Last edited 12mar03 by andy schwieter

Andy Schwieter's Quarterly Report

In this past quarter, my programming skills have greatly improved. Before this class, I would have been unable to create any sort of program which involved graphics. Now, however, I feel that I have a relatively strong knowledge of basic programming in C with two dimensional graphics. I succeeded in creating the Mandelbrot set, but I am still working on the algorithm to do it more efficiently. My knowledge of fractals and the different methods used to create them has also grown greatly. Using the Sierpinski program, I experimented with the chaos game method of creating fractals, using 4 or 5 (or more) points instead of 3 and looking for attractors. I also experimented with changing the rules from 1/2 the distance to other ratios, such as 1/3. As to 3 dimensional graphics, the ultimate goal of my learning, I am still struggling to understand the skel. I can make slight modifications to it, yet cannot replace the torus with another mathematically-significant object, which is my current goal.