Generating Fractal-Like Surfaces on General Purpose Mesh-Connected Computers

  • Authors:
  • Michael Wainer

  • Affiliations:
  • Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Realistic images of natural surfaces are often generated using computationally expensive stochastic modeling techniques. A parallel procedure to generate such models is presented. The target machines are general-purpose mesh-connected computers. The complexity of the procedure is similar to that of a proposed special-purpose parallel fractal generator.