Introduction to fractals
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This package defines some well known fractals:

- with random IFS (Iterated Function System): the Sierpinsky triangle, a Tree and a Fern

- Complex Fractals: the  Mandelbrot and Julia Sets

- the Koch snowflake sets

- Peano maps: the Sierpinski and Hilbert maps

Author: José Ramírez Labrador.

For questions, suggestions and  bugs, please feel free to contact me at

pepe DOT ramirez AAATTT uca DOT es

Definitions for IFS fractals
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Some fractals can be generated by iterative applications of contractive affine transformations in a random way; see

Hoggar S. G., "Mathematics for computer graphics", Cambridge University Press 1994.

We define a list with several contractive affine transformations, and  we randomly select the transformation in a recursive way. The probability of the choice of a transformation must be related with the contraction ratio.

You can change the transformations and find another fractal

 -- Function: sierpinskiale (N)

     Sierpinski Triangle: 3 contractive maps; .5 contraction constant and translations; all maps have the same contraction ratio. Argument N must be great enough, 10000 or greater.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) n: 10000$
          (%i3) plot2d([discrete,sierpinskiale(n)], [style,dots])$

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Function: treefale (N)

     3 contractive maps all with the same contraction ratio. Argument N must be great enough, 10000 or greater.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) n: 10000$
          (%i3) plot2d([discrete,treefale(n)], [style,dots])$

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Function: fernfale (N)

     4 contractive maps, the probability to choice a transformation must be related with the contraction ratio. Argument N must be great enough, 10000 or greater.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) n: 10000$
          (%i3) plot2d([discrete,fernfale(n)], [style,dots])$

     Categories: Package fractals

Definitions for complex fractals
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 -- Function: mandelbrot_set (X, Y)

     Mandelbrot set.

     Example:

     This program is time consuming because it must make a lot of operations; the computing time is also related with the number of grid points.

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) plot3d (mandelbrot_set, [x, -2.5, 1], [y, -1.5, 1.5],
                          [gnuplot_preamble, "set view map"],
                          [gnuplot_pm3d, true],
                          [grid, 150, 150])$

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Function: julia_set (X, Y)

     Julia sets.

     This program is time consuming because it must make a lot of operations; the computing time is also related with the number of grid points.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) plot3d (julia_set, [x, -2, 1], [y, -1.5, 1.5],
                          [gnuplot_preamble, "set view map"],
                          [gnuplot_pm3d, true],
                          [grid, 150, 150])$

     See also julia_parameter.

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Optional variable: julia_parameter
     Default value: %i

     Complex parameter for Julia fractals. Its default value is %i; we  suggest the  values -.745+%i*.113002, -.39054-%i*.58679, -.15652+%i*1.03225, -.194+%i*.6557 and .011031-%i*.67037.

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Function: julia_sin (X, Y)

     While function julia_set implements the transformation julia_parameter+z^2, function julia_sin implements julia_parameter*sin(z). See source code for more details.

     This program runs slowly  because it calculates a lot of sines.

     Example:

     This program is time consuming because it must make a lot of operations; the computing time is also related with the number of grid points.

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) julia_parameter:1+.1*%i$
          (%i3) plot3d (julia_sin, [x, -2, 2], [y, -3, 3],
                          [gnuplot_preamble, "set view map"],
                          [gnuplot_pm3d, true],
                          [grid, 150, 150])$

     See also julia_parameter.

     Categories: Package fractals

Definitions for Koch snowflakes
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 -- Function: snowmap (ENT, NN)

     Koch snowflake sets. Function snowmap plots the snow Koch map over the vertex of an initial closed polygonal, in the complex plane. Here the orientation of the polygon is important. Argument NN is the number of recursive applications of Koch transformation; NN must be small (5 or 6).

     Examples:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) plot2d([discrete,
                        snowmap([1,exp(%i*%pi*2/3),exp(-%i*%pi*2/3),1],4)])$
          (%i3) plot2d([discrete,
                        snowmap([1,exp(-%i*%pi*2/3),exp(%i*%pi*2/3),1],4)])$
          (%i4) plot2d([discrete, snowmap([0,1,1+%i,%i,0],4)])$
          (%i5) plot2d([discrete, snowmap([0,%i,1+%i,1,0],4)])$

     Categories: Package fractals

Definitions for Peano maps
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Continuous curves that cover an area. Warning: the number of points exponentially grows with N.

 -- Function: hilbertmap (NN)

     Hilbert map. Argument NN must be small (5, for example). Maxima can crash if NN is 7 or greater.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) plot2d([discrete,hilbertmap(6)])$

     Categories: Package fractals

 -- Function: sierpinskimap (NN)

     Sierpinski map. Argument NN must be small (5, for example). Maxima can crash if NN is 7 or greater.

     Example:

          (%i1) load("fractals")$
          (%i2) plot2d([discrete,sierpinskimap(6)])$

     Categories: Package fractals