Fractal Creations/Book, Cd-Rom, Disk and 3-D Glasses

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A cool book that I wish the authors would update!.......2005-06-22

I really loved this book when it came out, and wish the authors would get together to update both the material in the book and the software that came with it to run on 'modern' computing equipment, (this was written when DOS was still king!) The book provided a really good, hands-on approach to fractal theory. It is a little light on application, but wasn't meant to have any of that, so I can forgive and forget. Moving down through to the borders of a Mandlebrot or Julia set in 16bit colour was amazing, and I would love to see what it would look like in the 16 million + colours available on computers today!

Fractals for the Macintosh/Book and Disk

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Fractals for the Macintosh/Book and Disk
Jesse Jones
Manufacturer: Waite Group Pr
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Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos/Book and Disk

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Fascinating book on computer generated art and music

Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos/Book and Disk
Julien Clinton Sprott
Manufacturer: M & T Books
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Fascinating book on computer generated art and music.......2007-03-12

In many ways, people largely stopped writing interesting programming books about ten years ago, once so much software became available to do so many jobs without us needing to be aware of the painful yet interesting details. This is a long out-of-print book on fractals that merges math, programming, music, and art into one interesting volume. And the kicker is that it cost me a tiny fraction of books that I have from the last couple of years that deliver little insight and page after page of application screen shots.

The book's main topic is producing art and music through that class of fractals known as strange attractors. Thus this book isn't your typical book on fractals that goes into the usual well-known fractal patterns. At the end of the day, you should know enough to produce an unlimited variety of patterns that in turn produce both visual and musical art. There is sufficient math in this book to understand the subject, but there is nothing beyond algebra. Although the book has many programs in it, the author is not assuming that you are an expert programmer. Because this book is 14 years old, the programs are in the BASIC programming language. However, the author has thoughtfully provided equivalent programs in C in one of the appendices. He has still another appendix that gathers together all of the mathematical equations discussed in the book. The book has numerous programming exercises, and so the appendix also has all of the programs that should result if you have done your work correctly. I'd recommend this book to anybody interested in computer generated art and music. The following is the table of contents:

CHAPTER 1: ORDER AND CHAOS
Predictability and Uncertainty; Bucks and Bugs; The Butterfly Effect; The Computer Artist;

CHAPTER 2: WIGGLY LINES
More Knobs to Twiddle; Randomness and Pseudo-randomness; What's in a Name?; The Computer Search; Wiggles on Wiggles; Making Music;

CHAPTER 3: PIECES OF PLANES
Quadratic Maps in Two Dimensions; The Butterfly Effect Revisited; Searching the Plane; The Fractal Dimension; Higher Order Disorder; Strange Attractor Planets; Designer Plaids; Strange Attractors that Don't; A New Dimension in Sound;

CHAPTER 4: ATTRACTORS OF DEPTH
Projections; Shadows; Bands; Colors; Characters; Anaglyphs; Stereo Pairs; Slices;

CHAPTER 5: THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Hyperspace; Projections; Other Display Techniques; Writing on the Wall; Murals and Movies; Search and Destroy;

CHAPTER 6: FIELDS AND FLOWS
Beam Me up Scotty!; Professor Lorenz and Dr. Rössler; Finite Differences; Flows in Four Dimensions; Strange Attractors that Aren't; Doughnuts and Coffee Cups;

CHAPTER 7: FURTHER FASCINATING FUNCTIONS
Steps and Tents; ANDs and ORs; Roots and Powers; Sines and Cosines; Webs and Wreaths; Swings and Springs; Roll Your Own;

CHAPTER 8: EPILOG
How Common is Chaos?; But is it Art?; Can Computers Critique Art?; What's Left to Do?; What Good is it?;

APPENDIXES
A. Annotated Bibliography
B. BASIC Program Listing
C. Other Computers and BASIC Versions
D. C Program Listing
E. Summary of Equations
F. Dictionaries of Strange Attractors

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Fractals in Science/Book and Disk
Armin Bunde
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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The fractal concept has become an important tool for understanding irregular complex systems in various scientific disciplines. This book discusses in great detail fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemisty, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models. 14 executable programs are included on a 3 1/2" MS-DOS diskette and run on any IBM or compatible computer.

The Desktop Fractal Design System Handbook : Macintosh Version 2.0, Book and Disk

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The Desktop Fractal Design System Handbook : Macintosh Version 2.0, Book and Disk
Michael F. Barnsley
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Teachers can use this with Jurassic Park.

