Title: New book: "Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design" Post by: ErkDemon on January 18, 2011, 12:55:00 AM Hi All!
Just thought I’d let you all know that I’ve got a book out today: “Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design” ISBN 0955706831 It’s a round-up of a range of fractal types, with an emphasis on “alternative” versions and some of the more obscure info (hence the name). It misses out a few major items, like the Cantor ternary set (too boring), and the Newtonian fractal. I really like the Newty fractal, and think it's really pretty, but I couldn’t think of anything fresh to say about it and pagespace was tight, so out it went. 250+ main diagrams, so there’s probably going to be something in there that’s new or undocumented, through sheer statistics! :). Figures are mono/greyscale, and there’s not much text, I wanted the point of the book to be the diagrams and pictures rather than text descriptions. It's mostly accessible to newbies (just pictures and how-to diagrams), but a little bit of 4D theory stuff snuck in. There's some discussion of "atomistic" fractals (fractals that have a lower limit, you zoom in, and zoom in, and eventually ... bonk, you hit a brick wall), which I haven't seen discussed elsewhere much. I might start a discussion topic here on them here if people are interested. Eric Title: Re: New book: "Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design" Post by: cKleinhuis on January 18, 2011, 01:04:07 AM great news, and hello to the forums, allow me to put the amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Alt-Fractals-Visual-Fractal-Geometry-Design/dp/0955706831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1295309004&sr=8-1 Title: Re: New book: "Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design" Post by: ErkDemon on January 30, 2011, 10:39:57 PM Thanks, cKleinhuis!
I did think of adding a link, but I wasn't sure about forum etiquette. For what it's worth, the book's blog is at: http://alt-fractals.blogspot.com/ (http://alt-fractals.blogspot.com/) Title: Re: New book: "Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design" Post by: bib on January 30, 2011, 11:31:18 PM There's some discussion of "atomistic" fractals (fractals that have a lower limit, you zoom in, and zoom in, and eventually ... bonk, you hit a brick wall), which I haven't seen discussed elsewhere much. I might start a discussion topic here on them here if people are interested. Please do. I often think about this when: 1/ I do deep zooms 2/ I think about fractals properties of subsets of the integers Welcome to the forums and congratulations for your book :) Title: Re: New book: "Alt.Fractals: A visual guide to fractal geometry and design" Post by: LMarkoya on September 26, 2014, 02:57:18 PM I've had this book for some time and can reccommend it highly....nice piece of work...and a great reference for those of us that are not quite in the fractal genius and scholar like many on here |