Fractal Lines w/ Visio?

[artbraune]

Anyone tried creating fractal lines in Visio? Looking for an easy way to create fractal lines as if they were made from the Line Tool, the Arc Tool, or the Freeform Tool.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Art

[Visio Guy]

What kind of fractals are you looking for? Seems like you'd need at least a smidgen of code, no?

[wapperdude]

There are a great variety of fractal lines, any in particular?  

Some strike me as being quite difficult -- decaying widths and with gradient fill /transparency along the length of the line.  Others might be do-able, these are more constant width, with gradient/transparency across the width.  These might be done with custom line patterns.  Visio Guy had a good reference for this:  http://www.visguy.com/2008/03/03/release-the-power-of-visio-custom-line-patterns/

Wapperdude

[Visio Guy]

I just pasted-and-massaged some C# code into a VBA project and produced these Mandelbrot drawings, but they wouldn't be much for custom patterns on the Freeform tool

By the way, this drawing ended up with 23,936 shapes, and is 2.54 MB. Just a bunch of colored dots!

Poor Visio was sure dragging near the end...

[wapperdude]

That's quite impressive, especially on such short notice!  Lot of spare time?   

[artbraune]

Chris - I am looking to draw a line and basically add randomization to it? In essence creating something that could have been made by nature without me spending a ton of time drawing it out? Make sense?

What kind of fractals are you looking for? Seems like you'd need at least a smidgen of code, no?

[Visio Guy]

Art,

Have you seen: 'Indexed' Shapes – for that Hand-drawn Look?

The shapes all have lines with randomness to make them look non-computer-ish.