This project draws a fern fractal like this one:
The Barnsley fern is a fractal named after the British mathematician Michael Barnsley who first described it in his book Fractals Everywhere. He made it to resemble the black spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum.
The fern is one of the basic examples of self-similar sets, i.e. it is a mathematically generated pattern that can be reproducible at any magnification or reduction. Like the Sierpinski triangle, the Barnsley fern shows how graphically beautiful structures can be built from repetitive ...
Click the See Code button to make your own! (Instructions inside).
bh
October 25, 2019, 4:12am
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Oh, that's very nice. Is the fact that there are four transformation functions specific to this family of fractals? I'm wondering if the program should be generalized to any size list of transformations.
jens
October 25, 2019, 6:49am
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So beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Good point. I never thought about adding more transformations, but it wouldn't be hard to do.