Fractalyse is a software application for the fractal analysis of 2D patterns. This version 3 of Fractalyse has been written in Java language. Fractalyse runs on any computer supporting Java Virtual Machine. It can be used to compute fractal dimension of bitmap images (raster), vector images and networks.
Fractalyse is developped by Gilles Vuidel in the frame of research activities of Pierre Frankhauser and Cécile Tannier at ThéMA laboratory (Besançon, France).
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Fractalyse is an open source software distributed under GPL licence. The application is a .jar software developed in Java language and necessitates the installation of Java 8 at least to be executed on any operating system (Linux, Mac OS or MS Windows).
Fractalyse is licenced under GPL and the source code can be downloaded from the sourcesup git repository:
git clone https://git.renater.fr/anonscm/git/fractalyse/fractalyse.git
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About the model and the results cecile.tannier@univ-fcomte.fr
About the software application and its use gilles.vuidel@univ-fcomte.fr