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Credlts for Figures and Color Plates Much has changed in the world of fractals, computer graphics and modem mathematics since the first edition of Fractals Everywhere appeared. The company Iterated Systems, Inc., founded by Michael Barnsley and Alan Sloan, is now competing in the image compression field with both hardware and software products that use fractal geometry to compress images. Indeed, there is now a plethora of texts on subjects like fractals and chaos, and these terms are rapidly becoming "household words.