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Fractals

Author : Jens Feder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489921249
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Fractals written by Jens Feder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely little book will take off and fly on its own power, but the author has asked me to write a few words, and one should not say no to a friend. Specific topics in fractal geometry and its applications have already benefited from several excellent surveys of moderate length, and gossip and preliminary drafts tell us that we shall soon see several monographic treatments of broader topics. For the teacher, however, these surveys and monographs are not enough, and an urgent need for more helpful books has been widely recognized. To write such a book is no easy task, but Jens Feder meets the challenge head on. His approach combines the old Viking's willingness to attack many difficulties at the same time, and the modern Norwegian's ability to achieve fine balance between diverging needs. lowe him special gratitude for presenting the main facts about R/ S analysis of long-run dependence; now a wide scientific public will have access to a large group of papers of mine that had until this day remained fairly confidential. Last but not least, we are all grateful to Jens for not having allowed undue personal modesty to deprive us of accounts of his own group's varied and excellent work. He did not attempt to say everything, but what he said is just fine. Benoit B. Mandelbrot Physics Department, IBM Thomas J.

Fractal Landscapes

Author : Bill Hirst
Publisher : Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780948797248
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Fractal Landscapes written by Bill Hirst and published by Distributed Art Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the divide between art and science, this book presents a powerful visual case for recognising the fractal character of both natural and man-made landscapes. Photographs of complex and intricate landscapes - beautifully printed in tritone - are paired and grouped to demonstrate striking similarities between the large and the small, the natural and the man-made, and between widely separated sites. These similarities are too pervasive and too consistent to be dismissed as coincidental. They are evidence of a previously unsuspected organising process, through which structure and order can spontaneously emerge from chaos - contrary to past notions of entropy. Such ideas are at the heart of the new science of Complexity, in which mankind is fundamentally re-appraising its view of Nature and the origins of life itself.

Ludotopia

Author : Espen Aarseth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839447305
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Ludotopia written by Espen Aarseth and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featuring in most general theories of space to lay the groundwork for the study of spatiality in games. Shifting the focus away from earlier debates on, e.g., the narrative nature of games, this collection proposes, instead, that thorough attention be given to the tension between experienced spaces and narrated places as well as to the mapping of both of these.

The Fractal Forest

Author : Nancy D. Lorimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Fractal Forest written by Nancy D. Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complex Systems

Author : Russel J. Stonier
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051991864
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Complex Systems written by Russel J. Stonier and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years have seen an extraordinary growth in many areas of complex systems. In the field of synergetics and cooperative behaviour in neural systems a new vocabulary emerged to describe discoveries of wide-ranging and fundamental phenomena, like for example artificial life, biocomplexity, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals, learning systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel computation, percolation, self-organization.One of the contributing factors to this growth is the extraordinary increase in computing power. Previously intractable non-linear systems are now amenable to analysis and simulation and parallel computers are ever more important in these areas.The book contains papers exploring many aspects of complex systems, covering theory and applications and deal with material drawn from many different disciplines and specialities.

Fractal Worlds

Author : Michael Frame
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030019787X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Fractal Worlds written by Michael Frame and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame, a close collaborator with Benoit Mandelbrot, the founder of fractal geometry, and poet Amelia Urry explore the amazing world of fractals as they appear in nature, art, medicine, and technology

Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

Author : Kevin Gutzwiller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461300592
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Book Synopsis Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation by : Kevin Gutzwiller

Download or read book Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation written by Kevin Gutzwiller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a current synthesis of principles and applications in landscape ecology and conservation biology. Bringing together insights from leaders in landscape ecology and conservation biology, it explains how principles of landscape ecology can help us understand, manage and maintain biodiversity. Gutzwiller also identifies gaps in current knowledge and provides research approaches to fill those voids.

Recent Advances in the Theory and Application of Fitness Landscapes

Author : Hendrik Richter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642418880
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Advances in the Theory and Application of Fitness Landscapes by : Hendrik Richter

Download or read book Recent Advances in the Theory and Application of Fitness Landscapes written by Hendrik Richter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with recent advances in fitness landscapes. The concept of fitness landscapes originates from theoretical biology and refers to a framework for analysing and visualizing the relationships between genotypes, phenotypes and fitness. These relationships lay at the centre of attempts to mathematically describe evolutionary processes and evolutionary dynamics. The book addresses recent advances in the understanding of fitness landscapes in evolutionary biology and evolutionary computation. In the volume, experts in the field of fitness landscapes present these findings in an integrated way to make it accessible to a number of audiences: senior undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, theoretical biology, physics, applied mathematics and engineering, but also researcher looking for a reference or/and entry point into using fitness landscapes for analysing algorithms. Also practitioners wanting to employ fitness landscape techniques for evaluating bio- and nature-inspired computing algorithms can find valuable material in the book. For teaching proposes, the book could also be used as a reference handbook.

A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments

Author : Mark E. Jensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441986200
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments by : Mark E. Jensen

Download or read book A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments written by Mark E. Jensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich set of protocols for the process of assessing the ecological make-up of the land so as to guide environmental decision-making.

Chaos and Fractals

Author : Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475747403
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaos and Fractals by : Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Download or read book Chaos and Fractals written by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.

