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Fractals Reimagined

Fractals redefined in terms of an arbitrary initial array

Deposit #158

Dr . Cye Waldman


A familiar Julia set from the valley of the seahorses is seen here mapped via a rotating decagon.......................................


fractal
                                  seahorse

For those familiar with fractal graphics, this is something radically different.  In our model, the initial iterant can be derived from any Mandelbrot/Julia curve in the complex plane.  The details are in the PDF file.  The standard sets are shown in the table below.

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The following images from the PDF show many examples of reimagined fractals.  Each image on the left shows a small glyph indicating the generating curve for the initial iterant.  Additional images are available in the PDF file with links to more animations.
Fractals Reimagined
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References
SciAm85
August, 1985
We have other interesting Mandelbrot/Julia fractal animations in NCB Deposit #156 and NCB Deposit #157.

Additional Fractal deposits in the NCB:
< ..//fractal2012/fractal2012.htm >
< ..//fractal/fractal.htm >

Other Related Waldman spirals in the NCB:
The Fibonacci and Pseudospirals: < ..//waldman6/waldman6.htm >
For the copyrighted
 PDF file with a full
explanation click
here.
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