tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780231237955371409.post5691490008498190321..comments2012-03-27T07:10:12.208-05:00Comments on Journal of Frivolous Complexity: GPS, linear algebra, and fractals in computer graphicsfirstbasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14590839226950127880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780231237955371409.post-34251381166948734702008-09-26T11:34:00.000-05:002008-09-26T11:34:00.000-05:00Well i stumbled across this doing research on a fr...Well i stumbled across this doing research on a fractal program I am writing. It is not a 3-d landscape generation program but I can shed some light on your questions. Algorithms to generation fractal mountains and islands and so on are relatively simple and a google search would find all kinds of examples and code and so on. As to the Hausdorff dimesnion, yes fractals of this sort do have fractional dimensions and so probably there is some justification to the use of the term "2 and 1/2" dimensions by the 3-d graphics artist you mention. However the exact dimension of any particular landscape looking fractal is unlikely to be 2 and 1/2 exactly and would need to be calculated or approximated for that particular image to get a real value for its dimension.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com