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The advent of high resolution imaging has made data on surface shape widespread. Methods for the analysis of shape based on landmarks are well established but high resolution data require a functional approach. The starting point is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Stanislav Katina , Liberty Vittert , Adrian W. Bowman

The local structure of a fractal set is described by its dimension $D$, which is the exponent of a power-law relating the mass ${\cal N}$ in a ball to its radius $\epsilon$: ${\cal N}\sim \epsilon^D$. It is desirable to characterise the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Wilkinson , John Grant

The purpose of the present paper is to present the main applications of a new method for the determination of the fractal structure of plane curves. It is focused on the inverse problem, that is, given a curve in the plane, find its fractal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-01 Luiz Bevilacqua , Marcelo M. Barros , Felipe C. V. Venturelli

Urban-induced microclimate variations, such as urban heat islands and air pollution, scale with city size, producing distinctive relations between average climate variables and city-scale quantities (e.g., total population). However, these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-20 Marc Duran-Sala , Martin Hendrick , Gabriele Manoli

We describe new families of random fractals, referred to as "V-variable", which are intermediate between the notions of deterministic and of standard random fractals. The parameter V describes the degree of "variability" : at each…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Barnsley , John E. Hutchinson , Örjan Stenflo

There is strong expectation that cities, across time, culture and level of development, share much in common in terms of their form and function. Recently, attempts to formalize mathematically these expectations have led to the hypothesis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-28 Luis M. A. Bettencourt , Jose Lobo , Hyejin Youn

The multi-scale expansions and contractions of the Earth's magnetosphere explain fundamental issues of magnetic storm-substorm relationship. This magnetospheric behavior is in agreement with a model of 3D-spirally-faster-inward-oscillating…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene Savov

A fractal approach to numerical analysis of electromagnetic space-time crystals, created by three standing plane harmonic waves with mutually orthogonal phase planes and the same frequency, is presented. Finite models of electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 G. N. Borzdov

We investigate the evolution of matter density perturbations within a fractional cosmological framework inspired by fractal space-time constructions in field theory, where a deformation of the integration measure induces non-locality and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 S. M. M. Rasouli

Following \cite{Visintin}, we exploit the fractional perimeter of a set to give a definition of fractal dimension for its measure theoretic boundary. We calculate the fractal dimension of sets which can be defined in a recursive way and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Luca Lombardini

We introduce fractal liquids by generalizing classical liquids of integer dimensions $d = 1, 2, 3$ to a fractal dimension $d_f$. The particles composing the liquid are fractal objects and their configuration space is also fractal, with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-31 Marco Heinen , Simon K. Schnyder , John F. Brady , Hartmut Löwen

We show that when the standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (such as the box counting) are applied on uniformly random structures, apparent fractal behavior is observed in a range between physically…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 D. A. Lidar , O. Malcai , O. Biham , D. Avnir

Experiments on fracture surface morphologies offer increasing amounts of data that can be analyzed using methods of statistical physics. One finds scaling exponents associated with correlation and structure functions, indicating a rich…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Bouchbinder , Itamar Procaccia , Shani Sela

Modern SAT solvers have experienced a remarkable progress on solving industrial instances. Most of the techniques have been developed after an intensive experimental testing process. Recently, there have been some attempts to analyze the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 C. Ansótegui , M. L. Bonet , J. Giráldez-Cru , J. Levy

We analyze the fractal dimension of open clusters using 3D spatial data from Gaia DR3 for 93 open clusters from Pang et al. (2024) and 127 open clusters from Hunt & Reffert (2024) within 500 pc. The box-counting method is adopted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Chang Qin , Xiaoying Pang , Mario Pasquato , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Antonella Vallenari

A fractal surface is a set which is a graph of a bivariate continuous function. In the construction of fractal surfaces using IFS, vertical scaling factors in IFS are important one which characterizes a fractal feature of surfaces…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Chol-Hui Yun , Hui-Chol Choi , Hyong-Chol O

The fractal properties of models of randomly placed $n$-dimensional spheres ($n$=1,2,3) are studied using standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (the box counting and Minkowski-sausage techniques). Using…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel A. Hamburger , Ofer Biham , David Avnir

Many growth processes lead to intriguing stochastic patterns and complex fractal structures which exhibit local scale invariance properties. Such structures can often be described effectively by space-time trajectories of interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-07 Adnan Ali , Robin C. Ball , Stefan Grosskinsky , Ellak Somfai

Fractals are defined as geometric shapes that exhibit symmetry of scale. This simply implies that fractal is a shape that it would still look the same even if somebody could zoom in on one of its parts an infinite number of times. This…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Ioannis Haranas , Ioannis Gkigkitzis , Athanasios Alexiou

Estimating correspondences between deformed shape instances is a long-standing problem in computer graphics; numerous applications, from texture transfer to statistical modelling, rely on recovering an accurate correspondence map. Many…