Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by bluetintedfort on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:55AM
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The sister paper[1] contains the fractal dimensions of some of the images using a boxcount paper.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:19AM
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Ah I had a quick read before I went to bed last night, missed that bit, cheers.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by bob88jg on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:13AM
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Thanks!! I was also under the impression Fractals required self similarity and not just infinite detail but glad to have that misconception corrected!
I think it probably stems from the fact that all the fractals, I have seen, for which the dimension can be analytically calculated do show obvious patterns of similarity at different scales.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:53AM
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Searching I stumbled over this paper[1], which I found interesting, on characterizing the fractal-ness of geological structures.
They point out that the usual measure of fractal dimension, or capacity dimension[2], doesn't consider the physical size of the features and can thus be inaccurate. Instead they suggest using the information dimension[3], which is bounded by the capacity dimension.
[1]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.05.008 (full text available on that hub of science)
[2]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CapacityDimension.html
[3]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/InformationDimension.html
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by tudorw on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:41PM
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Seems there are a few more, Higuchi Dimension, Box Counting Dimension (D0), Generalized Rényi Dimension and others are discussed mid-way through this;
https://medium.com/@h.a.papageorgiou/the-reality-of-the-ruli...
I recall similar tests being done on paintings by Pollock and of other artists trying to copy his style to determine authenticity[3].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension
[2]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html
[3]: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/e/12535...