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What are flame fractals?

April 26, 2017flame fractals

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What are flame fractals?

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From a theoretical point of view, “flame” fractals are not a distinct type of fractal. Michael Sargent has made a freeware named QS Flame to port the initial Scott Draves’s code to Windows. Recently, flame fractals have become the object of a renewed interest because a Kay Power Tools plug-in for Photoshop offers powerful graphic capabilities (see 6d). But this solution is quite expensive. Excerpts from the help file of the program QS Flame (by courtesy of Michael Sargent): Flame images are combinations of chaotic attractors which are generated by an Iterated Function System (IFS) technique. The original flame program was created by Scott Draves for the UNIX-like GNU platform in 1992. His Web site (Flame index: http://draves.org/flame/) contains many beautiful examples of flame images, as well as considerable information about the process of rendering them… Unlike most methods for rendering images of attractors, which use one formula and one set of related parameters, the flame techn