Making Fractals with MetaPost
I’ve played a lot with
MetaPost today — I’ve
been making fractals. It’s a lot of fun to make graphics with
MetaPost, and making
the fractals was no exception.
I’ve made three kinds of fractals: Koch Curves, Hilbert Curves and finally the one shown at the right, Sierpinski’s Sieve. The last one is also know as Sierpinski’s Triangle, for obvious reasons.
You can download the sourcecode and a document here:
/downloads/metafractals/. If you’re trying
to remake the document, then please note that the images are called
filenameN.mps instead of just filename.N. This is because PDFLaTeX
works best with those filenames. So you’ll have to rename the files
generated by MetaPost
before running LaTeX/PDFLaTeX. If you’re
running Zsh, then you could use this very little
shell-script:
#!/bin/zsh
for basename in $*; do
mpost $basename
for file in ${basename%.mp}.<0->; do
mv $file ${file/./}.mps
done
done
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5 January 2008, 12:28 pmKristabelle:
Woot, I will crtaeilny put this to good use!
14 August 2011, 3:02 pm