Hutchinson metric

A Julia set, a fractal related to the Mandelbrot set
A fractal that models the surface of a mountain (animation)

In mathematics, the Hutchinson metric otherwise known as Kantorovich metric is a function which measures "the discrepancy between two images for use in fractal image processing" and "can also be applied to describe the similarity between DNA sequences expressed as real or complex genomic signals".[1][2]

  1. ^ Drakopoulos, V.; Nikolaou, N. P. (December 2004). "Efficient computation of the Hutchinson metric between digitized images". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 13 (12): 1581–1588. doi:10.1109/tip.2004.837550. PMID 15575153.
  2. ^ Hutchinson Metric in Fractal DNA Analysis -- a Neural Network Approach Archived August 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine