Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!douglas
From: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: I hope this clarifies some things....
Message-ID: <8520@reed.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 09:23:10 GMT
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Reply-To: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Keywords: fractals

My understanding is that fractals get their name from having a fractional
number of dimensions.  Of course, by the ordinary definition, they still have
an integral number.  Sierpinsky developed a notion of fractional dimensions
to apply to patterns such as Sierpinsky's carpet that aparrently fill area
but mathematically do not.  There are several good articles in Scientific
American and Byte from the past few years.  I reconstructed Byte's fractal
drawing program from fragmentary evidence and drew most of the shapes from 
their article, using GriffinTerm, with its Tek 4012 emulation.   My code
is in Pascal and input is not user friendly.

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