fractal brownian islands

From: Roger Bagula (tftn_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:33:06 GMT

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/islands/

                                                   Some surprisingly
simple processes can give rise to shapes that resemble natural features,
such as coastlines.

Brownian motion is a simple concept. A particle making random jumps
traces out a trail which, if one steps back, has structure on all scales
- it is a fractal. (Though a true fractal has structure down to
infinitesimally small scales, a particle
making finite jumps will approach a fractal if you "step back" and look
at it from far away.) 

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