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- From: boshoff@sunvax.sun.ac.za (Hendrik Boshoff)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Fractals and Wavelets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.132148.5664@sunvax.sun.ac.za>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 13:21:48 +0200
- References: <78299@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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- In article <78299@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jgostin@mal-s1.gatech.edu (Jill Gostin) writes:
- >
- > Can anyone tell me how wavelets and fractals relate to each other,
- > or point me to a good reference? I don't know much about wavelets
- > at all.
- >
- > Thanks,
- > Jill
- > --
- > Jill Butterfield Gostin EMAIL: jgostin@mal-s1.gatech.edu
- > Georgia Institute of Technology, GTRI Modeling and Analysis Lab
- > "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place..."
- > -E.L. Konigsburg, _From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler_
-
- Hi, I found one paper connecting the two subjects:
-
- GC Freeland and TS Durrani, ``IFS Fractals and the Wavelet Transform,''
- Proc. ICASSP '90, New Mexiko, pp 2345--2348.
-
- and it refers to a few others:
-
- A Arneodo, G Grasseau and M Holschneider, ``Wavelet transform of
- Multi-fractals,'' Physical Review Letters, Vol 61, pp 2281--2284, 1988.
-
- F Argoul et al, ``Wavelet Transform of Fractal Aggregates,'' Physics
- Letters, A, Vol 135, No 6/7 pp 327--336, 1989.
-
-
- I suppose it depends on what you mean by `fractals.' If you take
- it to mean some set which is (deterministically or randomly) self-similar
- or self-affine over a wide range of scales, then multi-resolution
- analysis is appropriate.
-
- Wavelets is a framework bringing together many approaches to
- such analysis, inter alia subband coding, quadrature mirror
- filters and pyramidal coding.
-
- A nice introduction to wavelets is given in the IEEE Signal Processing
- Magazine of October 1991 (Oliver Rioul and Martin Vetterli, ``Wavelets
- and Signal Processing,'' pp 14--38) with *many* references.
-
- They compare the wavelet transform to the short time Fourier transform
- via the general *Wigner distribution.*
-
- So at least wavelets may be used to analyse fractals, and maybe to
- generate a few new ones. The emphasis in wavelets is generally
- to get a complete set of orthonormal (or at least biorthogonal) wavelets.
- A new set may be needed for each application.
-
- Hendrik
- --
- Hendrik F.V. Boshoff
- Dept E&E Ingenieurswese Dept E&E Engineering
- Universiteit van Stellenbosch University of Stellenbosch
- SUID-AFRIKA SOUTH AFRICA
- email boshoff@firga.sun.ac.za
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