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It can get confusing browsing these fractal pages in their semi-organized state brought on by my random updating. All the links can be a little overwhelming so I'm going to make an attempt to filter all the new links through this page before moving them to their appropriate index page. If you're just looking for recent developments in the Fractal Community, then this is the page for you. I'll form a small set of links under each of the main information catagories I maintain and just keep pointers to recent additions here. I'll try and keep the number of links low and reasonably up-to-date. This page will have a very simple format, within each catagory, new things will be added to the bottom of the list, and moved to the related index page when they get to the top.

This is also one page where the header image may change from time to time. I'll use this page to introduce any current favourite or recent image that I've created.

• Les St Clair's les_stclair@compuserve.com "Fractal Panarama" homepage is a very interesting and useful collection of Images, fractal movies, and related documents.
• Luc-André Rey lrey@worldcom.ch has added some new pages to his Fractal Gallery.
• Terry Wright twriter@swbell.net has created a fractal gallery called Rooms with a View with over 1500 fractals available for viewing, including fractals which are combined with poetry.
• Georg Carlson has a fractal art website called Fractillusions with about 180 24-bit images on display.
• Anton Feenstra anton@chem.rug.nl has a thumbnail thumbnail gallery of Mandelbrot fractals created with FractInt.
• Stanley Novak Novak.S@worldnet.att.net has a website titled "Fractal Adventures". The purpose of the site is to aid individuals with differing levels of technical experience to get started creating fractals.
• Mitchell Robinson mcryptic@yahoo.com created a webpage called " The Fractal Forest ". It contains a series of fractal images and movies.
• Philip Northoverfnorthov@ccs.carleton.ca presents a Personal fractal gallery. Welcome to Fractal Alhambra.
• Shawn Danielsshawn (at) imaxx (dot) net has a collection of fractals and background tiles called Fractal Mania. Instructions for creating seamless tiles and a collection of fractal links are also available.
• Hop David hopspage@tabletoptelephone.com has created an interesting animated fractal background tile for chaotic webpages. His Esher like tilings although not fractal, are also very much worth looking at.
• Damien M. Jones at Fractalus.com presents this years fractal art contest Fractal-art 99
• Anton Feenstra anton@chem.rug.nl has a collection of Mandelbrot Pictures.
• Dennis C. De Mars info@fractaldomains.com has a collection of images at the Fractal Domains Gallery.
• Thomas Marsh and Jan Hubicka hubicka@freesoft.cz have a gallery of images created with their Xaos program at the XaoS Fractal Gallery
• Scott Draves spot@draves.org has a collection of animated flame fractals in mpeg format that are extremely fascinating.
• Rumi Humphrey rumi@neosapien.net has some more animated flame fractals in both mpeg and quicktime formats.
• Karen McCormack karen_mc@mindspring.com presents a collection of her fractal works including a nice collection of flame fractals.
• A Collection of Fractal Designs by Peter Erbe called "Fractals Unlimited"
• Dave Makin davemakin@x-stream.co.uk has a webpage called "Makin' Magic" containing Programs, Fractals, Freeware, Source and Graphics.
• Michael Joycemsjoyce@uvic.ca presents a few interesting iterations on a logistical equation.
• Mitsutoshi Naruse and Masako Naruse yamaimo@luna.email.ne.jp have created a series of Fractal Galleries with some very beautiful images.
• Ken Keller looks at Exploring the boundary between Creation & Discovery in " A Fractal Art Gallery"
• Ken Cory corys@idirect.com has a personal fractal gallery
• Ton Koppens t.koppens@hccnet.nl has a gallery of very nice fractint images he has created and put on display at Ton's Homepage. He also has a second Homepage which contains a number of different fractal galleries as well as a Fractint Resource page.
• Stuart Thut JONES@thecat50.freeserve.co.uk presents some unusual 3D fractal wallpaper generated with NESS the "Never Ending Screen Saver".
• Jon Stoppard jon@riffraffuk.demon.co.uk from Riff Raff Records has an interesting gallery of Fractal Images.
• Lee Graham lgraham@chat.carleton.ca created some interesting fractal images with his own fractal programs.
• Paul N. Lee Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net Hosts some more fractals from one of my favourite fractal artists. Fractal Art by "O"
• Domenico Nadile domeniconadile@libero.it has a small gallery of fractals created with Fractint.
• Richard Taylor exile@21stcentury.net has created some fractal desktop images for linux or your choice of OS.
• Marc Meidlinger mamei@freenet.de in Germany has a site with a selection of fractal images called Ljapunow-Diagramme und ähnliches.
• Dr. Joseph Trotsky fractalis@crosswinds.net present's "FAME", Fractal Art Museum Enterprise.

