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It can get confusing browsing these fractal pages in their semi-organized state brought on by my random updating. All the links can be a little overwhelming so I'm going to make an attempt to filter all the new links through this page before moving them to their appropriate index page. If you're just looking for recent developments in the Fractal Community, then this is the page for you. I'll form a small set of links under each of the main information catagories I maintain and just keep pointers to recent additions here. I'll try and keep the number of links low and reasonably up-to-date. This page will have a very simple format, within each catagory, new things will be added to the bottom of the list, and moved to the related index page when they get to the top.

This is also one page where the header image may change from time to time. I'll use this page to introduce any current favourite or recent image that I've created.

Fractal Images

• Marcelo Anelli C. 70501.2240@CompuServe.COM from Caracas in Venezuela has created a small fractal page containing some images, a fractal program, and his perspective on the fractal world.
• Ron Barnett reb01@gnn.com presents a small gallery of fractal images and raytracings on his homepage.
• Howard Herscovitch hnhersco@echo-on.net has updated his fractal page on the web.
• Sean Reed sreed@clark.edu maintains a small fractal page with images and parameter files and with links to other useful fractal resources.
• Stephane weibel weibelst@irsil9.ifp.fr at Cnam in France has created a dynamic fractal page which updates with a new image every 30 seconds.
• Shohdy Nagib shohdy@zhurnal.ru has put up a page called "Meddling in the Affairs of Infinity" showing some video feedback effects.
• Sean McCullough bankshot@mailhost.nmt.edu presents a series of Mpeg fractal animations and some info on his fractal programs.
• Kit Mcguire, kmcguire@cybercom.net creates a new Fractal Journey-of-the-Month showing an interesting zoom sequence of mandelbrot images.
• Kees van den Doel's kvdoel@cs.ubc.ca has a Gallery of Mandelbrot Images .
• Jean-Pierre Louvet louvet@iuta.u-bordeaux.fr presents a well put together page with a collection of fractal images and information about fractals. A french version is also available. .
• Garr Lystad lystad@iglobal.net has a collection of fractal images to share .
• Ian Entwistle ian.ent@argonet.co.uk has recently put up a web page called "Woodside Fractals" .
• Paul Carlson pjcarlsn@ix.netcom.com has a new gallery of fractals with many beautiful images stored at Mt. Allison University.
• Douglas Cootey of Elfin Graphics shmoobee@juno.com has started a collection of fractal links that he calls The Infinite Fractal Loop which ties everyones fractal pages together as a bi-directional linked list. Random selections are also available.
• Jill Lawson jill.lawson@ukonline.co.uk has a fractal gallery called FOUR AM. FRACTALS
• Stephen Baker sbaker@tiac.net creates images with fractal generators and ray-tracers. He has a small virtual gallery exhibiting his work.

Interactive Fractal Servers

• Prof. Alberto Strumia strumia@ciram3.cineca.it has a Webpage dedicated to Virtual Maps of Mandelbrot and Julia Sets the images are precalculated but it is a very informative roadmap to these fractal types.
• John Olsson provides an interactive website that generates a fractal worldmap in GIF-format and also provides links to retrieve his sourcecode.
• Neal Kettler has created a new version of his interactive Fractal Explorer and it is much quicker and much more versatile than in the past.
• Simon Arthur chroma@mindspring.com has implemented a Mandelbrot viewer written in Java. If you have a Java capable browser, try it out.
• Ken Shirriff shirriff@eng.sun.com also provides java-script to Zoom in on the Mandelbrot . If you can run Java applets, its an interesting interface. Source is also provided.
• Nick Lilavois nlilavois@cc.atinc.com introduces, Java Man. Not the anthropological homonid, but a web-based mandelbrot generator using the Java language. If your browser supports this extension, take a look!
• A nice and simple Java Applet to display the Sierpinski Triangle
• Mark Mcclure mmcclure@wlu.edu from the Department of Mathematics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia has two interesting fractal pages. He has created a Java based Interactive Julia Set generator and also a a random animation of julia sets. (non-interactive).
• Gary Kerbaugh MACCCOLL@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU has written a really inovative interactive fractal server that draws IFS type fractals. It has a fixed set of traditional IFS designs but it also has a user interface to let you create your own IFS fractals. He calls his server Fractals: Not by the Numbers and it is a well designed and documented interactive fractal server.
• Zak Elliott zelliott@iterated.com at Iterated Systems informed me of a new IFS Java applet developed there.
• James Henstridge james@daa.com.au in Australia has created a great series of Java Applets for Fractals with about a dozen different types. His source code is also available.
• Michael G. Henderson mgh@nis.lanl.gov at Los Alamos has a well established Interactive Mandelbrot/Julia zoomer available.

