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- From: twegner@mwunix.mitre.org (Timothy Wegner)
- Subject: Christmas Chaos
- Message-ID: <twegner.722182548@mwunix>
- Summary: Request for "Christmas Chaos" code hints
- Keywords: symmetry scientific american lorenz fractals
- Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:15:48 GMT
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- The latest Scientific American has some great fractals in a section called
- "Christmas Chaos". They are "Lorenz" type orbit fractals, and they look
- incredibly easy to code. I tried the three-way-symmetry formula and got it
- "working" in a few minutes (added it to Fractint using the "lorenz" engine)
- but it didn't give any decent image at all. If anyone has any hints please
- email me. Probably some simple thing I overlooked, but the fractal formulas
- are so straight-forward it is hard to see where I went wrong. Only thing I
- can think of is that the viewing region in the complex plane was not given,
- and I was using something like an origin-centered box roughly 16 on a side.
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- Tim Wegner Fractint co-author
- Internet: twegner@mwunix.mitre.org Compuserve: 71320.675@compuserve.com
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