IFSGen4LaTeX: Interactive Graphical User Interface for Generation and Visualization of Iterated Function Systems in LaTeX

摘要

This paper presents a new interactive, user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for generation and visualization of IFS. The program, called IFSGen4LaTeX, is particularly designed for proper LaTeX editing in a WYSIWYG mode. During a working session, IFS are created interactively from scratch and visualized by using the IFSGen4LaTeX GUI; simultaneously, its engine generates source code that, once inserted in LaTeX and compiled, displays the same fractal images in LaTeX. This process leads to substantial savings in CPU time and memory storage, since the resulting source code is astonishingly small, but still of excellent visual quality because the number of iterations is decided by the user.