Oct 24, 20061
Where There’s Math, There’s Fire
Tags: Art, Graphics, Math
I’m always on the lookout for a good screensaver. And mathematically-defined flames just seem too good to pass up. These tasty little bits of eye candy are based on the work of Michael Barnsley from Georgia Tech (One of my freshman calculus instructors, incidentally) who invented Iteratted Function System fractals, which were used by Scott Draves in 1992 to make artificial flames. These examples were made by rajah, and you can see many more examples and animations here and here.





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Anonymous
Just delightful both. This is becoming stuff for a book. Phil
Oct 24th, 2006
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