Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@googlemail.com> writes: > I think there are attempts to estimate the fractal dimension of a set > using a finite sample from this set. But I can't remember where I got > this thought from!
There are image data compression schemes that work like that, trying to detect self-similarity in the data. It can go the reverse way too. There was a program called Genuine Fractals that tried to increase the apparent resolution of photographs by adding artificial detail constructed from detected self-similarity. Its results were mixed, as I remember. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