Fractals in Rock Mechanics

Author : Heping Xie
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000150348
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Rock Mechanics written by Heping Xie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important developments in the progress of the theory of rock mechanics during recent years are based on fractals and damage mechanics. The concept of fractals has proved to be a useful way of describing the statistics of naturally occurring geometrics. Natural objects, from mountains and coastlines to clouds and forests, are found to have boundaries best described as fractals. Fluid flow through jointed rock masses and clusterings of earthquakes are found to follow fractal patterns in time and space. Fracturing in rocks at all scales, from the microscale (microcracks) to the continental scale (megafaults), can lead to fractal structures. The process of diagenesis and pore geometry of sedimentary rock can be quantitatively described by fractals, etc. The book is mainly concerned with these developments, as related to fractal descriptions of fragmentations, damage and fracture of rocks, rock burst, joint roughness, rock porosity and permeability, rock grain growth, rock and soil particles, shear slips, fluid flow through jointed rocks, faults, earthquake clustering, and so on. The prime concerns of the book are to give a simple account of the basic concepts, methods of fractal geometry, and their applications to rock mechanics, geology, and seismology, and also to discuss damage mechanics of rocks and its application to mining engineering. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate students, by university teachers to prepare courses and seminars, and by active scientists who want to become familiar with a fascinating new field.

Learning Landscape Ecology

Author : Sarah E. Gergel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387216138
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Learning Landscape Ecology written by Sarah E. Gergel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with numerous exercises this practical guide provides a real hands-on approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The knowledge gained enables students to usefully address landscape- level ecological and management issues. A variety of approaches are presented, including: group discussion, thought problems, written exercises, and modelling. Each exercise is categorised as to whether it is for individual, small group, or whole class study.

Landscape Ecology

Author : Zev Naveh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475723318
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Ecology written by Zev Naveh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to the softcover edition of this book in 1989, we stated: Since the publication of the first edition of this book, landscape ecology has made great strides. It has overcome its continental isolation and has also established itself in the English-speaking world. By attracting both problem inquiry and problem-solving-oriented scientists with different cultural, academic, and profes sional backgrounds from all over the world, it has broadened not only its geo graphical but also its conceptual and methodological scopes. We are pleased to confirm in 1993 that the growth of landscape ecology continues, and to again express our gratification at the encouraging re sponse to this first English-language monograph on the subject and its contribution to these developments. As before, we feel special satisfac tion that it has reached not only the shelves of libraries and academic re searchers, but that it has also appealed to professional practitioners, teachers, and their students from industrialized and developing countries, embracing the broad range of fields related to landscape ecology in the natural sciences as well as in the humanities.

Applications of Fractals and Chaos

Author : A.J. Crilly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642780970
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Applications of Fractals and Chaos written by A.J. Crilly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications of Fractals and Chaos presents new developments in this rapidlydeveloping subject area. The presentation is more than merely theoretical, it specifically presents particular applications in a wide range of applications areas. Under the oceans, we consider the ways in which sponges and corals grow; we look, too, at the stability of ships on their surfaces. Land itself is modelled and applications to art, medicineand camouflage are presented. Readers should find general interest in the range of areas considered and should also be able to discover methods of value for their own specific areas of interest from studying the structure of related activities.

Killer Game Programming in Java

Author : Andrew Davison
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596552904
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Killer Game Programming in Java by : Andrew Davison

Download or read book Killer Game Programming in Java written by Andrew Davison and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the number of commercial Java games is still small compared to those written in C or C++, the market is expanding rapidly. Recent updates to Java make it faster and easier to create powerful gaming applications-particularly Java 3D-is fueling an explosive growth in Java games. Java games like Puzzle Pirates, Chrome, Star Wars Galaxies, Runescape, Alien Flux, Kingdom of Wars, Law and Order II, Roboforge, Tom Clancy's Politika, and scores of others have earned awards and become bestsellers.Java developers new to graphics and game programming, as well as game developers new to Java 3D, will find Killer Game Programming in Java invaluable. This new book is a practical introduction to the latest Java graphics and game programming technologies and techniques. It is the first book to thoroughly cover Java's 3D capabilities for all types of graphics and game development projects.Killer Game Programming in Java is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to program cool, testosterone-drenched Java games. It will give you reusable techniques to create everything from fast, full-screen action games to multiplayer 3D games. In addition to the most thorough coverage of Java 3D available, Killer Game Programming in Java also clearly details the older, better-known 2D APIs, 3D sprites, animated 3D sprites, first-person shooter programming, sound, fractals, and networked games. Killer Game Programming in Java is a must-have for anyone who wants to create adrenaline-fueled games in Java.

Introduction to Artificial Life

Author : Christoph Adami
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387946467
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Artificial Life written by Christoph Adami and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students, researchers and professional scientist eager to gain insight into the emerging frontiers of Artifical Life, Chris Adami's work provides the basic underpinnings for properly understanding this interdisciplinary research area. The CD-ROM accompanying the book invites readers to actively experience artificial evolution in "real time" by using a proprietary simulation software program, AVIDA, which is contained on the CD.

GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology

Author : Andrew C. Millington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461515238
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology by : Andrew C. Millington

Download or read book GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology written by Andrew C. Millington and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the conservation of tropical forests has received worldwide publicity whereas effective forest management, particularly for timber extraction, has attracted little attention and gained some notoriety. The overall aim of the present paper was to examine how environmental micro-variation in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve of Belize can influence species distribution and thereby inform management strategy. The paper deals first with the background to forest management in Belize, then considers the methodology used in the present study and fin~~ly assesses the preliminary results. The specific objectives are: (1) to assess the effects of changing scale on the variability of selected individual soil properties in forest plots within the same vegetation class; and (2) to examine the variation in soil properties and tree species distribution, and to integrate environmental and ecological data over a range of scales. BACKGROUND Whereas the global and regional distribution of tropical forests is broadly governed by climatic and altitudinal variation, individual forest tracts need to consider a range of other, locally important factors to explain species distribution and change. With very high species diversity, tropical forests present a major challenge in the attempt to unravel controlling factors in distribution and growth (Swaine et aI. 1987). Research that attempts to explain diversity has looked at species distribution according to a range of factors, with a general recognition that soil fertility plays a significant if ill defined role (Swaine 1996).