/ Java2 Fractal Applets A number of these Java2 applets play with fractals. We liked some, but found the 3-D world efforts lacking in realism and substance. Some of these applets might serve as remarkably hypnotic screensavers, were it not for the static copyright notices prominently emblazoned at the bottom of the programs.
- http://www.chaffey.org/fractals/theory/index.html Fractal Theory & Technical Resources from Chaffey High
- L-System Plant Geometry Generator - http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Visualization/contrib/cs490-94to95/hwchen
- http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/827/ Freshmeat article on Fractal software
- Fractals Unleashed List of Fractal Types - very complete!!
- Fractals Unleashed great list and examples of applications
- Fractals Unleashed Famous Fractals List Great list!
- Fractals Unleashed - tremendous site with applets, animations, lessons ******************
- Fractals 101 by David Strohbeen One page explaining concepts behind fractals including applets! Because the applets are slow, it is hard to use the is page!
- Fractory - Basic Info on Fractals Good basic info on how fractals are created
- S Novak's site with tips on creating fractals features tips on Fractal eXtreme. Lots of good info here !!!!! *******
- Sci.fractal FAQ
- The Mandelbrot Set kind of a good explanation of how to compute and display the set and a tour of the set
- Fractal Terrain Tutorial - excellent. Nice pictures****
- L-Systems tutorial - http://www.csu.edu.au/complex_systems/tutorial2.html
- Really nice tutorial ! Especially good for L-Systems! The key to open the boxes is: "Fract"
- Summary of Fractal Types - great list !!! Shows all of the equations
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Linda
Allison's Fractint tips - very good! ***
- Fractint Tips - where to start from Linda Very nice explanation of how she looks for neat parts of fractals ***
- Fractint Color Map Tips by Linda Very nice explanation of colormaps with examples. ***
- Fractal Mountains - Nice simple applet showing how a fractal landscape is created iteratively. Explanation that surrounds it is good too.
- Fantastic Fractals - great, great site! Includes tutorials, software. Simple for high schoolers. Also, http://www.techlar.com/fractals/websys.exe?file=index.html
- Very nice applet showing graphical analysis of iteration for the Mandelbrot set **** Very good and simple ..clearly shows different cases
- Very nice applet of the Chaos Game ****
- Fractalina Another very nice applet demonstration IFS contraction mappings. Makes neat animation3s! Easy, works well,is fast ****
- Fractint L-Systems TutorialGood fairly simple info on using Fractint for L-Systems
- http://www.cln.org/themes/fractals.html
- Do a search for fractal applets
- Java Applet - very nice! - Kind of comlicated and definitely slow!
- Nifty Java Applet for making fractals and links to good sites with fractal info - very slow and not much control
- Fractal Microscope - Great! Easy to use forms or applets to look at Gasket, Juiia Sets, or the Mandelbrot set - requires some understanding of coordinate systems too!
- The Shodor Education Foundation Activities - Awesome collection of applets for all kinds of fractal stuff. Must use this! Mandy is very nice!
- Incredible collection of links to sites with indications of what level ( high school, undergrad,...) !!!
- A Fractals Unit for Elementary and Middle School Students - has some pencil and paper activities too
- Types of Fractals - very nice simple one page example
- Good lesson plans but more for the math aspect of fractals. No computer work at all that I could see.
- Fractals in Layman's terms
- Tutorial for using LParser Good. Simple
- Internet Mathematics Library LOTS of links!
- Good simple explanation of Fractals
- The Natural Geometry of Nature - A nicely done explanation complete with excellent Java applets !
- Fractals in Nature If you've ever wondered how such intricate patterns emerge in a snowflake, you need to see the Dance of Chance. The gallery, a collaboration between the Center for Polymer Studies and the Boston Museum of Science, looks at the emergence of patterns in nature from physical and biological processes. Fractal patterns in nature develop from processes as small as the growth of bacteria on agar or as large as the erosion patterns of large rivers, but their astounding delicacy and similarity is undeniable. Hands-on experiments include studying the Lichtenberg patterns that form when air is forced into a gooey fluid (which you can do in person at the museum, but view online) and observing the feeding trails of termites in sand. One of the coolest things is the description of how electrocardiogram data is used to produce music that you can play in MIDI format at the Web site. That project grew out of a sound (yeah, a pun) cardiology study on looking at such data to determine health.
- Uses of fractals
- Simple paper and pencil activities
- Chaos Hypertextbook Excellent!!!! Very math oriented, though. Does show tables with iterations, which is fairly unique and nice for explaining things in terms of the real numbers.
