Fractals with generativepy
Categories: generativepy generative art
You will probably be familiar with some of the most famous fractals, such as the Mandelbrot set, Sierpinski triangle, or Lorenz Attractor.
Types of fractal
There are a number of different types of fractals, but they all tend to have certain things in common:
- Fractals tend to have complex shapes.
- The shapes often possess infinite amounts of detail, which means that you can zoom in on the shape forever and there will always be more detail.
- They are often self-similar at different scales, that is as you zoom in the image will have similar features to the original image.
- They are often created by very simple formulas.
There are several different ways to create fractals:
- Strange attractors, such as the Tinkerbell fractal covered below.
- Escape time fractals, such as the Mandelbrot fractal also covered below.
- Iterated function systems
- Grammar based systems, such as L-systems and finite subdivision rules.
- Random fractals, such as fractal landscapes and diffusion limited aggregation.
We will cover strange attractors and escape time fractals in this section, because they have similar implementations.
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