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 …
Lightning Fields 128 by Hiroshi Sugimoto
I learned to capture the lightning shock…
–Roger McGuinn, “Lover of the Bayou”
The fractal properties of lightning have long been evident in dramatic photographs of self-similar jagged bolts caught in a split-second of illumination. But few have pursued lightning so deeply “to its hiding place,” as Victor Frankenstein once put it, …
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 …
[Photograph seen on Manshion.]
Here are some selected shorts. Apparently, I have no grand vision to impart to start the New Year.
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Orbit Trap has published several recent posts exploring the nature of fractal art, and Tim explicated an image by Guido Cavalcante and analyzed its artistic expression. In response, several commenters wondered why we haven’t …
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 …
A framed print of To the Joust. My cat studies its intricacies for hours.
I’d like to talk about my experience with making prints. Let me begin by making clear that I’m not claiming to be any kind of expert in this area. There are plenty of professionals who know more about the ins and outs …
“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 …
