Modeling fractal patterns with Genetic Algorithm solutions to a variant of the inverse problem for Iterated Function Systems (IFS)

We investigate the use of Iterated Function Systems (IFS) for modeling 2 dimensional fractal structures by seeking solutions to a variant of the Inverse IFS Problem: Given a fractal pattern we are looking for parameters in 24 dimensions for a small set of contractive affine maps and their associated probabilities which constitute the IFS. Upon iteration the IFS solution produces an attractor with the characteristics which describe the image under consideration.