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Fractal Information at Other Sites

• Check out the New Docs section of "What's New" at Spanky page.
• Michael Barnsley's WWW site for Iterated Systems Inc. a commercial fractal compression company.
• Alexander Bogomolny alexb@cut-the-knot.com also has a page with information on the Feigenbaum phenomenom on a page titled Emergence of Chaos
• Dave Boll dboll@frii.com has in interesting page showing some of the relationships between Pi and the Mandelbrot set .
• An "Introduction to Fractals from Paul Bourke in Auckland New Zealand.
• Mary Ann Connors mconnors@math.umass.edu from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts has created some web-documents describing self similar fractals. There is one titled Exploring Fractals and a modified version from PWS Kent publishers from their Math Modules Case Studies series.
• Robert L. Devany at Boston University presents some interesting pages on a variety of Fractal and related topics. The main page is titled: The Dynamical Systems and Technology Project and has many interesting links. Some of the most relavent here are: An introduction to Dynamical Systems and Fractal Geometry. There is also a paper on The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set. He also presents an interesting series of pages called Chaos in the Classroom.
• Matthew T. Ficcaglia qas105@ix.netcom.com presents a page in which he explains and graphically demonstrates a zoom sequence into an interesting region of the Mandelbrot set that he created with Fractint.
• Steve Finch at mathsoft sfinch@mathsoft.com let me know of a document discussing Traveling Salesman Constants which give rise to some very familiar fractal structure.
• Yuval Fisher's WWW site for information on Fractal Compression at inls.ucsd.edu
• Frode Gill in Norway, fgill@adh.no created a few introductory Web pages on fractals.
  They are:
  An Introduction to Mandelbrot programming
  An Introduction to Julia sets.
  An Introduction to Quaternion Julia sets
• Jay R. Hill jay.r.hill@cpmx.saic.com explores the area of the Mandelbrot set with ever increasing precision.
• Loren Hoffman s0lkhoff@titan.vcu.edu put together some information describing the Chaotic Dynamics of f(x)=cxe^x with images created with Fractint.
• Cameron L. Jones dhelix@zed.access.net.au who is a Research Fellow at Centre for Applied Colloid and BioColloid Science, Swinburne University of Technology, School of Chemical Sciences, in Victoria Australia presents a web-paper on 2-D Wavelet Packet Analysis of Structural Self-Organization and Morphogenic Regulation in Filamentous Fungal Colonies
• Cynthia Lanius lanius@rice.edu has developed A Fractals Unit for Elementary and Middle School Students.
• Wentian Li of Rockefeller University wli@linkage.rockefeller.edu has created a webpage dedicated to Papers on 1/f noise
• Chris Lucas chris@calresco.org put together CALResCo "The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept " Web Site, which contains a great collection of material on Fractals, Complex Systems, and Artificial Life.
• Jean-Pierre Louvet louvet@iuta.u-bordeaux.fr has an informative page about fractals. He has compiled a brief history of fractals.
• C.J.van der Mark cvdmark@xs4all.nl has a great tutorial on 3D L-Systems particularly useful for users of the LParser program from Laurens Lapre.
• Doug Martin dmartin@ealnet.com has produced a highschool and college level introduction to fractals called Fract-Ed and it is available for your evaluation.
• Robert P. Munafo has created an Encyclopedia of information about the Mandelbrot set entitled, Mu-Ency - The Encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot Set and it is available from his website.
• David Nicholls nicholls@u030.aone.net.au has written a document on creating fractal ferns with IFS type fractals.
• Dick Oliver dick.oliver@netletter.com presents Non-linear Nonsense. An online newsletter dedicated to describing current trends in Fractals and how they are being applied in todays world.
• Scott Peckham peckham@cires.colorado.edu maintains a list of websites titled: Scott's Nonlinear Science Hotlist
• Dave Sag dave@va.com.au in Australia has updated his fractal music pages titled Experiments with fractal music. He now incorporates real audio.
• Some papers on fractal compression from Dietmar Saupe and Raouf Hamzaoui at University of Freiburg
• Claus-Dieter Schulz gives us The Fractal Music Project from Univ. of Stuttgart.
• John Sheu, Leader of the ThinkQuest 97 Team fractals@busboy.sped.ukans.edu has developed an informative set of pages on fractals called "Fantastic Fractals " for fractal enthusiasts at all levels.
• J. C. Sprott sprott@juno.physics.wisc.edu has a web document detailing his search for Chaos in the Mandelbrot set. It may not be as chaotic as you think, but then again...
  He also has a page talking about his new book "Strange Attractors"
• J.C. Sprotts Fractal Gallery from University of Wisconsin.
• A very informative "Fractal Gallery from Alberto Strumia in Italy.
• Michael C. Taylor mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca has the latest version of The Sci.Fractals FAQ available from his website.
• David J. Wright (wrightd@math.okstate.edu) is a good source of online documentation. His general page is titled Dynamical Systems and Fractals and he has also made available a series of lecture notes for a course on this topic.
• Giuseppe Zito's zito@ba.infn.it Home Page has an index of Links addressing a wide range of fractal information and related topics.

General Purpose or Misc. Fractal Documents/Sites.

• The Institute of Computer Graphics at the Technical University of Vienna present some information on Nonlinear Iterated Function Systems.
• A good online document on Feigenbaum Constants is now available along with many other mathematical constants from the mathsoft website http://www.mathsoft.com/ .
• The www site of the Fractal Research Initiative. A collaborative effort from groups at Waterloo-Montreal-Rocquencourt.
• The "Chaos Metalink", from Industrial Street Productions is a comprehensive list of links to the world of chaos and fractals.
• A quick review of Research Interests in fractals and Chaos from University of Maryland.
• The Complexity On-line database formerly at ANU , now resides at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
• A list of Weblinks to Fractals and related info from bengtmn@algonet.se
• The latest Sci.fractals Faq is now available in html format from Oxford University Libraries WWW server.
• A reference to "Fractal Clouds" from cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov
• The Fractal Microscope at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• You can ftp Another bibliography on "Fractal Compression" from Univ Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
• Iterated Systems will provide a Fractal Plug-in for Netscape To View their FIF "Fractal Image Format" files.
• The IMS preprints FTP archive at math.sunysb.edu
• Three students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have put together a series of pages they call "The Fractory" and they make up a nice introduction into Fractals with a gallery and an interactive fractal server. The student's involved were, Alex Kulesza JKULESZA@lan.tjhsst.edu David Green, dgreen@lan.tjhsst.edu Keith Bergstresser kbergstr@lan.tjhsst.edu
• novak@kingston.ac.uk hosts a page for Fractal 97 "Fractals in the Natural and Applied Sciences" which will be the 4th International Multidisciplinary Working Conference 8 - 11 April 1997, Denver, Colorado, USA

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