Dietmar Saupe

Dietmar Saupe is a mathematician and computer scientist whose best-known work is on fractals. He studied mathematics at the universities of Stuttgart and Bremen and took his doctorate in Bremen in 1982 under Heinz-Otto Peitgen. In 2002 he became professor of computer science at the University of Konstanz.

The Bremen group around Peitgen and the physicist Peter H. Richter used computer graphics to make the behavior of complex dynamical systems visible in color. A 1983 print of Julia sets by Peitgen and Saupe was in the Exhibition of Computer Art at SIGGRAPH 1983. Saupe's sheet in the folder of Computerwoche's 1984 computer graphics competition is captioned as the work of the research group "Komplexe Dynamik," and the folder lists Peitgen among the first three prize winners. With Peitgen he edited The Science of Fractal Images (1988), and with Peitgen and Hartmut Jürgens he wrote Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science (1992).