FERN
The Barnsley Fractal Fern Using OpenGL


FERN is a MATLAB program which uses MATLAB graphics to display the Barnsley fractal fern.

Usage:

fern ( point_num )
where

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

FERN is available in a C++ version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

MANDELBROT, a MATLAB program which generates an ASCII PPM image of the Mandelbrot set;

RANMAP, a FORTRAN90 program which creates PostScript images of iterated affine mappings, including the Barnsley fractal fern and the Levy dragon.

Reference:

  1. Michael Barnsley,
    Fractals Everywhere,
    Academic Press, 1988,
    ISBN: 0120790696,
    LC: QA614.86.B37.
  2. Cleve Moler,
    Experiments with MATLAB,
    ebook: http://www.mathworks.com/moler/exm/index.html

Source Code:

You can go up one level to the MATLAB source codes.


Last revised on 15 May 2011.