I recently watched a PBS special on Benoit Mandelbrot and fractals. In the 1980's, there was a lot of exciting work being done on fractal compression for images ...

Fractals are geometric objects that are exactly self-similar and have a fractional (Hausdorff) dimension. Consequently, they contain an infinite amount of detail. However, they can be described by a ...

The contractive affine transformations and the compression methods that they give rise to have all been in terms of binary images. A grey level image can be dealt with in a number of different ways ...

Always-on GPS is the next big innovation in mobile phones, coupled with better graphics processors, but the biggest limitation will always be the speed of the wireless links, Mike Bryant, CTO of ...

Once you start the application, you will see a screen that looks like Figure 1. Click the Open button, and you will see a window like in Figure 2. Start by opening a bitmap. The bitmap must be 256 by ...

How long is a country’s border? That’s the seemingly simple question mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson asked himself more than 75 years ago. The thing that puzzled him was that the length of the ...