The aesthetics and fractal dimension of electric sheep

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1243-1248

  Draves, Scott ^a   Abraham, Ralph ^b   Viotti, Pablo ^c   Abraham, Frederick David ^d   Sprott, Julian Clinton ^e  

^a Spotworks   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Waterbury Center   (United States)

^e Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric sheep; Fractal dimensions

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHIES; FRACTALS;

AESTHETIC JUDGMENTS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; ELECTRIC SHEEP; FRACTAL IMAGES; ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM; SCREEN-SAVERS; U-SHAPED;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 45449098253     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408020975     Document Type: Article

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