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halleyDetailTwoPointNine… by Dan Wills, 2008-Click for larger view- Like a needle in a haystack, or a glowing needle in a fractal formula, is the rumor of a continent over the horizon or the possibility of…

lesson_2_atmosphere_isolation_for_janet Click to Enlarge I found this in the Student Galleries section of the Visual Arts Academy.  There’s no name or date but it’s filed in the Ultra Fractal Artistry section of the gallery, a…

Whether you’re a fractal artist or simply just a fan of fractal art, you’re bound to eventually notice similarities in style and develop preferences for this kind of art or that kind of art. Fractal…

How is the judging actually done? I’ve always assumed that in order to give every submission an equal chance of winning, the judges independently viewed the submissions and then chose the ones that they thought…

Several questions Is the entire digital art medium just too new and different for the art gallery world? Has the art world, that great destroyer of cultural norms and traditions, found a free-flowing, anarchic, internet-based…

One of these is from the Museum of Bad Art It occurred to me while browsing some of the greatest art of the 20th century to ask this question: Why don’t we see more art…

Could this work be described as …Fractal?Admiral Otto Von Howitzerhead by Kris Kuksi 2009 Samuel Monnier, writing at Algorithmic Worlds, his new website – gallery – and blog, said some very interesting things about the…

Editor’s Note:  This is a guest posting by Rich Jarzombek.I’m always fascinated by what I call “The Infinite Powers” of fractals. Most fractalists know that the fractal computational process is iterative and therefore could go…

Even my own homemade recipes leave me with an unsettled stomach.  I used to get a thrill out of making some colorful lollipop of an image, but that stuff is for kids.  If you still…

What? You didn’t know even know there was a Phase One? Well, let me begin there, then. At the dawn of fractal art.Phase One, the first stage of fractal art, has been oriented around software.…

Sure you do. But, the kind of professional help I’m talking about is online software courses. I know that sounds like a common subject line for spam, but this is the real thing and it…

I view Garth Thornton’s recent resignation as a judge in the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2009 as a cause for celebration and renewed hope in one’s fellow man.  I know that may sound rather…

The rules page on the official website for the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2009 was changed overnight.  The list of the Selection Panel Members (judges) has been abbreviated and now no longer includes the…

While it may not be official yet, a  response by Garth Thornton to a thread at Fractalforums.com early today gives a fairly clear impression that he intends to step down from his new judging role…

It’s been more than three years now since the original Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest made it’s debut.  For those of you who haven’t been following these things, we’ve criticized the Contest over a number…

It’s the job of the Coroner’s office to make an official pronouncement of death I’m filling in at the Coroner’s office while he’s away on vacation.  That is, the Internet Coroner’s office.  That’s where the…

Cool fractals made chillingly easy (Parameter file: “fract0.xpf“)Xaos Website So simple What’s new in 3.5? Glad you asked. XaoS 3.5 has been released for download. This version contains a new Portuguese translation, several bug fixes,…

Editor’s note:(Rich Jarzombek’s unique fractal artwork was originally reviewed on Orbit Trap back on April 28th as the posting, Realistic Fractals by Rich Jarzombek. Just recently, Rich sent me a more detailed explanation of the…

Over the years, while browsing online galleries, I have from time to time experienced something that I have casually labeled Thumbnailitis.  It’s a condition that occurs when you see what you think is a very…

…the image that was chosen for the cover of Avalanche Publishing’s 2009 Fractal Universe Calendar can also become the cover image of the May 2009 Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy? May 2009 Cover of the…

“You’ll only find dirt, digging where other’s have dug”–Long John Silver, Treasure Island Pebbles by Jonathan Hunt, 2008. Made entirely in POV-Ray There is a definite use and function for digital photorealism, but it is…

“I love the smell of blog posts in the morning” It’s been almost three years since Orbit Trap appeared in August of 2006. Initially, I had expected it to have an enormous influence on fractal…

A Typical Fractal GalleryDigital art is not displayed or presented in the way in which paintings or photographs are. One doesn’t exhibit digital art, one broadcasts it. The digital medium is so different from the…

Senorita’s New Attire by Rich Jarzombek.  Click for larger image. The general field of Fractal Art abounds in pictures that may be largely described as beautiful random designs or geometric shapes. It is rare to…

Pantheon Good software makes images that are too slick.  It’s hard to get good software to make smudgy, jagged, off-color stuff.  Purebred imagery is predictable.  Artists often make junk and crazy mistakes but it’s a…

Consider this: And about these continuous and pointless attacks against Ultra Fractal, maybe you should just start displaying some fractal images that obviously cannot be realized in Ultra Fractal. I haven’t seen any on your…

What?  By who? Why I call myself O. Most people think of Chaos as the opposite of Order, but actually Order is merely Chaos constrained. In this respect, Order and Chaos form a continuum that…

Fractal Guernica, by Pablo Picasso II(guernica03.loo) In the same category as room-temperature fusion, perpetual motion and the age-old alchemical quest to turn lead into gold, is added yet another bold and fearful challenge: to make…

Terry, much of your discussion revolves around the notion and concept of a fractal art community.  I need to address this first because I believe that will clarify this discussion immensely because this community thing…

Under Red Sea, by maruscyaI think working with fractals is very much like the art of nature photography.  Nature photography tends to be descriptive, showing what things look like and focusing primarily on the form,…

The Mona Lisa is famous for her “mysterious smile”; but is that enough to make it a great work of art?Isn’t it just old-fashioned eye candy and in fact (I deal in facts), not much…

Hey, look at me! I’ve got texture! Terry, Whoa.  That Algorithmic Worlds thing of Sam’s is just the sort of thing I was talking about.  If it wasn’t for guys like Sam I’d say Ultra…

Climb the mountain, explore the caves, or check out the little islands off shore… Just load the parameter file (shellcity02.loo) into Sterling2 and this whole little world is yours. Fractals are a unique form of…

Made in Sterling2(parameter file: shell01.loo ) That great fractal classic by Stephen Ferguson, Sterlingware, has been been reconfigured by Tad Boniecki (aka Soler7) with 50 new formulas and released for download as Sterling2.  And it’s…

I’m not making this up.  I went surfing about to see what I could find in the fractal world and lo and behold at Flickr, a couple of pages into a search on the term…

Fractal Tiger by Richard Diggle (ricdiggle)Yes, it’s finally come to this.  Apophysis, and all flame fractals have been replaced by a single Photoshop filter. Of course this new photoshop filter, Fractalius, by Redfield Plugins undoubtedly…