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From: paulm@pyr.gatech.EDU (PAUL MILLER)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Fractals!
Message-ID: <5595@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 88 17:14:24 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: Fractals, Mandelbrot, Julia, Chaos, Iteration in the Complex Plane
Summary: Fractal references, rendering 3-D fractals



   In the discussion regarding useful references concerning fractals, I wanted
to mention the following:
 
Barnsley, M. and Sloan, A.  "A Better Way to Compress Images".  Byte, Jan. 88.

   The gist of the article involves representing ANY image by its IFS codes, 
thereby achieving significant image compression ratios (> 10,000 : 1).
Additionally, it includes a simple algorithm (and BASIC program) for quickly
reconstructing the picture from the IFS (the Random Iteration Algorithm).
 

   I'm interested in doing a project involving *rendering 3D fractal surfaces*
(and their measures).   The following references have been worthwhile:
 
Norton, A.  "Generation and Display of Geometric Fractals in 3-D".  Computer
   Graphics, July 1982. 
 
Kajiya, J.  "New Techniques for Ray Tracing Procedurally Defined Objects".
   Computer Graphics, July 1983.
 
Reeves, W.  "Approximate and Probabilistic Algorithms for Shading and 
   Rendering Structured Particle Systems".  Computer Graphics, July 1985.



   Is anyone aware of other references that would be useful ?
 
Thanks,
Paul Miller

 
   
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Paul Miller
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