• Mark Mcclure mmcclure@wlu.edu from the Department of Mathematics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia has an interesting fractal java page. He has created a Java based Interactive Julia Set generator.
• Gary Kerbaugh MACCCOLL@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU has written a really inovative interactive fractal server that draws IFS type fractals. It has a fixed set of traditional IFS designs but it also has a user interface to let you create your own IFS fractals. He calls his server Fractals: Not by the Numbers and it is a well designed and documented interactive fractal server.
• James Henstridge james@daa.com.au in Australia has created a great series of Java Applets for Fractals with about a dozen different types. His source code is also available.
• Michael G. Henderson mgh@nis.lanl.gov at Los Alamos has a well established Interactive Mandelbrot/Julia zoomer available.
• Ed Hynan ehy@delphi.com has a fractal Java applet creating mandelbrots and planets .
• John C. Hart hart@eecs.wsu.edu has built an interesting Quaternion Julia Set VRML Server.
• Jelena Kovacevic jelena@bell-labs.com presents the Twin dragon applet and explains how it relates to wavelets and demonstrates how it can be used to tile the plane.
• Adam Martinwww-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk at the Gonville and Caius College Student Web Server has written some Java scripts for Java Fractal Landscapes.
• The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. WebMaster@shodor.org has a small collection of both Java and CGI based fractal tools and Simulation Software including "The Fractal Microscope".
• Claes Månsson cj@samurajdata.se has created an interactive mandelbrot zoomer called Fractal Map
• F. Edward Boas boas@stanford.edu has created an interactive fractal webserver called "Fractal Letters" which takes a short word and generates a fractal representation using a variant of IFS.
• Robert Jessop robertj@flashmail.com has written an L-Systems Java Applet that interprets Fractint L-system types.

