What are the main different types of fractal images?
Fractals can be subdivided into several groups. The following list does not pretend to be exhaustive. • Fractals derived from standard geometry by using iterative transformations on an initial common figure like a straight line (the Cantor dust or the von Koch curve), a triangle (the Sierpinsky triangle), or a cube (the Menger sponge). The first fractal figures invented near the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries belong to this group. • IFS (iterate function systems). • Strange attractors. • Flame fractals. • L-system fractals. • Fractals created by the iteration of complex polynomials: perhaps the most famous fractals. • Quaternionic and (recently) hypernionic fractals. • Fractal terrains generated by random fractal processes.
