Bilinear fractal interpolation and box dimension (Q2256627)

The authors consider certain iterated function systems (bilinear fractal interpolants) connected with interpolation of continuous functions. They are the fixed points of appropriate Read-Bajraktarevic operators, see \textit{P. R. Massopust} [Fractal functions, fractal surfaces, and wavelets. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, Inc. (1994; Zbl 0817.28004)]. The authors prove that the graphs of the bilinear fractal interpolants are attractors of contraction with respect to corresponding metrics bilinear IFS, and present an explicit formula for the box-counting dimension of the graph of a bilinear fractal interpolant in the case of equally spaced data points.