Seeking GIS that can calculate fractal dimensions?

Question

As ‘Fractals are Everywhere’ in geo-ref data, which GIS other than ArcGIS can calculate fractal dimensions?

Answer 1

QGIS could too via a plugin it seems :

• Minkowski fractal dimension calculation for vector layer features

SAGA GIS seems a good candidate : Library Fractals

- Bifurcation
- Fractal Dimension of Grid Surface
- Gaussian Landscapes
- Mandelbrot Set (interactive)
- Newton-Raphson (interactive)
- Pythagoras' Tree

As @mkennedy mentions there's GRASS too :

• r.surf.fractal - Creates a fractal surface of a given fractal dimension.

I know you exclude Arcgis, but just for generic info, it seems it has some add-on tools that could help :

• Hawth tools / Line metric tool : allows the user to calculate Sinuosity or Fractal Dimension