Creating Fractals [With CD-ROM]

by Roger Stevens

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584504234
• ISBN13: 9781584504238
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Charles River Media
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Introducing the Mathematics of Fractals

Fractals were originally considered to be a rather messy offshoot of conventional mathematics. They required entirely too much arithmetic to be useful before the age of computers. But with computers the whole concept of fractals became something that could indeed be studied. A bit of time goes by and all of a sudden the people doing fractals begin to discover that using the right kind of mathematics can be used to produce a lot of images that begin to look like things in nature. These drawings began to look like things such as trees, mountains, clouds, explosions. And all of a sudden there was an interest beyond those of the mathematician just drawing cute geometric patterns, it's called game development. This book is not on gaming, it's on the basics of fracticals. It includes software to generate fractals, and it gives the mathematics of how these fractals are created. It's a basic, beginners book to computer graphics at the mathematical level.