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

Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> > 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!

Huh? I'm in an excellent mood actually, finally got to spend some more
time on this group again this week. (Oh and please, no stein on my name)

> 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  ;-))

:) It takes a little bit more than that to be the equal of the likes of those

> > 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!  ;-))

Nope, just some work making the ascii.
 
> > 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!

Offcourse it can't generate pics, it's postscript silly!

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