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More Winterim 2009 Fractals : These fractals were created by the 2009 Fantastic Fractals Winterim class using a program called Tierazon, written by Stephen Ferguson. Each fractal is generated by iterating a particular function in the complex plane. In this plane, the x-axis is the real number line, and the y-axis is the imaginary number line. The different colors represent the number of iterations necessary to determine if a point "escapes" or is a "prisoner". Framed prints of these fractals, along with background information for each one, are on display in the Ann Scott Carell Library on the Harpeth Hall campus.

More Winterim 2009 Fractals

These fractals were created by the 2009 Fantastic Fractals Winterim cl ...

Updated: Feb 02, 2009 5:53am PST

More Winterim 2009 Fractals : These are all Julia sets, named for the French mathematician, Gaston Julia, who first discovered them in 1918. We have not been able to see them in all their detail until the advent of computers. These images were created by the Fantastic Fractals class of 2009 using the computer program Winfeed, which was written by Richard Parris, of Philips Exeter Academy.

More Winterim 2009 Fractals

These are all Julia sets, named for the French mathematician, Gaston J ...

Updated: Jan 14, 2009 7:12pm PST

Winterim 2009 Fractals : These images were created by the students in Mr. Wert's "Fantastic Fractals" Winterim course. They are all examples of Iterated Function Systems, which plot hundreds of thousands of random points, and then apply certain transformations to them. For example, one transformation might be to move a point three pixels to the left, and another transformation would rotate a set of points 45 degrees. By assigning different probabilities to various transformations, and different colors to frequencies of "hits", these figures are created. The software used in this project is Apophysis v2.02, freeware that was written by Mark Townsend and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys and Ronald Hordijk.

Winterim 2009 Fractals

These images were created by the students in Mr. Wert's "Fantastic Fra ...

Updated: Jan 12, 2009 7:06am PST

Winterim 2007 Fractals II : These fractals are generated by iterating simple functions, and seeing whether the values of the iterations "escape" to infinity or are trapped. The number of iterations necessary to determine this decides how the colors are distributed. The key to generating these infinitely complex pictures is the fact that they are plotted in the complex plane, where the x-axis represents the real number line, and the y-axis represents the imaginary number line. The software used in this project was Tierazon v2.7, written by Stephen Ferguson.

Winterim 2007 Fractals II

These fractals are generated by iterating simple functions, and seeing ...

Updated: Jan 29, 2007 11:36am PST

Winterim 2007 Fractals I : These images were created by the students in Mr. Wert's "Fantastic Fractals" Winterim course. They are all examples of Iterated Function Systems, which plot hundreds of thousands of random points, and then apply certain transformations to them. For example, one transformation might be to move a point three pixels to the left, and another transformation would rotate a set of points 45 degrees. By assigning different probabilities to various transformations, and different colors to frequencies of "hits", these figures are created. The software used in this project is Apophysis v2.02, freeware that was written by Mark Townsend and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys and Ronald Hordijk.

Winterim 2007 Fractals I

These images were created by the students in Mr. Wert's "Fantastic Fra ...

Updated: Jan 12, 2007 10:12am PST

Media Arts Gallery 2005 : Fourteen examples of student work from Media Arts classes. Note: Some student work was intentionally controversial, and does not necessarily reflect the views of The Harpeth Hall School, it's faculty or administators. Photos by Joe Croker.

Media Arts Gallery 2005

Fourteen examples of student work from Media Arts classes. Note: Some ...

Updated: Oct 05, 2006 7:39am PST

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