I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources to find out about the maths behind fractals - not just how to make them. I tried searching the internet but all of what I returned was irrelavent, and, schools in Britain being what they are my maths teacher is incredibly overworked but she did like Caedes.net. Yay! another convert.

I don't know. Try a google search

http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/chaosmth.html

Yes...search google for Chaos Theory. That will take you to a whole load of sites concerning fractal math/ trigonometry. =0)

LOL! Decided to peek in on one of these discussions. No question, the math behind fractals is very complex. I'm in awe of the people who come up with these formulas...Not my forte, I'm afraid. <G>
Wendy

"Chaos and Fractals, the Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics" by the American Mathematical Society, Vol 39. ISBN 0-8218-0137-6

It breaks down a lot of the common formulas and explains what's going on in fractals from a mathematical approach. Decent amount of illustrations, both color and b/w, plus a lot of math formulas written down and covered, sometimes in 3d drawings to explain them better.

A background in math helps because parts of it are technical in approach.

Thankyou all

Having a look on google about chaos and complex numbers I came up with this if anyone else is interested

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/53831.html

Very complicated :)

"Basically, any graph of a chaotic process is
likely to be a fractal, and every fractal is the graph of some chaotic
process." - The definition of a fractal, from the above link.

The math behind fractals makes my brain hurt. To many imaginary numbers. I think I'd like to take an Advanced Calculus class before I tried tackling those again...