Fractal Mania (Book and 5.25" Disk)
Phillip A. Laplante
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Teachers can use this with Jurassic Park........1997-04-28

I don't know much about computer programming, but I understood enough of this book to use it in the classroom to discuss chaos theory and fractals with high school sophomore English students reading Jurassic Park. The author gives some excellent examples of unstable systems and explains the genesis of fractals in comprehensible terms. Jurassic Park is the all-time great interdisciplinary novel, with applications to math, science, ethics, history, and computer science. And the big payoff is that the students enjoy it. This disk may not do all the fancy stuff, but it provides useful images that explain theories in a way we math-morons can understand. There's enough material for a good half-hour literature lesson; who knows what a math teacher could do with it

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Dated, but still an excellent way to learn about fractals

Fractals for Windows/Book and Disk
Tim Wegner , Bert Tyler , Mark Peterson , and Pieter Branderhorst
Manufacturer: Waite Group Pr
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Dated, but still an excellent way to learn about fractals.......2007-01-26

While the contents of this book are dated, in the year it was published, it was the best way to learn the mathematical foundations of fractals. Complete source code is included on the diskette and images of the results demonstrate the images. No programming is required of the reader, although the text shows what formulas are iterated and any additional mathematics considered significant. The first chapter is a primer, written at a level where only basic algebra is needed to understand it.
This is still one of the best ways to learn fractals, if you were to obtain a copy, the most significant hurdle would be finding a computer with a 3.5" drive.

Fractalvision: Put Fractals to Work for You/Book and Disk

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As time goes by , we know why?
A Masterwork with code for the future

Fractalvision: Put Fractals to Work for You/Book and Disk
Dick Oliver
Manufacturer: Sams Publishing
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ASIN: 0672302489

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As time goes by , we know why?.......2001-07-29

The computers we had when this book was first printed were slow and the graphics were pretty bad... yet the code and the explanations still work with some adjustments. His programs are still tight and his insight is still intense! Dick Oliver remains a teacher.

A Masterwork with code for the future.......1998-03-20

From the beginning with examples and code Oliver leads you through the fractal world. The gateway to understanding fractal compression and fractal dimension! Your unique Associates ID is: thefractaltransl.

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About the Series: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations-from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

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The quality of Balzac .......2004-11-02

This work is considered one of Balzac's masterpieces. It is written with this kind of energy and power the same kind of literary ambition that seems uniquely his. Balzac as a writer has a drive and strength , and this is felt in his descriptions of character as well as in the force of his plots. Here we have a variation of Lear, with two ungrateful daughters doing - in the over- solicitous father for whom the daughters are all. One of Balzac's central themes is obsession, the fixing on one particular object as one's life aim or meaning and giving all to it. For old Goriot it is his daughters, as for Balzac himself it is his ambition to capture the whole of his society in his novels. But the Balzac worlds and this in itself another long subject are also worlds in which traditional values are in clash with values of social climbing money grabbers as exemplified by Goriot's daughters. Balzac's works are filled with great dynamism and are for many one of the great peaks of world - literature. At least some of his works should be read by one who wishes to have a taste of the best that has been thought and said. I would only add my own personal reservation. That the energy and greed of so many of the characters in his world , has left me feeling a bit detached from them. I can admire this Literature but I have never especially loved the world or characters presented in it.

Caffeine Inspired Realism.......2002-12-10

You know right away that de Balzac is an author of realism when, at the start of the book, he takes you on a five page tour of the first floor of Madame Vauquer's Parisian boarding house. One immediately realizes that sanitation standards for such accommodations were seriously lacking. The dining room "table [was] covered with oilcloth so greasy that, if a waggish diner wanted to, he could write his name in it, using nothing more than his finger as a pen." We then quickly learn about the overwhelming contrast between the boarders' life style and that of aristocratic Parisian society..

The protagonists of the story are Eugene, a young and poor law student, and old man Goriot, the aging father of two narcissistic daughters who live in the upper strata of Parisian society. While many mediocre authors manage to make cardboard characters out of real people, Balzac has the task of making cardboard people real. Eugene is invited to a ball held by his cousin, a countess, and falls in love with the beautiful people and their world. He is determined to be a part of it. Vautrin, a fellow boarder, a wise street philosopher, and prototype for modern day CEOs, tells Eugene that money is everything. Eugene promptly appropriates every cent of his family's savings to buy the clothes that will allow him to blend in with the aristocracy. Soon he meets Goriot's aristocratic daughters and falls in love with one of them. These two grasping young ladies, in their need for the necessities in life (fine clothing and jewelry), have taken so much money from their formerly wealthy father that he now lives in abject poverty, sleeping on a moldy straw mattress in Madame Vauquer's boarding house.

By now I am sure that you have discerned Balzac's attitude toward the socially elite. He has no love for people who are famous for being famous. We should resist the urge, though, to shake our heads in wonder over these strange 19th century Parisians. If Balzac were alive today I am sure he would loosen his poison pen on our own celebrities whose meaningless lives are constantly being spotlighted during their fifteen minutes of fame. Balzac is a lively writer. He supposedly drank huge amounts of coffee every day, and his writing often seems to be the product of a highly caffeinated mind. If the highly stylized writing of some Victorian era writers numbs your brain you might want to dip into Balzac.

I strongly recommend that you consider purchasing the Norton Critical Edition of this novel. It provides an additional 150 pages of commentary on Balzac, this novel, and his oeuvre in general; an extra dollar or two well spent.

