Flame Fractal Resources

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Flame Fractal

I have been searching about flame fractals for a week now. But i can't seem to find any implementations or info on them other types of fractals ( mandelbrot,sierpinski vs.) have implemented multiple times. Everybody refers to the original paper, i have read the original paper but i still can't grasp how it works. Can somebody point me any resources or implementations of flame fractals?

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I have made an implementation in Java:

http://www2.math.su.se/~per/files.php?file=Paxiflame[2009]JavaSource[Eng]-PAXINUM.tar

The following features exists:

• Run from terminal.
• Produces PNG images.
• Uses gamma computation for better color, (as suggested in original paper).
• Color depending on last used functions, (asiop).
• Buckets with changable size, for antialiasing, (asiop).
• Some non-linear functions (Sinusodial, Fisheye, etc), (asiop).
• There are some short examples that generates a random flame, the sierpinski triangle, and a fern.

Look in Computator.java that do the auto focusing and the iterations, and FlameRenderer.java that converts the RawData into an image.

Known bugs:

• Number of iterations can only be MAX_INTEGER, and there is only rudimentary error handling.
• Only png files are supported output.

I hope it will help you, and I'm open for improvements.