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Bug#435002: ITP: randim -- Random Image Generation using Iterated Function Systems



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : randim
   Version         : 0.5
   Upstream Author: Adrian Robert <arobert@interstitiality.net>
* 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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