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Accuracy of the box-counting algorithm for noisy fractals

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  • A. Z. Górski

    (H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, Kraków, 31-342, Poland)

  • M. Stróż

    (AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland)

  • P. Oświȩcimka

    (H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, Kraków, 31-342, Poland)

  • J. Skrzat

    (Department of Anatomy, Collegium Medicum, Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Abstract

The box-counting (BC) algorithm is applied to calculate fractal dimensions of four fractal sets. The sets are contaminated with an additive noise with amplitude γ=10−5−10−1. The accuracy of calculated numerical values of the fractal dimensions is analyzed as a function of γ for different sizes of the data sample. In particular, it has been found that even in case of pure fractals (γ=0) as well as for tiny noise (γ≈10−5) one has considerable error for the calculated exponents of order 0.01. For larger noise the error is growing up to 0.1 and more, with natural saturation limited by the embedding dimension. This prohibits the power-like scaling of the error. Moreover, the noise effect cannot be cured by taking larger data samples.

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  • A. Z. Górski & M. Stróż & P. Oświȩcimka & J. Skrzat, 2016. "Accuracy of the box-counting algorithm for noisy fractals," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 27(10), pages 1-11, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:27:y:2016:i:10:n:s0129183116501126
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183116501126
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