LevyCurve.cpp File Reference

Draws Levy Curve with the Chaos Game algorithm. More...

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Detailed Description

Draws Levy Curve with the Chaos Game algorithm.

Author

Mitch Richling http://www.mitchr.me/

Standards

C++23

See also

https://www.mitchr.me/SS/LevyCurveChaosGame/index.html

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Details

A chaos game that generates a Levy Curve:

Start at a random point. Randomly select one of two transformations, and transform the point. Repeat this process with the new point. The two transformations are given by:

\[ \begin{array}{ll} T_1(\vec{x}) & = \left[ {\begin{array}{rr} \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2} \\ -\frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2} \\ \end{array} } \right] \cdot\vec{x} \\ T_2(\vec{x}) & = \left[ {\begin{array}{rr} \frac{1}{2} & -\frac{1}{2} \\ \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2} \\ \end{array} } \right] \cdot\vec{x}- \left[ {\begin{array}{rr} \frac{1}{2} \\ \frac{1}{2} \\ \end{array} } \right] \end{array} \]

We can easily expand these transforms into C code with maxima:

A : matrix([.5,  .5], [-.5, .5]);
B : matrix([.5, -.5], [ .5, .5]);
C : matrix([-.5], [-.5]);
X : matrix([x], [y]);
display2d:false;
A.X;
    matrix([0.5*y+0.5*x],[0.5*y-0.5*x])
B.X+C;
    matrix([(-0.5*y)+0.5*x-0.5],[0.5*y+0.5*x-0.5])

Definition in file LevyCurve.cpp.