- An Introduction to Fractals by Paul Bourke - great, but again math and physics oriented
- Annotated set of Chaos Links - Awesome!!! Best I have seen.
- What is a Fractal ?
- Fractovia Links Page - great again! Including galleries, tutorials, software lists
- Ultra Fractal tutorial - looks very good!
- Fractint Tutorial - looks good
- explanation of the routines used to produce each type of fractal - very good. One page shows all types
- Fractals - A History - very good!!!!
- Fractal Explorer - very good explanations of how to create fractals including a guide tour of zooming the Mandelbrot Set
- InterFACE Project"OK set of pages. The lessons are pretty good at explaining the math behind fractals
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December 13, 2002
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1467&m=1310 - What is a Fractal by a high school student
- Definition of Fractal from CRC Encyclopedia of Math
- 2D L-Systems by Robert Dickau - nice explanation and great color drawings and examples of L systems. Must use!!!! Part of more Chaos and fractal pages with nice graphics and Mathematica code
- Fat Days: L- Systems more good examples of simple 2d L-Systems and the rules to create them
- http://flam3.com/index.cgi?&menu=about Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. It has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.
- http://www.chaospro.de/ this website is the home of ChaosPro, a freeware fractal generator for the Microsoft Windows operating system, able to create beautiful images based on mathematical formulas. Great!!!! Includes good docs
- http://www.coolfreesoftware.com/fractal/fractal_d.shtml Fractal Artist: Fractal Artist is a powerful application to draw and zoom the Mandelbrot fractal.B Create your own custom fractal and select your favorite color scheme.B View at any resolution and view the Julia set for any point.B Fractal artist makes it simple to copy, print or save any fractal - make your own fractal wallpaper or amazing images for your website!
- http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/fractals.htmlPython code for fractals
- Mathematica Explorer Online - Mandelbrot and Turtle graphics via the web
- Galapago is a program that uses basic LOGO language syntax and Turtle drawing to render Lindenmayer systems (L-systems). I designed it to help me learn the math techniques described in the book The Algorithmic Beauty Of Plants [Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer]. It has since evolved into a tool for executing LOGO scripts, which can be used and expanded upon by programmers, mathematicians and teachers.
- Ultimate Fractals Supposedly fast and easy to use. Also, small
- Fract-O-Rama
- David Strohbeen's Annoted List of Music Software - excellent!
- Mandelbrot Explorer Simple CGI based, recommended page to do zooming of M Set
- Shodor's Snowflake Applet Great, great applet for showing how to create Koch curve like fracals. Very interactive *****
- Shodor's Sierpinski Applet Great, but complex applet for showing how to create Sierpinski like fracals. Very interactive *****
- Shodor's Fractal Microscope is great for exploring the M Set and seeing the iteration levels for escaping. Also does zooming, shows you the orbits, and more!!!! ********
- From Fractals Unleashed ( all nice but not as controllable as
Shodor's ):
- Koch Fractals and Other Meanders
- Julia applet - nicely shows the relationship between the Mandelbrot Set and Julia Set
- Mandelbrot Set Explorer - nice but slow and only zooming
- Landscape appletVery nice but a little limited in what you can change - only roughness, colormap and shading method. No info on how it is created.
- Random tree applet - very nice. Shows variety you can create. No user control though.
- Fractal music generator applet - looks good, didn't try.
- Fractal Letters CGI based app - neat !"
- Fractal Clusters - a fun app to IFS like stuff Users have good control
- Julien Sprott's Software - eclectic collection small free apps including an interesting one that searches parameter space for IFS fractals!
- Mathematics Archives - Java and other Interactive WWW Pages Huge list !!!
- L-Studio very powerful 3D L-systems app. Too complicated.
- IFS Java Applet Pretty good but would take some doing to understand it
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- MathsNet Fractal Landscapes Generator. An applet. Kind of OK but not a whole to play with and doesn't really show what is happening.
- Univ of Calgary LSystems Application Fast, fairly easy to use, extensive applet for creating L SYstems. Uses color!!!
- Great simple applet for showing predefined L-Systems in color.
- Fractint I read somewhere that this is too complicated for the novice!
- Fractal Explorer - free, looks nice, lots of docs
- Fractal eXtreme This is the app we used in 2000-2001. Very nice!
- Ultra FractalFull Windows shareware app. Looks very nice! Fractalus recommends it
- Fantastic Fractals Looks good! Can create L-Systems. Windows app. Works with the Fantastic Web site tutorials!! Also have a Java Applet
- Fractal Links on Paul Lee's Web Site -huge number of links to all kinds of software
- Huge number of links on the Fantastic Fractals site
- List of Web sites where you can draw your own fractal
- Good comparison of the apps
- Fractal Forge - for Windows, free and nice!
