Is there meaning in fractal analyses?

Complexity International

Volumn 6, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Jelinek, Herbert F ^a   Jones, Cameron L ^b   Warfel, Matthew D ^c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Mennonite Ctrl Committee Bolivia ^*  (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY; FRACTAL ANALYSES; FRACTAL HARMONICS; POLYGONAL HARMONICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY; SYNTACTICS;

FRACTALS;

EID: 4143111604     PISSN: 13200682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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