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FUNCTIONAL PEARL Composing fractals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2004

MARK P. JONES
MARK P. JONES
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA (email: [email protected])
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This paper describes a simple but flexible family of Haskell programs for drawing pictures of fractals such as Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Its main goal is to showcase the elegance of a compositional approach to program construction, and the benefits of a clean separation between different aspects of program behavior. Aimed at readers with relatively little experience of functional programming, the paper can be used as a tutorial on functional programming, as an overview of the Mandelbrot set, or as a motivating example for studies in computability.

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Functional pearls
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 14 , Issue 6 , November 2004 , pp. 715 - 725
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press
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