Fractal IFS Educational AppIterated Fractal Systems are a great way to engage a student's artistic side as they play with the numbers to generate different pictures. The model is simple in which you start with a 1x1 square and can do transformations like scale, move, resize, rotate. Then iterate the pattern a set number of times. I was entrusted the IFS VB6 app at a fractal workshop. (That's me with Benoit Mandelbrot) I evolved the app over many years and helped my father use it in various university classes and math workshops. It was also featured in a math journal. To make it easier to install on school networks and remove the step to upload rendered images, I ported it to Javascript as a plugin to my custom CMS. |
