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What is a Fractal? Aristid Lindenmeyer Fractal Landscapes In the following slides we will see some landscapes that are progressively more complex. These landscapes are NOT drawings. They are created entirely by a computer using “fractal interpolation.” This is the procedure that is used by special effects artists to create computer generated scenes for the big screen. (“Independence Day” was full of them.) Of course, mine are much cruder than theirs. They were produced in about an hour on my (ancient) pentium computer at home by a program called VISTAPRO. A fractal is a mathematical ob