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Drawing Flame Fractals


I am looking for information on how to draw flame fractals from googling around I could not find much, either pages explain how to use third party tools or way too complicated for me to grasp. Anyone know how/why they work? or point me in the direction of not overly complicated implementations?


Solution

  • I have written a beamer presentation that covers the basics in flame fractals:

    https://www.math.upenn.edu/~peal/files/Fractals[2009]Beamer[Eng]-PAXINUM.pdf

    All images are done from my java implementation of the flame algorithm.

    The source code can be found here:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/flamethyst/

    I believe that the pdf http://flam3.com/flame_draves.pdf together with the implementation in java above should get you a long way.