Now, we all know that it’s our DNA that controls our physical characteristics. DNA contains the information which determines how we develop from fertilized egg to adult. DNA, in turn, is literally coded instructions similar to binary computer code.
DNA is encoded using sequences of four different amino acids grouped into pairs. The arrangement of those …
I don’t like slick computer art but I like Daniel Eaton’s Incendia gallery. The more polished and “professional” computer art gets the more it reminds me of advertising and other kinds of soulless, slithering graphical lifeforms. But Daniel Eaton (aka “Apophysitis”) has somehow managed to construct creative and appealing imagery with a program …
Allow me to play Film Class Professor. Before we dim the lights and roll the film I will give a short lecture which hopefully will enlighten our understanding of these short animations posted below, or, at the very least, become the price of admission you will pay to sit in a comfortable seat and watch …
A few years back I was excited about the possibilities of fractal animation. Fractal animation, as I saw it, would be literally living and moving fractals. Fractal artists were about to become fractal film makers and the art form would take on a whole new dimension. And after seeing a couple of very exciting algorithmic …
The well-known fractal artist Janet Parke recently stopped teaching her highly popular Ultra Fractal courses at the online Visual Arts Academy. But just this week she has released them in downloadable ebook form for self-study. You can read all about them here on her website. The ebooks contain the text of the courses and are …
Here at Orbit Trap we’ve been accused by some of being too “preachy”. Maybe it’s true. Consider this: A recent reader and veteran fractal artist, Marcos Napier, has credited Orbit Trap with helping him to usher in “A New Era” for his fractal artwork and his website, Fractalland.com.
Somehow inspired by things like what has been …
I was reading a very erudite New York City art blog a few months ago. One of its postings came up in the results of a Google search I made. As is often the case with websites like this, after reading the initial posting that my Google search had brought me to …
Good evening, and welcome to This Week In Opera. Tonight’s special offering comes from the world of fractal art, an email list for the fractal program, Ultra Fractal. What makes this opera so avante garde is that the performers believe they are actually participating in a online discussion, while only the audience knows they are …
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue…”
–Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
What could be more intelligent and etherial than a clever java applet like this one made by Jerry Huxtable. It’s creative and I don’t …
I think the recent image by Guido Cavalcante, made in Ultra Fractal and used in a posting to illustrate the oceanic garbage dump phenomenon, is a good example of the contrast between art and craft, two concepts which I discussed in a recent post. In a nutshell, I defined art as expressive imagery and craft …
Wait! It’s not me. And it’s got nothing to do with Orbit Trap this time either.
Curious who could be having seconds thoughts about the glorious Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2009 besides Orbit Trap? Well, it’s none other than Mr. Velocipede!
Here’s what she says:
I’ve finally had a chance to take a better look at the …
I got a couple of comments to my previous post, Art, Craft and Fractals, which raised an issue which I think needs to be clarified. The term, Craft, is used in many ways and most of them are probably derogatory in the context of art. But it’s not my intention to bad-mouth craft, only to …
