Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : randim
Version : 0.5
Upstream Author: Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://interstitiality.net/ifs_f.html
* License : GNU GPL
Description : Random Image Generation using Iterated Function
Systems
This is an interactive fractal image generation program based on the
theory of iterated function systems as developed by M. F. Barnsley
(1988).
One well-known and remarkable image generated by this method is a
detailed
picture of a fern leaf (see, e.g., Gleick, 1987). It is remarkable
because
despite the amazing degree of detail present in the image -- enough to
render
it practically indistinguishable from a silhouette of the actual
natural shape
-- it is specified by just 4 sets of 6 numbers, each specified by one
or two
digits only. Roughly 80 bits of information to specify a complex
natural
shape! Perhaps even more amazing is the way in which these numbers
are used
to generate the image.
For the impatient:
http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian/randim/ (not quite finished, but working)
There's already a similiar program in Debian called evolvotron if
you're interested
in this sort of image generation...
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