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CS 563 Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics Fractal Butterfly Patterns Project  by Guy Mann

Goals Create Fractal Pattern from Fractal pattern for a butterfly wing Map the Pattern to a Wing Shape for the forewings and hindwings of a butterfly

Fractal

Fractal Pattern

Combination pattern Patterns combined into a single bitmap image

Pattern Mapping Pattern Mapping is done by using the alpha maps below Alpha maps are just BMPs with the white portion defining the wing The Fractal Wing Pattern is placed row-wise into the alpha map

Results

Results

References Stanford University, Procedural Butterflies, [Online] Available: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/bobl/imagergallery/main/top.html, [February 2003] Wen-Kai Dai, Ruei-Chuan Chang, and Zen-Chung Shih Fractal pattern for a butterfly wing. The Visual Computer, Springer-Verlag :1995 Adrian Porter, Newton's Method, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology [Online] Available: http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/superap/web/aporter/scpics8.html