• F. Slijkerman slijkerman@compuserve.com has a webpage dedicated to his Ultra Fractal fractal generator for MS-DOS. It is a shareware program.
• David CHARDONNET chardonnetd@minitel.net created the "BRAZIL" Fractal objects generator A freeware IFS fractal program.
• Terry W. Gintz twgg@ix.netcom.com finally has a webpage for his ZPlot Fractal Program It is versatile fractal generator for windows 3.x and windows 95. It can be downloaded from his gallery page.
• Paul N. Lee Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net maintains a great list of currently available Fractal Software Programs for many different platforms.
• Jesse Jones jesjones@halcyon.com has released his new fractal program. MandelBrowser is a fractal program for PowerMacs.
• Dirk Meyer dirk.meyer@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de has a page for Quat - A 3D-Fractal-Generator Version 0.90 and it will run under windows, dos linux and xwindow systems. Source code is also available.
• Wolf Jung jung@iram.rwth-aachen.de at the Institut fuer Reine und Angewandte Mathematik in Aachen Germany, has some Programs for the iteration of quadratic polynomials that he is willing to share.
• Ben Michell bmichell@cybergraphic.com.au in Australia has created an IFS fractal generator called Ephemera. It is a free screen saver for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
• Thore Berntsen thbernt@online.no in Norway has written an program which allows you to run Fractint as a Screen-saver with a list of selected parameters.
• Lars Kindermann kindermann@forwiss.de in Germany has written a fractal music program called Musinum for MS Windows 3.1, Win95 or NT. A soundcard or general-MIDI device is strongly recommended.
• David Sharp dsharp@interport.net has created the "LMUSe" fractal music generator program for turning L-systems into midi-system music.
• Gregory Troussov at TruSoft International sales@trusoft.netmegs.com told me of his shareware fractal analysis program called BENOIT[tm] It is a computer program that enables you to measure the fractal properties (fractal dimension, hurst exponent, etc.) of your data sets. It runs under win95/NT and will produce true colour images in BMP format.
• Steve Giannoni CasaGiannoni@worldnet.att.net created the SA18 Chaos Engine and Screen Saver for exploring strange attractor images, and the latest version can be downloaded from his web-page.
• Christoph Stroh christoph.stroh@jk.uni-linz.ac.at is studying " Julia Sets of Complex Polynomials" and Their Implementation on the Computer. His Masters thesis on this subject and RatioJulia 2.2.1 his julia-set visualization tool for PowerMacintoshes are available from his homepage.
• Paolo Guagliumi pguagliumi@usa.net has written an AUTOMATIC FRACTAL MAP GENERATOR (Version 1.2) for windows. The program generates and manages map files for use with Fractal programs such as Winfract and Fractint.
• Michael Peters mpeters@csi.com has updated his Webpage dedicated to the HOP 2.0 program which is a versatile and dynamic fractal generator with many types of interesting fractals. He has recently released Hop version 2.0. The site is now the official source of his fractal programs and screensavers. Keep a link to it.
• Martin Pfingstl martin.pfingstl@db.com has written a shareware fractal program called ChaosPro and uploaded it to Simtelnet. Here is some detailed info on the program and how to download it.
• Terry W. Gintz has released a new fractal program called Dofo-zon (for W95). It is available for download from the : ftp://ftp-hs.iuta.u-bordeaux.fr/twggfa/ ftp site. Download files dze1171.zip and dze1172.zip. The file dzsrc117.zip is the source file.
• Christian Kleinhuis christian.kleinhuis@pironet.de Has a fractal animation program called PhatFractal. Visit his page for a preview and instructions on how to download it.
• Michael Sargent msargent@zoo.uvm.edu Has released a new fractal generation program for Windows/95 called QS Flame. It's a free- standing (and free) program that plots the beautiful attractors created by Scott Draves, which he describes as "cosmic recursive fractal flames". The program, along with my other fractal programs and an updated image gallery, is available at my Web site.
• Finn Tolderlund finn@teliamail.dk has written a fractal screensaver which can be downloaded for free.
• Junichi Sato "pochi" stc_mtka@cb3.so-net.ne.jp told me of his Mandelbrot Root Explorer Roots can be calculated, so many images can be made automatically. And classifications of Mandelbrot images are possible.
• Terry W. Gintz terrywg@home.com now has a new fractal program added to his collection of fractal generation software. Fractal ViZion is now available along with Terry's previous programming efforts. All excellent fractal programs.
• Aaron Klingaman klingama@oit.edu released a program that generates Iterated Function System fractals. DesignIFS is a Windows 95/98/NT shareware program to model ferns, trees, and other natural objects.
• Eugene Kononov has written Visual Recurrence Analysis (VRA) version 4.2 for Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT. It is a software package for topological analysis, qualitative and quantitative assessment, and nonparametric prediction of nonlinear and chaotic time series.
• Thaddaeus Frogley has developed PocketIFS 0.3a for the Palm Pilot pocket computer. Creates IFS / l-system fractals (trees, shells, coast lines, spirals) with ease. PalmPilot
• Sirotinsky A.A. and Fedorenko O.V. from Kiev, Ukraine have created Fractal Explorer for Windows 95/98. It is a freeware program to generate fractal images and animations. With FE you can generate polynomial/iteration sets (Mandelbrot/Julia/Newton-like), orbital fractals, Iterated Function System (IFS), fractal landscapes and three-dimensional "strange" attractors.
• Paul Carlson carlsonpw@home.com has finally got around to releasing a fractal program to easily recreate his fine fractal images. It's called Mind-Boggling Fractals and a viewers gallery and ordering info can be found at the site.
• Ruben Zilibowitz ruben_zilibowitz@buzzle.com.au is developing Fracan High Demensional Fractal Analysis tool. Fracan is shareware software for Macintosh for investigating fractals in up to three dimensions.
• Martin Nezadal nezadal@volny.cz is a co-creator of HARFA A Harmonic and Fractal Image Analysis program that does Fractal dimension and fractal measurement calculations via box counting methods.
• Stefaan Vermuyten svermuyten@hotmail.com has written a new freeware program called ALIEN LAB which generates a series of non-standard fractal types with an easy user interface.
• Maxence Bernard maxence@m4xence.com informed me of a program called µFrac (pronounce myü-frak) which is a distributed fractal explorer for mobile devices (phones and PDAs).

