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 ...

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 ...