Fractal Programs

• Michael Peters 100041.247@compuserve.com has updated his Webpage dedicated to the HOP program which is a versatile and dynamic fractal generator with many types of interesting fractals. The site is now the official source of his fractal programs and screensavers. Keep a link to it. It is also available here at Spanky .
• Once again Michael Peters provides some interesting software. This is a collection of attractors based on his own variations on a formula which was found by CERN physicists Gumowski and Mira. Take a look at the webpage for the PLANKTON EXPLORER from Michael Peters (send email to 100041.247@compuserve.com ) It is also available here at Spanky .
• Slawomir Nikiel snikiel@irio.wsi.zgora.pl in Poland has created an IFS program for windows called MIFS
• Yan Qiu Chen, yqchen@pacific.net.sg has created an IFS movie program for MSDOS called FractMovie and it is available from his homepage.
• Mike Freeman mfreeman@capcollege.bc.ca from Capilano College has developed another 24bit colour fractal generator called trumand and it can be downloaded from his webpage.
• Dennis De Mars demars@netcom.com has made his latest version of FracPPC v1.1b, a fractal generator for the PowerPC, and also small gallery of images created with it available from his new webpage.
• David Wright wgwright@mnsinc.com presents a program created explicitly for teaching about fractals called A Fractal Experience
• The Fractal animation and zoomer program written by written by David Mansfield and Julian Haight julian@cobite.com called Filmer is available from his homepage.
• Niels Ulrik Reinwald ccc23578@vip.cybercity.dk has updated his fractal program FRACZOOM yet again. The latest version is version 5.0. There are a lot of interesting features to this program! Definitely worth a look!
• Ramiro Perez rperez@ns.pa has a new website with links to his fractal programs and pages on Chaos and artificial life etc...
• Bernd Hemmerling hemmerli@cs.tu-berlin.de now maintains his own website dedicated to his fractal programming efforts. His programs are specifically designed for producing High-colour and True-colour fractals on the IBMPC platform. He has just released new versions of several of his programs. Both his FracTrue and LyapTrue are also available from the Spanky program archives.
• Theron Wierenga twiereng@remc4.k12.mi.us from Wierenga Software, has a shareware Mandelbrot/Julia Set Generator for Windows
• Want sound from Chaos? Have a PowerMac?
  Jae Ho Chang jaeho@xs4all.nl suggests a visit to the Chaotic Synthesis Home Page
• Gael mms009@ifma.ifma.fr has a fractal program to share.
• A new freeware fractal program for Win95, WinNT or PowerMac called Aros Fractals from Aros Magic.
• Stephen C. Ferguson of Perception Graphics at itriazon@gte.net has a webpage dedicated to "Iterations", a program to generate fractals.
• Phil Packard plptrigon@enterprise.net has given me a copy of his Fractal Orbits Program for Win95 and Windows/NT systems. It is responsible for many of the unique and beautiful fractal images posted to the alt.binaries.pictures.fractals newsgroup these past few months.
• Philip J. Baker phil@pjbsware.demon.co.uk has written a Freeware screensaver for Windows and Win95 systems that uses several fractal images.
• XaoS is a program developed by Thomas Marsh amadeus@realtime.net and Jan Hubicka, hubicka@limax.paru.cas.cz and the latest release is available from it's European site, The XaoS Homepage maintained by Jan Hubicka or the new American site .
• John W. Ratcliff jratclif@inlink.com has written a Win95 Fractal Drawing Program called DFRAC which he calls a "(DirectDraw) Mandelbrot Exploration program."
• Jeff Colvin kd4syw@usit.net has a homepage for Iterated32: An Iterated Function Systems program he developed for Win95 and Windows/NT using Visual Basic 4.0
• Bruce Dawson of Cygnus Software cygnus@midplains.net announces his Fractal eXtreme fractal program for Win32. It's a shareware fractal generator. Go there to download a version for a 15 day free trial.
• Michael Sargent msargent@zoo.uvm.edu creates the Quintessential Sophistry Home Page, where he presents several of his fractal generating programs and an image gallery. They are all 32 bit applications for the Win95 environment and are capable of true-colour operation.
• Frode Gill fgill@krs.hia.no has updated his Quaternion Generator The program requires Windows 3.1 or above, and the standard Borland .DLL-files which are available at his site.
• Jason Letbetter redbeard@flash.net created Set Surfer which is a 32 bit Windows 95 app for exploring the mandelbrot set. It is currently in beta testing. Try it out.

