Year: 2008
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Secret, Invisible and Ever-Unknown
Photographed by Sterlingware, the Hubble Telescope of Fractals (Sterli12.loo) Technorati Tags: fractal art, great fractal art, really really good fractal art, the best fractal art, the apex of fractal art, greatest fractal art ever, bow…
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The Bird That Gave Birth to the Moon
Click for Sterlingware Parameter File There is a new legend that tells how a bird gave birth to the moon. For thousands of years the bird had laid eggs and all of them had been…
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Temple of Saturn
Brought to you by the proud sponsors of the 2012 Olympic Clickism Team! [Your Company’s Name Here] I’m trying to get Clickism recognized as an official Olympic sport. Of course, if that happens I probably…
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Troll Prima Donna
Troll Prima Donna (2000) Another paradigm shift: trolls are hecklers. They aren’t satisfied with the nearly infinite opportunities on the Internet to build their own spaces and places and express their views. They’d rather steal…
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Whistleblower
Another paradigm shift: This blog, Orbit Trap, is a whistleblower. I think that’s why there’s been such hostility to it and such little open support. That’s always the way it is with the unpopular role…
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Fractalbook
Hi, my name’s Suzyfrak745632 My latest paradigm shift: The online fractal “art” world is primarily a social network where one’s “art” is used to gain admission to, and build a network of friends. My impression…
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Us and Them
Aigaios (2008) All I want is some good Clean Fun All I want is some Good Clean Fun–Descendents, “GCF” It’s not torture when we do it… —Bark of the Moonbat (and countless others) When so…
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The Algorithmic Circus
TieraZon, uscomic.8bf, XnView text – all three-rings Technorati Tags: fractal art digital art tierazon algorithmic art circus balloons popcorn candy floss…
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I’ve got a new filter!
From Terry Gibbons’ The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art I don’t know exactly how it works, but where there’s math… there’s fractals! Sure, the math folks will argue with me, but like all…
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Ashes to Ashes, Pulp to Pulp
From Frank Wu’s collection of Frank R. Paul’s Golden Age Sci-Fi Pulp Covers “The sages of Calisto were super-intelligent and had become so far advanced in the Sciences that there was nothing more for them…
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"The Best Fractal Art Ever Created"
Well, it’s an exciting neck and neck (sea)horse race over at the idreamincolor forum where the locals are busy buzzing and definitively storming the hive while answering this honey-dripping question: What Is the Best Fractal…
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Painting With Power!
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” -Marc Chagall.8bf “One small step for a fractal artist; one giant leap for Fractal Art” -Neil Armstrong.8bf “The aim of photoshop filters is to represent not the outward appearance of…
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Art Without an Audience
Fyre 1.0.1 embedded parameter file When Orbit Trap was started, back in August of 2006, it had always been foremost in my mind that it would be a positive contribution to the fractal art world.…
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Leave a Light On
Leave a Light On (2008) Reader Toby, in our comments section, has finally taken up the challenge to address some of the points Orbit Trap has raised about the two major fractal competitions. He also…
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Read-only Moon
Technorati Tags: digital art terraform read-only moon space exploration space cadet space in my head
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Looking for Arrowheads
Made with Fyre 1.0.1. Embedded parameter file. Click, click, click, done. I read onceabout kids who would go lookingfor arrowheads I was a kidso I went looking for arrowheadsalso The arrowheadsare in the groundor just…
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Odds and Ends
Ah, back to blogging after some wandering in RL wilderness. The holidays nearly did me in. Although anti-depressants are currently weathering a storm of debunkers, their alleged restorative process might be an appropriate metaphor. Getting…
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Beware of the Anti-Fractal
I know this will probably crack some folks up at first, but bear with me as I tell you about something that came to mind just recently while browsing the big page of “winners” at…
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Words in the Ice
Algorithmic Art (art made by machines) is a lot like digital frost. I think almost every photography book has a picture of frost on a window pane. Frost is a mechanical process and is quite…
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Journey to Mercury
In the spirit of Sindbad, I went on a voyage and just recently, returned. It was a digital voyage. Not really a voyage I guess, but I left where I was and out of curiosity…
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Planes, Birds and Fish
Back in the early 90’s, I went through a 3 year phase when I wanted to become an airplane pilot. In addition to taking flight training in Ontario, Canada (where I live) I also “studied”…