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Father Goriot [EasyRead Large Edition]
Honore de Balzac
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1425054951
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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‘Father Goriot’ is a highly dramatic and charged tale of a father’s unconditional love for his daughters and his sufferings.

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A romp of a good read!

Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Manufacturer: Hard Press
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ASIN: 140694744X
Release Date: 2006-11-03

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Eugene stared at his neighbor in dumb and dazed bewilderment. He thought of Vautrin, of that duel to be fought to-morrow morning, and of this realization of his dearest hopes, and the violent contrast between the two sets of ideas gave him all the sensations of nightmare. He went to the chimney-piece, saw the little square case, opened it, and found a watch of Breguet's make wrapped in paper, on which these words were written.

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A romp of a good read!.......2005-12-20

Balzac guided European fiction away from the overriding influence of Walter Scott and the Gothic school, by showing that modern life could be recounted as vividly as Scott recounted his historical tales, and that mystery and intrigue did not need ghosts and crumbling castles for props. Maupassant, Flaubert and Zola were writers of the next generation who were directly influenced by him, and Marcel Proust (that other weaver of a great tapestry) acknowledged his influence.

He is worth reading for pleasure as well as for his influence on European literature.

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The Cesspool That Is Paris
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Good Intro To French Lit

Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
Honore de Balzac
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A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entrée" into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."

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The Cesspool That Is Paris.......2006-08-28

Getting involved in the works of Balzac is like entering a magnificently equipped library with an insatiable appetite for books. His output was prodigious: novels, short stories, and essays, but it is primarily the HUMAN COMEDY for which he is best known. The complexity that is that book had its origins much earlier in his novel FATHER GORIOT (PERE GORIOT). Balzac liked to move characters back and forth from book to book like chess pieces. In much of his fiction, he places his characters in cities like Paris that are center of dissolution and corruption that test their moral mettle. Most often they fail, but it is in their failures that give his work their distinctive flavor.

Father Goriot is an old, sick pensioner who has raised his two daughters improperly such that they now return his earlier parental errors with daughterly ingratitude that elevates him to the status of a wounded Lear. He lives in a boarding house on the third floor, the cheapest floor. He had once been able to avoid the more expensive lower, but as he has given far too much of his dwindling resources to his greedy daughters, he is now facing poverty. This boarding house is a bustling center of activity, with Goriot only one part. A young and money hungry lawyer Eugene de Rastignac lives there too. He is handsome, witty, and definitely willing to bend a few rules to advance in the cesspool that is Parisian society. Eugene becomes the lover to one of Goriot's wealthy daughters, hoping that she can open doors to him that might otherwise have been closed. This daughter Delphine is only slightly less mercenary than her sister Anastasie, with whom Delphine is not on speaking terms. A friend of Eugene, Vautrin, who is aware of Eugene's poverty, offers to kill the brother of a woman that Eugene is dating, thus ensuring that in the event of a marriage, Eugene will marry into money. The primary focus of the story is on the disintegrating relation between Goriot and his daughters. They take his money until there is no more. For his part, Goriot remains inexplicably oblivious to their machinations. When he dies, both daughters find reasons not to attend the funeral which only Eugene attends. FATHER GORIOT is a novel of pessimism. It is not an unpleasant read, just an unpleasant topic, yet in Balzac's dramatic portrayal of the origins and consequences of greed and betrayal, it shows the depths to which people may plunge, while an uncaring city does little more than sit back and not take notice.

Awesome!.......2005-09-26

This seller sent me an awesome copy of this book. The binding wasn't even cracked and it was this vintage edition. And the book was sent rather quickly!

Good Intro To French Lit.......2005-08-10

Hesitant at first, I rapidly developed an interest in the book. On the surface it provides a snapshot of Paris in the early 1800s. Dig a little deeper and you get a feel for what de Balzac called "The Human Comedy." Would recommend a few minutes on the internet researching the author before you begin this book. Understanding de Balzac and the place "Pere Goriot" occupies in his rich collection of books adds to the enjoyment. A very good read.

Balzac's Works: Volume V: Scenes From Private Life: Father Goriot, The Unconscious Humorists, Gaudissart the Great

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Balzac's Works: Volume V: Scenes From Private Life: Father Goriot, The Unconscious Humorists, Gaudissart the Great
Honore De Balzac
Manufacturer: The Century Co.
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FATHER GORIOT
Honore Balzac
Manufacturer: Gebbie Publishing
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ASIN: B000IOG61U

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FATHER GORIOT

Manufacturer: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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Father Goriot
de Honore Balzac
Manufacturer: IndyPublish
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Father Goriot
H. de Balzac
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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Father Goriot [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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Father Goriot [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Honore de Balzac
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ASIN: 1425054412
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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‘Father Goriot’ is a highly dramatic and charged tale of a father’s unconditional love for his daughters and his sufferings.

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