Websites related to "Visual Complex Analysis"


Table of Conformal Mappings Using Continuous Coloring
George Abdo and Paul Godfrey
Florida Institute of Technology

Includes Conformal Maps requiring Möbius and Schwartz-Christoffel Transformations.

Graphics for Complex Analysis
Douglas N. Arnold
Penn State

A nice collection of animated GIFs illustrating complex mappings. Also available in the form of controllable Java applets.

Understanding Complex Function Graphs
Tom Banchoff and Davide Cervone
Brown University and The Geometry Center

This is a paper published in the Communications in Visual Mathematics. It makes imaginative use of MPEG movies as an aid to visualizing complex graphs in four dimensions.

Complex Function Grapher
Andrew Bennett
Kansas State University, Manhattan

This mathlet graphs the modular surface of a complex function and adds color to represent the argument.

Complex Function Visualization
Frank Farris
Santa Clara University

Examples of Prof. Farris's mathematically illuminating approach to visualizing complex mappings by means of colour.

Resources for the Teaching of Complex Variables
Paul Fishback
Grand Valley State University

Several examples of Prof. Fishback's FZW files, for use with F(z) for Windows [see below], together with documentation in the form of MS Word files. This site also includes a list of recommended readings related to the application of technology to the visualization of complex analysis.

Julia and Mandelbrot Set Explorer
David E. Joyce
Clark University

The name says it all.

f(z) - The Complex Variables Program
Lascaux Graphics

An excellent commercial Windows package for visualizing complex mappings. There is also a free, downloadable demo version.

Visualizing complex analytic functions using domain coloring
Hans Lundmark
Linköping University, Sweden

Very beautiful examples (inspired by Prof. Farris's above) of visualizing complex mappings by means of colour.

Java Complex Function Viewer
Keith Orpen and Djun M. Kim
University of British Columbia

Interactively allows you to view the effect of the exponential and sine functions on a small grid of squares.

Newton's method, Julia and Mandelbrot sets, and complex coloring
Martin Pergler

Some applications of domain coloring to iterated functions.

Visualization and Graphical Interpretation
Prof. Aguinaldo Robinson de Souza
Chemistry Department, São Paulo State University, Brazil

This Brazilian site is mainly in Portuguese, but with parts translated into English. It contains a variety of resources related to the visualization of complex functions: written explanations, images, videos, and software.

"BOMBELLI"
A Java viewer for arbitrary, user-specified complex functions

Prof. Sérgio Santa Cruz and Paulo Soares Fonseca
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

An excellent, free, user-friendly viewer for arbitrary functions. Highly recommended!


If you know of other interesting sites, please tell me about them by sending e-mail to needham@usfca.edu. Thanks!
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