Re: The Fractal Challenge

From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:16:00 -0600

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:17:24 GMT, Roger Bagula <tftn@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Dear Dr. Edgar,
>That's the Dr. Monk data alright but the challenge was:
>"The fractal challenge is to reconstruct the IFS for the Pharoah's
>breast plate in translatable
>( at least two recognized computer languages)
>Computer code."

So the "challenge" was not to find the IFS? A perfectly
clear and unambiguous description of the IFS doesn't count,
the challenge is to write the actual code?

This would be a much better challenge for a CS 101 class
than for sci.math.

>C++, Basic, Mathematica, MatLab, Maple...
>Any varifiable computer language that runs on more than one system.
>
>All I care about is that the method isn't lost.
>G. A. Edgar wrote:
>
>>In article <419E0393.7050102@earthlink.net>, Roger Bagula
>><tftn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>The cover of Mandelbrot's book " Multifractals
>>>and 1/f Noise" has the Pharoah's breast plate. (ref page 126-127 of this
>>>book)
>>>The original IFS of this was done by Dr. Monk, but he has lost the
>>>material and has only a vague idea of how to reconstruct it using 6
>>>transforms.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Interesting. Here it is...
>> http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/BPlate/index.html
>>
>>
>>

************************

David C. Ullrich

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