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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.
• 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.
• 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
• Dennis C. De Mars info@fractaldomains.com has a collection of images at the Fractal Domains Gallery.
• Scott Draves has a collection of animated flame fractals in mpeg format that are extremely fascinating.
• 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.
• Ken Keller looks at Exploring the boundary between Creation & Discovery in " A Fractal Art Gallery"
• 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 domenico_nadile@hotmail.com has a small gallery of fractals created with Fractint.
• Theo Strich - "The Ostrich" has a gallery of some fractal landscapes and a few rather nice 2D fractal pictures.
• John Holder jholder@nospam.technocosm.org recently contacted me and informed me that a link I had for his 3D attractor images had expired. To quote John, "I have not been there for about 8 years - kind of scary". I appologize for the long dead link with a long dead phrase. Mea culpa! I sheepishly update with a new link to a document on his quest to produce fine quality shaded 3D attractors.
• Elena Novaretti from Rapallo Italy has created an extensive gallery of fractals that she has created on the Amiga platform with a fractal software program she developed called "ZoneXplorer".
• Giovanni De Caro has a collection of his fractal images available at his website. In Italian.
• Giorgio Perich from Trieste, Italy Has created a fractal gallery of some recent images created with "Fractint" and manipulated with "The Gimp".
• Marcelo Anelli from Caracas, Venezuela presents a broad selection of fractal images from a variety of fractal programs from his website. He also hosts the UltraFractal Database webpages.
• Vicky Brago-Mitchell vbrago@abm-enterprises.net presents "FRACTALS BY VICKY"
• Tyler MacDonald tyler@yi.org has assembled a series of fractal animations, primarily demonstrating how pertubation could be construed as a time axis in the mandelbrot universe.
• Fred Mitchell fred@biz.puissante.com has a site on Gravity Set fractals that he describes as "unique".

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Mĺnsson 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.
• Paul N. Lee Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net maintains a great list of currently available Fractal Software Programs for many different platforms.
• 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 Thore.Berntsen@vbd.no in Norway has a new version of his fractal screen saver program.
• 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.
• 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 released his fractal program called ChaosPro as freeware. It has many fine features including a fractint compatible formula parser. The latest version is ChaosPro version 3.2 and it can be downloaded from the website.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Paul de Leeuw pdeleeuw@telstra.com has created a fractal generation program called Manpwin that runs under Windows 95, 98, ME, 2K, XP and it's available from his homepage. It is a free program based loosely on FRACTINT but is a full 32 bit program with true colour support.
• Jean-Luc Romano http://sourceforge.net/users/jlromano/ Has written a simple, easy-to-use Mandelbrot/Julia fractal generator called JLRFractal. it is written in C++ using the Qt graphics libraries.
• Alex Pankratov Presents a page for "Yet Another Fractal Explorer (Yafe) ". It is an interactive fractal renderer for Windows and features extremely simple and intuitive user interface and is capable of producing mathematically-sound renderings.
• Robert Walker has announced two fractal programs. "Fractal Tune Smithy" and "Virtual Flower" The first is a Fractal music program and the second creates VRML based plant structures. Both are available from hist website.
• John F. Dumas presents his "Fract-O-Rama" fractal program and image site.

• Carl Burke cburke@mitre.org has a document on Fractals and Terrain Generation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Noel Giffin noel@triumf.ca Here are some slides and notes that I gave for an invited lecture titled An Introduction to Fractal Geometry I gave during the University of British Columbia, Spring 2001, semester.
• Jules Ruis Maintains an interesting collection of Documents and Links in the Fractal Arena at his www.fractal.org website.
• Jim Harris has developed a Macromedia flash website highlighting his interests in fractal architecture.

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.
• Ariel Dolan http://www.aridolan.com/ maintains The Alife Database which has references to many fractal and near related subject material.

Fractal Code examples

• 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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