Fractal Documents

• David J. Wright (wrightd@math.okstate.edu) is a good source of online documentation. His general page is titled Dynamical Systems and Fractals and he has also made available a series of lecture notes for a course on this topic.
• Scott Peckham peckham@cires.colorado.edu maintains a list of websites titled: Scott's Nonlinear Science Hotlist
• Mary Ann Connors mconnors@math.umass.edu from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts has created some web-documents describing self similar fractals. There is one titled Exploring Fractals and a modified version from PWS Kent publishers from their Math Modules Case Studies series.
• Cameron L. Jones dhelix@zed.access.net.au who is a Research Fellow at Centre for Applied Colloid and BioColloid Science, Swinburne University of Technology, School of Chemical Sciences, in Victoria Australia presents a web-paper on 2-D Wavelet Packet Analysis of Structural Self-Organization and Morphogenic Regulation in Filamentous Fungal Colonies
• Nick Aschenbach nick@helen.bush.edu has put together a short descriptive fractal page describing the basic Mandelbrot iteration and julia sets, together with a list of links to other fractal sites.
• Richard M. Carew opalguy@primenet.com hypothesizes on a FRACTAL UNIVERSE?? in a brief article where he ponders the self similar shapes recurring in nature.
• Three students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have put together a series of pages they call "The Fractory" and they make up a nice introduction into Fractals with a gallery and an interactive fractal server. The student's involved were, Alex Kulesza JKULESZA@lan.tjhsst.edu David Green, dgreen@lan.tjhsst.edu Keith Bergstresser kbergstr@lan.tjhsst.edu
• Sheikh Pancham sheikh@netside.net introduces his doctoral dissertation where he applies wavelet transforms to test for FBM in financial market analysis.
• novak@kingston.ac.uk hosts a page for Fractal 97 "Fractals in the Natural and Applied Sciences" which will be the 4th International Multidisciplinary Working Conference 8 - 11 April 1997, Denver, Colorado, USA
• The U.S. Marine Corp. "New Sciences" site, maintains a useful list of web resources on topics relating to Complex systems, Fractals, Artificial Life, and Chaos.
• Dave Boll dboll@pacifier.com has in interesting page showing some of the relationships between Pi and the Mandelbrot set .
• Michael C. Taylor mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca has the latest version of The Sci.Fractals FAQ available from his website.
• Robert P. Munafo Robert.Munafo@prepress.pps.com has created an Encyclopidia of information about the Mandelbrot set titled, Mu-Ency - The Encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot Set and it is available from his website.
• C.J.van der Mark cvdmark@xs4all.nl has a great tutorial on 3D L-Systems particularly useful for users of the LParser program from Laurens Lapre.
• Michele Lukowski makasha@gladstone.uoregon.edu gives a short review of Fractal Image Compression
• Havard Berland hberland@robin.no Has compiled a lot of interesting information on The Feigenbaum fractal.
• Alexander Bogomolny alexb@cut-the-knot.com also has a page with information on the Feigenbaum phenomenom on a page titled Emergence of Chaos

Fractal Code examples

• John C. Hart provides some c code to view quaternion Julia sets from his home page.
• Robert M. Dickau has some web-pages with some images and code examples to create Fractals with Mathematica. These pages are now kept at Swarthmore.
• Insert your fractal program here email noel@triumf.ca

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