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From: joerg@cat.uucp (Markus Schichtel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Fractals
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.145506.6121@cat.uucp>
Date: 29 Sep 90 14:55:06 GMT
Organization: C.A.T. Kommunikations-System
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enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au) schrieb am 28. 9.:
> I am interested in getting information on applications of chaos theory, and
> in particular any applications using fractals. I know they are used for
> simulation of landscapes, but has anybody heard of any other use in
> particular non graphics applications.
>
> (I've got an idea, and I want a dream to come true)


Yes there are other applications of fractals coming from the study of
dynamical systems in general in physics.Actually those applications appeared
first on the scene.The link is the fact that many dynamical systems exhibit
chaotic behaviour i.e. those systems have socalled strange attractors which
turn out to be fractals.That is to say one can describe the geometry of
strange attractors using fractals.A good pointer to this material is the
book The beauty of fractals by the German mathematicians Peitgen and Richter.
For instance they explain in detail the famous Lorentz attractor which was
the first to be identified as a strange attractor back in the sixties.
For more references ask the physics community.

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  Markus Schichtel (joerg@cat.de)                     
  C.A.T. Kommunikations-System, Frankfurt