History
IFS were conceived in their present form by John E. Hutchinson in 1981 and popularized by Michael Barnsley's book Fractals Everywhere.
"IFSs provide models for certain plants, leaves, and ferns, by virtue of the self-similarity which often occurs in branching structures in nature."--Michael Barnsley et al.
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