Group Members

The Waterloo Fractal Coding and Analysis Group (which originated from the "Waterloo Fractal Compression Project" that used to be located at this website) is comprised of five researchers who have been interested in various aspects of fractal analysis including: iterated function systems, fractal image coding, generalized fractal transforms and the inverse problem of approximation using fixed points of contraction mappings. The "fractalators" of this group are

• E.R. Vrscay
  Department of Applied Mathematics
  University of Waterloo
  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

• F. Mendivil
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  Acadia University
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B0P 1X0

• H. Kunze
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  University of Guelph
  Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

• D. La Torre
  Department of Economics, Business and Statistics
  University of Milan
  Milan, Italy

• S.K. Alexander
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Houston
  Houston, Texas, USA

• In memoriam:
  Bruno Forte
  Department of Applied Mathematics
  University of Waterloo (to 1993)
  Facolta di Scienze MM. FF. e NN. a Ca Vignal
  Universita Degli Studi di Verona Strada Le Grazie
  37134 Verona, Italy (1993-2002)

The first four "fractalators" listed above are pictured below. This photo was taken during an "IFS brainstorming session" at Waterloo in 2006.

Ed Vrscay, Herb Kunze, Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, Ed Vrscay, Herb Kunze .... (Photo and graphical effects courtesy of Franklin Mendivil)