Re: No, but Sierpinsky's Triangle is. (WAS: Re: wait! stonehenge is a fractal?)

> accomplishments? unless your name is mandelbrot or sierpinsky or
> something, you simply don't have any accomplishments in fractals.
> Writing a fractal program is trivial, unless you design a new
> algorithm yourself.

Wow! Shimrodstein is not in a good mood today!

Quite frankly, I couldn't care less about the math, all I care about are pics
that can be transmitted over slow modem connections and displayed on slow
computers. To that end, I came up with ideas like the ones that I described in
the thread on ascii fractals. As you can see, the ideas are dissimilar to
those in the text books.

The dissimilarity required me to design my own pic generating algorithms, as
per request/condition for being the equal of Mandelbrot and Sierpinsky  ;-))

> If you call programming a fractal an
> accomplishment, then here's mine:
>   http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/sierpinsky.html
> 
> A javascript animated sierpinsky triangle.

I agree with you, that is not an accomplishment!  ;-))

> TO show how simple programming a fractal really is, here's a fractal
> in postscript I picked up somewhere recently, probably on this group:

Did you check whether it can used for generating pics? I myself have tried out
several of those simple stuff (in the hopes that it can be used for the Web)
but _all_ of them generated quite unimpressive pics, the very reason for me to
come up with my own ideas and algorithms, no joke!

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