http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/the_brainsturbator_fractal_toolkit/

There’s a huge gaping hole: software programs to visualize and explore fractals.  Back in the day I used Fractal Xtreme until my desktop crashed computing a Mandelbrot zoom with anti-aliasing and smooth transitions, nyuk nyuk nyuk.  I have no idea what’s out there now and I don’t really have the hard drive space to find out these days.  Any suggestions and reviews would be appreciated.

The Chaos Hypertextbook has a directory of software programs—but only for Mac:
http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/92.shtml

thirtyseven - 06 August 2007 07:29 PM

Any suggestions and reviews would be appreciated.

Personally I haven’t touched anything but the standard KDE tools and ElectricSheep.

Have a look at some comparisons (mostly GPL’ed) over on this freshmeat page

Here’s the biggest collection of documents related to flicker noise:

http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/1fnoise/

After reading the Fractal article last night, stumbleUpon took me to Strange Loops on Wikipedia and then later this pic.

Didn’t know Hofstadter had a new book out on this. Looks very interesting.

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^^That .gif is amazing.

I just came across a good, simple listing of mathematical symbols, since I keep coming across new ones, I figured it might be useful for other folks, too.

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/facts/symbol.html

One piece of software you might take a look at is gkII which errrm, I happen to have written. It computes the M-set while simultaneously computing a second iterative equation to mangle it. I’ll admit it’s a bit on the slow side.

It’s for Linux, but there’s a few thumbnail links to images on the main gkII page you might enjoy.

here’s an example:

large:spiral filamentalities

large:chill horizon

^^Self-promotion is no vice!  Especially when you’re promoting something as cool as this...thanks for the heads-up.  I don’t have Linux but I will pass it around.

Cheers 37

http://www.volkmar-weiss.de/chaos.html

“The golden mean as clock cycle of brain waves”—wild, slow-digesting brainfood

Dang.. it is now gone, but there was a funny site on ytmnd.com which featured the “shoreline” picture and an audio file which said “it’s a shore line....” with some guitar sound.

I guess my relevance to this topic is not present.

Several more dope finds:

The Solar Spectrum—I’m gonna investigate, but I’m betting cash right now that the gaps in the solar spectrum exhibit that 1/f flicker noise:
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0600.html

“Fractal Spacetime” from Natural Genesis:
http://www.naturalgenesis.net/default.taf?_function=bib&ID=26

And wiki has a surprisingly concise and info-packed article on Scale Invariance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariant

thirtyseven - 16 August 2007 01:58 AM

And wiki has a surprisingly concise and info-packed article on Scale Invariance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariant

Thanks for this bit.

Found this via Dan Winter:

http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/index.html

And by the way, Dan’s site is back up, alive and well, at http://www.goldenmean.info/indexdw.html

Great MatLab-generated fractals gallery—good for poaching illustrations from:
http://home.hia.no/~byrgeb/imageslinks.htm

WTF?? Programming DNA to generate Sierpinski triangles?

http://socialfiction.org/n.php?nski=195&submit=send

Apparently so, there’s even DNA-based nanotubules these days:

http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/

And here’s the Nature article about the Sierpinski DNA trick—f’ing showoffs:
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v7/n7/fig_tab/nrg1892_F6.html

Fractal Cosmology:

http://www.safarmer.com/pico/fractalcosmologies.html

huge archive of Martinez papers on the fractal distribution and morphology of galaxies:
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/author/V.Martinez

Have you seen this site?

http://www.fractaluniverse.org/

This is a really great basic intro to a fractal-shaped universe.  Sorry if it’s already been posted, but I didn’t find it in a search.

Yeah, I’m using some of that for the next article....I wish the format wasn’t such a pain in the ass!  Magonia Exchange is much the same way, great material, useless format.

http://www.magoniax.com