| As recounted in the Foreword of
The Science of Fractal Images, Loren
Carpenter engineered the fractal planet sequences in Star Trek II. Extensive
fractal landscapes also were included in The Last Starfighter. |
| More recently, Ken Musgrave has used fractals and multifractals to
generate scenes for Apollo 13, Dante's Peak, and Titanic. For
example, |
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| Here is another example from the November, 2000 issue of
Scientific American. |
| "The ferocious seas engulfing actor Mark Wahlberg in
The Perfect Storm were
simulated by Industrial Light & Magic using computational fluid dynamics for waves and
turbulence; rule-based particle dynamics for ripples, foam and spray; and fractal-based
shaders that add surface textures and even scatter light inside water drops." |
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| In addition, fractals and chaos have been a subject in film and television. For
example, in an episode of Murphy Brown, Buck Henry played the inventor of
fractal geometry, and gave some accurate technical descriptions. The Mandelbrot
set appeared in an episode of the X-Files. The
sensitivity of initial conditions
of chaos is wonderfully represented by the
"Time and Punishment" episode of The Simpsons, demonstrated by Jeff Goldblum
rolling drops of water off Laura Dern's hand in Jurassic Park, and in
all of the film Sliding Doors. |