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- From: wesley.loewer@dwarp.sccsi.com (Wesley Loewer)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: fractal foam algorith
- Message-ID: <49.523.uupcb@dwarp.sccsi.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 17:45:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: wesley.loewer@dwarp.sccsi.com (Wesley Loewer)
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- Looks like I'm a day late on posting this, but it still has some useful
- information in it. I just read Brian Hunt's posting with some very
- interesting information concerning the fractal foam equations, so some of
- this may be redundant. Anyway, here's what I've come up with.
-
- The 8 end points of the attractors are:
- A = ( (-1 - 3*a^2)/4 , a/2 ) <-- consistent with Brian Hunt
- B = map(A)
- C = ((3*a^2 + 2*sqrt(3)*a + 1)/8 , (3*sqrt(3)*a^2 - 2*a + sqrt(3)/8)
- D = map(C)
- E = map(D)
- F = ((3*a^2 - 2*sqrt(3)*a + 1)/8 , (-3*sqrt(3)*a^2 - 2*a - sqrt(3)/8 )
- G = map(F)
- H = map(G)
-
- To find the value of 'a' I set
- E = map(H) and H = map(E)
- so that the gap between the attractors would be zero. Using the equation
- solver on my calculator, I found that there are four values of 'a' for
- which this is true.
-
- a = +-1.02871376822 and +-1.29099444874
-
- The first pair of values is consistent with the article and with the
- polynomial in Brain Hunt's post.
-
- BH>77 - 33 a^2 - 9 a^4 - 27 a^6 = 0,
-
- The second pair does not produce any inside basin, but does make an
- interesting fractal when using a coloring scheme based on the number of
- iterations before |z| gets bigger than some value (like the Mandelbrot
- Set).
-
- Happy Fractaling,
- -Wes
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- Wesley Loewer
- internet: loewer@star.harc.edu telephone: (713)292-3449
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