ST Format Issue 36
While testing out a new scanner (a Brother DCP 7030) I’ve finally got around to putting up one of my old magazine articles here on bessant.com. This particular article appeared in ST Format Issue 36 back in the heady days of July 1992. It shows how to create the Feigenbaum fractal using a simple epidemiology model. The science has stood the test of time, but I had to port the GFA Basic program code to Java to get it running on today’s computers. Ironically, these articles probably reached more people than the stuff I write now – ST Format was sold in all major UK newsagents and had a monthly circulation of over 65,000! There’s plenty more articles where this came from but unless there is huge interest I won’t be putting any more here for the simple reason that scanning them is a pain!
I can remember this ST Format issue, and playing around with fractals in GFA Basic. Programming in GFA when I was young probably led to me now writing proteomics code.