• Carl Burke cburke@mitre.org has a document on Fractals and Terrain Generation.
• Robert P. Munafo rpm%mrob.uucp@spdcc.com presents a webpage discussing Analytical systems used for the Mandelbrot Set as well as a discussion on Pixel Counting techniques in determining the area of the Mandelbrot.
• Prof. Vladimir Gontar galita@bgumail.bgu.ac.il with the International Group for Chaos Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Presents his homepage, with links to several papers in this field. He also the editor of the journal Dynamics in Nature and Society
• Randall D. Peters, pgrdp@ttacs.ttu.edu Texas Tech University Physics Dept. presents a webpage dedicated to the study of Nonlinearity, Chaos, and Complexity in Mechanical Systems.
• A system using Fractal Algorithms for Visual Encryption called Fitin or Fractal ITeration of INformation
• Information on an upcoming Conference titled MATHEMATICS & DESIGN 98 to be held 1 - 4 June 1998 in San Sebastian, Spain. it is Organized by the Applied Mathematics Department of the University of the Basque Country.
• Glenn Elart gae4@columbia.edu at Columbia has put together a useful series of web documents called The Chaos Hypertextbook It covers fractal related material from Iterations, orbits, attractors, dimension, mandelbrots and Julians, to measuring chaos.
• Alessandra Lumini lumini@csr.unibo.it presents a webdocument discussing techniques for a new method of image generation by Processing Petri Nets with a variety of filters.
• Paul McQuaid paulm@elliottwave.com of Elliottwave International sent me a short paper written by Robert R. Prechter, Jr. titled:
  The Mathematical Basis of History
  in which he introduces the principles of stock market trend analysis put forth by Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1930's. The curves are fractal in nature.
• The Community Learning Network CLN hosts a webpage dedicated to a variety of fractal information and pointers to programs. Enjoy the Fractals Theme page from CLN.
• Hop David hopspage@tabletoptelephone.com Has an interesting spin on some basic l-system structure by applying these techniques to the keplarian solids, creating Keplerian Fractals. His other pages on other geometetric constructions is also quite fascinating.
• Pablo Moscato moscato@cacr.caltech.edu at Caltech Provides the TSPBIB Home Page It is a comprehensive listing of papers, source code, preprints, technical reports, etc, available on the Internet about the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and some associated problems. I found it interesting to see how it relates to the PEANO fractal curve.
• The Math Forum webmaster@forum.swarthmore.edu maintained at Swarthmore has a great index of Fractal Resources It is a long annotated list of URL's linking to a goldmine of fractal information.
• J.P. Louvet louvet@iuta.u-bordeaux.fr has added a page to his expanding library of fractal information. His latest efforts cover the topic of The Colours of Fractals.
• Aaron Tyrrell tyrrella@metaculture.net has put his Metaculture Site online. It has over 3,000 links to sites and books related to the applications of fractal geometry to fields in math, science, philosophy and religion.
• Wayne Hayeswayne@cs.utoronto.ca has submitted a thesis for his Masters Sc. titled: Efficient Shadowing of High Dimensional Chaotic Systems with the Large Astrophysical N-body Problem as an Example
• Chris C. King of King Mathematics Department, University of Auckland has written a paper titled: Fractal and Chaotic Dynamics in Nervous Systems.
• David Clark Little has a web document available titled: COMPOSING WITH CHAOS Which shows how concepts and mathematical models derived from the developing field of Chaos Science can be applied to electroacoustic and instrumental composition.
• E. B. Bogomolny and M. Carioli from the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France, present a paper on: Quantum Maps from Transfer Operators in the study of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems.
• Nicholas B. Tufillaro, Jeremiah Reilly, and Tyler Abbott have a paper online called: An experimental approach to nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Eric W. Weisstein http://www.treasure-troves.com/author.html has a web document on the calculation of the Lyapunov Characteristic Exponent
• Tony Roberts from the Dept Maths & Comput, University of Southern Queensland, presents a series of images and an article on lego fractals.
• Discovery Online www.discovery.com has an online article called The Sound of Chaos which explores fractal audio from the mandelbrot set.
• Juan Luis Martínez storjorn presents a good explanation of things fractal on his page, The Nature of Fractals, which is a link from his main page T h i r d . A p e x . t o . F r a c t o v i a
• Mike Sukop msukop@pop.uky.edu has written some papers with fractal related topics.
  • Introduction to Fractals and Some Potential Applications
  • Fractal Surface Chemistry and Sorption of Organic Compounds on a Humic Acid
• Ben Tamari ecometry@netvision.net.il has a site relating to fractals from several different perspectives at his website Chaos, Fractals and Attractors in Economics.
• Evgeny Demidov demidov@ipm.sci-nnov.ru presents a java-driven fractal document called The Mandelbrot and Julia sets Anatomy
• From the list of FAQ'sFrequently Asked Questions We have both the sci.fractals FAQ and the older Fractal-faq.
• Ray Girvan raygirvan@freezone.co.uk has put together a well crafted hoax and released it as an April Fools joke called THE MANDELBROT MONK.
• Michal Zalewski lcamtuf@bos.bindview.com has Written an interesting paper on the web called Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis

Other Near Subject Related Material directory

• Jack Ruijs jack@ramos.nl presents an interesting and thought provoking exploration into cellular automata and the emergence of chaos called Yin Yang Fire.
• The Math Forum webmaster@forum.swarthmore.edu maintained at Swarthmore is a great resource in a variety of Mathematical topics.
• Eugene Kononov has written Visual Recurrence Analysis (VRA) version 4.2 for Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT. It is a software package for topological analysis, qualitative and quantitative assessment, and nonparametric prediction of nonlinear and chaotic time series.
• ISCE The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence Their mission is to promote pragmatic dialogue around the areas of networking, emergence and complexity studies.
• Glenn Elert created The Chaos Hypertextbook[tm] with a large collection of links on Chaos related material.

• John C. Hart provides some c code to view quaternion Julia sets from his home page.
• Robert M. Dickau has some web-pages with some images and code examples to create Fractals with Mathematica. These pages are now kept at Swarthmore.
• Insert your fractal program here email noel@triumf.ca

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