Foreword |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction / Chapter I: |
Metric Spaces; Equivalent Spaces; Classification of Subsets; and the Space of Fractals / Chapter II: |
Spaces / 1.: |
Metric Spaces / 2.: |
Cauchy Sequences, Limit Points, Closed Sets, Perfect Sets, and Complete Metric Spaces / 3.: |
Compact Sets, Bounded Sets, Open Sets, Interiors, and Boundaries / 4.: |
Connected Sets, Disconnected Sets, and Pathwise-Connected Sets / 5.: |
The Metric Space (H (X), h): The Place Where Fractals Live / 6.: |
The Completeness of the Space of Fractals / 7.: |
Additional Theorems about Metric Spaces / 8.: |
Transformations on Metric Spaces; Contraction Mappings; and the Construction of Fractals / Chapter III: |
Transformations on the Real Line |
Affine Transformations in the Euclidean Plane |
Mobius Transformations on the Riemann Sphere |
Analytic Transformations |
How to Change Coordinates |
The Contraction Mapping Theorem |
Contraction Mappings on the Space of Fractals |
Two Algorithms for Computing Fractals from Iterated Function Systems |
Condensation Sets / 9.: |
How to Make Fractal Models with the Help of the Collage Theorem / 10.: |
Blowing in the Wind: The Continous Dependence of Fractals on Parameters / 11.: |
Chaotic Dynamics on Fractals / Chapter IV: |
The Addresses of Points on Fractals |
Continuous Transformations from Code Space to Fractals |
Introduction to Dynamical Systems |
Dynamics on Fractals: Or How to Compute Orbits by Looking at Pictures |
Equivalent Dynamical Systems |
The Shadow of Deterministic Dynamics |
The Meaningfulness of Inaccurately Computed Orbits is Established by Means of a Shadowing Theorem |
Fractal Dimension / Chapter V: |
The Theoretical Determination of the Fractal Dimension |
The Experimental Determination of the Fractal Dimension |
The Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension |
Fractal Interpolation / Chapter VI: |
Introduction: Applications for Fractal Functions |
Fractal Interpolation Functions |
The Fractal Dimension of Fractal Interpolation Functions |
Hidden Variable Fractal Interpolation |
Space-Filling Curves |
Julia Sets / Chapter VII: |
The Escape Time Algorithm for Computing Pictures of IFS Attractors and Julia Sets |
Iterated Function Systems Whose Attractors Are Julia Sets |
The Application of Julia Set Theory to Newton's Method |
A Rich Source for Fractals: Invariant Sets of Continuous Open Mappings |
Parameter Spaces and Mandelbrot Sets / Chapter VIII: |
The Idea of a Parameter Space: A Map of Fractals |
Mandelbrot Sets for Pairs of Transformations |
The Mandelbrot Set for Julia Sets |
How to Make Maps of Families of Fractals Using Escape Times |
Measures on Fractals / Chapter IX: |
Introduction to Invariant Measures on Fractals |
Fields and Sigma-Fields |
Measures |
Integration |
The Compact Metric Space (P (X), d) |
A Contraction Mapping on (P (X)) |
Elton's Theorem |
Application to Computer Graphics |
Recurrent Iterated Function Systems / Chapter X: |
Fractal Systems |
Collage Theorem for Recurrent Iterated Function Systems |
Fractal Systems with Vectors of Measures as Their Attractors |
References |
Selected Answers |
Index |
Credits for Figures and Color Plates |
Foreword |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction / Chapter I: |