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Subject: sci.fractals FAQ
Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about Fractals
Keywords: fractals Mandelbrot Julia chaos IFS

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Last-modified: March 8, 1998
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Copyright: Copyright 1997-1998 by Michael C. Taylor and Jean-Pierre Louvet
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sci.fractals FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Volume 5 Number 3
Date March 8, 1998

Introduction

This FAQ is posted monthly to sci.fractals, a Usenet newsgroup about fractals; mathematics and software. This document is aimed at being a reference about fractals, including answers to commonly asked questions, archive listings of fractal software, images, and papers that can be accessed via the Internet using FTP, gopher, or World-Wide-Web (WWW), and a bibliography for further readings.

The FAQ does not give a textbook approach to learning about fractals, but a summary of information from which you can learn more about and explore fractals.

This FAQ is posted monthly to the Usenet newsgroups: sci.fractals ("Objects of non-integral dimension and other chaos"), sci.answers, and news.answers. Like most FAQs it can be obtained freely with a WWW browser (such as Mosaic or Netscape), or by anonymous FTP from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/fractals-faq (USA). It is also available from ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/newsarchive/news.answers/sci/fractals-faq.gz (Europe), http://graffiti.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/louvet/sci.fractals-faq/faq.html (France) and http://www.mta.ca/~mctaylor/sci.fractals-faq/ (Canada).

Those without FTP or WWW access can obtain the FAQ via email, by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the message:

send usenet/news.answers/sci/fractals-faq

Suggestions, Comments, Mistakes

Please send suggestions and corrections about the sci.fractals FAQ to fractal-faq@. Without your contributions, the FAQ for sci.fractals will not grow in its wealth. "For the readers, by the readers." Rather than calling me a fool behind my back, if you find a mistake, whether spelling or factual, please send me a note. That way readers of future versions of the FAQ will not be misled. Also if you have problems with the appearance of the hypertext version. There should not be any Netscape only markup tags contained in the hypertext verion, but I have not followed strict HTML 3.2 specifications. If the appearance is "incorrect" let me know what problems you experience.

Why the different name?

The old Fractal FAQ about fractals has not been updated for over two years and has not been posted by Dr. Ermel Stepp, in as long. So this is a new FAQ based on the previous FAQ's information and the readers of primarily sci.fractals with contributions from the FRAC-L and Fractal-Art mailing lists. Thus it is now called the sci.fractals FAQ.

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