- What file format to save fractals in
- FilmerUses Fractint to make animations
- Annotated List of Fractal Generators for Windows - Outstanding list including L-Systems generators. Need to look thry this.
- Utilities for creating color maps
- Annotated List of Music Software - great
- L Systems parser 3D. Looks somewhat complicated but creates neat graphics! Has loads of links to other L systems stuff
- L-systems applet A very nicely done simple tree generator! Also see
- Nicely annotated list of Mac only apps
- L-System for Windows Looks great!
- TieraZon A popular fractal generator
- MusiNum - The Music in the Numbers Free fractal music program - lots of links, samples here too. Recommended by others ! ****
- Mark Masse's L-System Applet - Great, great, simple fast applet for L-Systems using color!! We should use this!! Excellent help page too.
- LJava Parser Generator - VRML/Java applet - looks good!
- Microsoft's free Image Composer
- IrfanView32 - great image file viewer
- Internet freeware: Graphics - a GREAT list of graphics apps
- http://djfractal.sourceforge.net/ DJFractal is yet another Fractal Generator which uses Mandala to distribute fractal datas to fractal computers. Fractal datas are created locally and distributed to any fractal computers which may be hosted on workstations, Java enabled web-browser through applets, and even JavaCard (!). DJFractal is highly customizable from schedulers to fractal computers. Hence, DJFractal can be used locally whith a fast fractal computer which uses double precision internally or can be used in a distributed environment using several fractal computers available on the network which use arbitrary precision for the computation extending the limitation of the double precision (E-16) to almost infinity (in fact to the sum of the available memory on each host used).
- Painter! Completely free, full featured paint program
- http://draves.org/art.html visual musical instrument, cellular automata, fractals, screen savers, gimp plugins.
- A really active fractal art / digital newsgroup is:alt.fractals.pictures You just have to ask a question or make a comment. One of us will get back to you.
- http://www.chaffey.org/fractals/galleries/index.html - Chaffey High School's FRACTALS on the Web
- Fract-O-Rama generated - gorgeous ! Nice colors
- Animated Mandelbrot Altas Nice but uses Fractal eXtreme's plugin
- Julien Sprott's Natural Fractal images
- Fractopia fractals that look like faces!
- LJavasite gallery. Very nice VRML images!!!
- Lake FractalAnimated Java applet showing fractal lake. Gorgeous!!!!! She has more great stuff at her home page.
- Great, great, great list of all the sites on the Fractal Web Ring including a tremendous example of a wide variety of gorgeous fractals!
- Spanky Fractal Database Lots of images but looks old. Has some nice ones though. See his favorites.
- Animated Fractals The Fractal Zooms on this site are perfect for the demo and all were created using just Fractint and GIF Construction Set which is perfect for the classroom!!!
- Sprott's Fractal Gallery Loads of nice fractals of all kinds including Animated GIFs and natural fractals !!!!
- Very nice QT movie of fractals
- Fractal Music Lab
- GRC K-12 Fractals!
- - small animated GIFS but made using his tool
- Fractal Movie Archive - huge number of movies - usually big files. Nicolas Guerin has some nice ones and so does Gerald Edgar.
- Simple, good animated GIFs."
- Very nice L-systems created using Fantastic Fractals
- African fractals - interesting !
- Fractalus Galleries Some beautiful examples
- Some bizarre fractals from Pickover
- A very neat QT movie of fractals
- Good examples of Fractal Music
- MIDI file of fractal music
- Fractal Images from Fractovia - beautiful!
- Fractalus Art '98 Contents Winners The Best - unbelievably beautiful
- Thinks.com - Great listing of Fractal sites. Annotated
- Beauty of Fractals Beautiful interesting images, many done with Ultra Fractal
- Good review of books about Fractals
- Fractals Unleashed Book list - annotated !!"
- http://www.artmatrix.com/products.html (posters, videos, etc.)
- http://www.lifesmith.com/products.html (many items)
- http://www.nurlnet.com/store.htm (cards and scarves)
- http://www.primenet.com/~rjr/yendor.html (T-Shirts)
- http://www.refractal.com/ (jewelry)
- http://www.thinkpiece.com/ (posters and prints)
- http://www.xmission.com:8000/~legalize/gift.html (poster)
- http://www.Immrama.com/f-prod.htm (prints, cards, etc.)
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