Fractal-based analysis and interpolation of 3D natural surface shapes and their application to terrain modeling

The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Paul Longley · 1982 · 5.5K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +7

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Computing, Computer Science, Visualization +12

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Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +8

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Alex Pentland · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1984 · 1.8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Graphics +16

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Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +10