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  Re: Heteromf: is it a fractal?  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 5 Jan 2001 04:27:04
Message: <3a559368$1@news.povray.org>
"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
news:3A54F817.35634205@my-dejanews.com...
>
> NOT SO with the heteromf. As you tell me, I'd need to keep fiddling with
the
> params as I zoomed deeper and deeper in.
>

But this is almost certainly what any fractal program - that's why they get
slower the more you zoom in. I know of no reasonable definition of a fractal
that doesn't imply an infinite amount of calculations for "perfection".

>
> Mandel has infinite; I didn't claim that all fractals had infinite.
>

... but you should. They do.


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