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

Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> Well, I did similar things to fractals, just point your browser to my website, then
> select: The Shocksteins
> select: shockwave experiments.
> 
> True fractal algorithms are too computing intensive and would display too
> slowly over the web and on slower computers of websurfers. So I used a much
> faster pseudofractal (and pseudorandom) algorithm in that section of my website.
> 
> > PC, you need to re-do some old math homework:
> 
> Well, and what accomplishments in fractals can _you_ come up with to accompany
> the pretentious tone, Veronicastein?  ;-))
> 

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. 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.

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

[----8<---- snip from here -----

/D{def}def /d{.00017 add D}D /C{2 copy dup mul exch dup mul}D /g 150
string
D /y .29 D 150 150 8[.4 0 0 .4 -45 -90]{/x -1.2 D 0 1 149{x y /n 300
D{/n n
5 sub D C exch sub x add 3 1 roll 2 mul mul y add C add 4 gt n 5 eq
or{exit
}if}loop pop pop g exch n put /x x d}for /y y d g}image showpage


----- until here ----8<---]

save to a file and view as postscript.

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