[en] The use of fractal techniques to quantify the texture of irregular distributions of points, such as occur in rapidity histograms is reviewed. Even when scaling (simple or multiple) does not occur, it is possible to formulate the correlation and moment analysis for various resolutions in a form that is useful. For example, the bin averaged factorial moment approach is close to the recently introduced strip moments. The latter are almost the same as the correlation dimensions commonly used in nonlinear dynamics. The strip moments have the advantage of removing fluctuations for high resolution due to the arbitrary placement of bin walls, particularly for spike events and high-order moments. (author) 16 refs.; 3 figs