fern


fern, an Octave code which computes and displays the Barnsley fractal fern.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

fern is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

fern_test

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Reference:

  1. Michael Barnsley,
    Fractals Everywhere,
    Academic Press, 1988,
    ISBN: 0120790696,
    LC: QA614.86.B37.
  2. Cleve Moler,
    Experiments with MATLAB,
    ebook: https://www.mathworks.com/moler/exm/index.html

Source Code:


Last revised on 18 January 2019