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Drip Paintings and Fractal Analysis
It has been claimed [1-6] that fractal analysis can be applied to
unambiguously characterize works of art such as the drip paintings of Jackson
Pollock. This academic issue has become of more general interest following the
recent discovery of a cache of disputed Pollock paintings. We definitively
demonstrate here, by analyzing paintings by Pollock and others, that fractal
criteria provide no information about artistic authenticity. This work has also
led to two new results in fractal analysis of more general scientific
significance. First, the composite of two fractals is not generally scale
invariant and exhibits complex multifractal scaling in the small distance
asymptotic limit. Second the statistics of box-counting and related staircases
provide a new way to characterize geometry and distinguish fractals from
Euclidean objects
Multi-fractal analysis of weighted networks
In many real complex networks, the fractal and self-similarity properties
have been found. The fractal dimension is a useful method to describe fractal
property of complex networks. Fractal analysis is inadequate if only taking one
fractal dimension to study complex networks. In this case, multifractal
analysis of complex networks are concerned. However, multifractal dimension of
weighted networks are less involved. In this paper, multifractal dimension of
weighted networks is proposed based on box-covering algorithm for fractal
dimension of weighted networks (BCANw). The proposed method is applied to
calculate the fractal dimensions of some real networks. Our numerical results
indicate that the proposed method is efficient for analysis fractal property of
weighted networks
Comment on "Drip Paintings and Fractal Analysis", arXiv:0710.4917v2, by K. Jones-Smith, H. Mathur and L.M. Krauss
In a recent manuscript (arXiv:0710.4917v2), Jones-Smith et al. attempt to use
the well-established box-counting technique for fractal analysis to
"demonstrate conclusively that fractal criteria are not useful for
authentication". Here, in response to what we view to be an extremely
simplistic misrepresentation of our earlier work by Jones-Smith et al., we
reiterate our position regarding the potential of fractal analysis for artwork
authentication. We also point out some of the flaws in the analysis presented
in by Jones-Smith et al.Comment: Comment on arXiv:0710.4917v2 [cond-mat.stat-mech
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