Fractals Everywhere
by Michael F. Barnsley · first published 1993
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This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world.
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Michael Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere is one of the best intro books i found on the subject https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Everywhere-Michael-F-Barnsle...
on “How to fold a Julia fractal (2013)” ↗Fractals Everywhere, Michael F. Barnsley. I love the way it starts: >Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently. There is a danger in reading further. You risk the loss of your childhood vision of clouds,…
on “Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?” ↗…Lisp is not limited to any single paradigm... But something else you wrote brought to mind this rather interesting statement from - of all places! - the introduction to Michael Barnsley's famous book, 'Fractals Everywhere': 'In deterministic geometry, structures are defined, communicated, and analysed, with the aid of elementary transformations such as affine transformations, scalings, rotations, and congruences. A fractal…
on “Teenage Haskell” ↗Fractals Everywhere by Michael Barnsley. It's a mathematics textbook, but very approachable. It could stand to be more rigorous but I'm finding it needs very little supplementary material. I've made it through metric spaces,…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading right now?” ↗…in the early 90s. Later, I learned how it can be generalised to IFS and opened my eyes to much more interesting examples. I think there's even an entire chapter on this specific algorithm in Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere book.
on “A stochastic method to generate the Sierpinski triangle” ↗Very cool. Reminds me of IFS fractals and a book I read, "Fractals Everywhere," which discussed them.
on “Context Free Art” ↗