FERN
The Barnsley Fractal Fern

FERN, a MATLAB program which uses MATLAB graphics to display the Barnsley fractal fern.

Usage:

fern ( point_num )

• point_num is the number of points to draw;

Licensing:

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

Languages:

FERN is available in a C version and a C++ version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

fern_test

FERN_OPENGL, a C++ program which uses OpenGL to display the Barnsley fractal fern.

MANDELBROT, a MATLAB program which generates an ASCII PPM image of the Mandelbrot fractal set;

RANMAP, a FORTRAN90 program which creates PostScript images of iterated affine mappings, including the Barnsley fractal fern and the Levy dragon.

Reference:

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

Source Code:

• fern.m, the source code;
• timestamp.m, prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.