(with
Fractint 19.5 the image is less symetric than with Fractint 18.2 !)The book Fractals Everywhere of Dr. Barnsley is the source of several types of fractals adopted by Fractint.
Barnsley introduced the theory of Iterated function systems (IFS): with
a small set of affine transformations it is possible to generate every
type of self-similar fractals. The most frequent examples in the book are
ferns and Sierpinski triangles.
Based on IFS, Barnsley has a patent for an algorithm that compresses every
picture to FIF: fractal image format.
Fractint allows to generate some types of fern fractals; but the examples below have nothing to do with IFS, they are just variations of the classical function f(z)=z2+c for the Mandelbrot set.
(with
Fractint 19.5 the image is less symetric than with Fractint 18.2 !)
Fractint's
color-cycling shows the 'geyser-effect'.
