Christmas Chaos

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From: Timothy Wegner
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:15

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The latest Scientific American has some great fractals in a section called
"Christmas Chaos". They are "Lorenz" type orbit fractals, and they look
incredibly easy to code. I tried the three-way-symmetry formula and got it
"working" in a few minutes (added it to Fractint using the "lorenz" engine)
but it didn't give any decent image at all. If anyone has any hints please
email me. Probably some simple thing I overlooked, but the fractal formulas
are so straight-forward it is hard to see where I went wrong. Only thing I
can think of is that the viewing region in the complex plane was not given,
and I was using something like an origin-centered box roughly 16 on a side.

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Tim Wegner     Fractint co-author
Internet: twegner@mwunix.mitre.org  Compuserve: 71320.675@compuserve.com

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From: twegner@mwunix.mitre.org (Timothy Wegner)
Subject: Christmas Chaos
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Summary: Request for "Christmas Chaos" code hints
Keywords: symmetry scientific american lorenz fractals
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