Coding and distance calculating of separately random fractals and application to generating river networks

Fractals

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-71

  Hung, Chun P O ^a   Wang, Ru Yih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coding Method; Random Fractals; River Network; Self Similar; Width Function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); FUNCTIONS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; NUMBER THEORY; PROBABILITY; RIVERS;

CODING METHOD; RANDOM FRACTALS; RIVER NETWORKS; SELF-SIMILAR PATTERNS; WIDTH FUNCTION;

FRACTALS;

EID: 17044369995     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X05002738     Document Type: Article

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