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Fractal Information at Other Sites

• Check out the New Docs section of "What Is New" at Spanky page.
• Michael Barnsley's website for Iterated Systems Inc. is 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 <bob@bu.edu> 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 worth visiting.
• 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 <sfinch@mathsoft.com> at mathsoft let me know of a document discussing Traveling Salesman Constants which give rise to some very familiar fractal structure.
• Yuval Fisher's website 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 website of the Fractal Research Initiative is 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 "Fractal Image Format" (FIF) 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 <green@lan.tjhsst.edu>, and Keith Bergstresser <kbergstr@lan.tjhsst.edu>.
• Novak <novak@kingston.ac.uk> hosts a page for Fractal 97 "Fractals in the Natural and Applied Sciences" which was the 4th International Multidisciplinary Working Conference 8 - 11 April 1997, Denver, Colorado, USA.

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Note:

This collection of pointers is constantly growing and changing.   I try to keep all the information current and the links accurate and up-to-date.   The nature of the Web makes this a difficult task.   Many pages have a short life, or service is intermittent or switched to another server.   If you find a reference here that is consistently unavailable for an extended period of time, or just plain wrong, please email me and I will either correct it if I can, or remove it.   Also, if you have created a new page with some interesting fractal information and want to have it posted here, I will gladly make an insertion to the list.