You’ve got to be sharp to win this one!
It’s a fresh new year. Who knows what could happen? Although based on previous year’s results, almost half of the exhibition has already been chosen and reserved for the judges, there’s still a good chunk of space reserved exclusively for the contest winners. So …
Yes. Apparently all the diseases and infirmities that I’ve been complaining about in the Fractal Art world are widespread and commonplace — in the mainstream. The Fractalbook people that I said were obscuring the really serious Fractal Art “nucleus” like a cloud of mosquitoes are actually what most of the real world is …
Blue Buffalo (2001)
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority, then privileges, and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies in the third.–Vicomte De Chateaubriand
It will surprise none of Orbit Trap’s readers to learn we have had no reply to our inquiries about how …
Fyre embedded parameter file
Lately I’ve begun to seriously question whether using the term, “abstract” to describe any piece of artwork can be realistically used. I think the term abstract is itself an abstraction and is hopelessly inseparable from the world of realistic forms and imagery.
I think abstract is another way of depicting reality, that …
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Most have never looked beneath the surface of a wall, or even considered doing such a thing.
A wall is not seen as an object of substance, and therefore not thought of as having depth, or in this case — inner workings.
What walls do, cannot be explained merely on the basis of …
Sterli18.loo
Just like fractals, there is a special allure to the stories of The Arabian Nights.
And also like fractals, I think that special quality that makes them attractive comes from their unique origin: fractals springing from a strange new area of mathematics; and The Arabian Nights, from the Middle East.
I’m not even a student of literature, …
April 10, 2008
Avalanche Publishing, Inc.P.O. Box 55Delafield , WI 53018
Attention: Publishing Team for the Fractal Universe Calendar
Dear Publishing Team:
I am writing you out of concern for the protocols used to solicit materials for your annual Fractal Universe Calendar.
I co-edit Orbit Trap, a blog devoted to fractals and fractal art. …
The Ecstasy of St Clickism
It’s not exactly a single photoshop filter, “bernini.8bf”, but rather a syndrome of filters (to use a pathological expression).
The sierpinski effect from multicrystal.8bf (Ilyich the Toad) produces the sharp, stone-like appearance that extractor1.8bf expands upon so well. But it’s the simple mirror,mirror filter that takes it to a whole new …
Hyperbolic coral forms by Christine Werthiem and Margaret Wertheim. Photo by Alyssa Gorelick.
From the “Goings on about Town” section of The New Yorker, 4-7-08:
Crocheting the Coral Reef: The Institute for Figuring, a Los Angeles based organization dedicated to bringing fractals, hyperbolic space and other high-flying mathematical and scientific concepts down to earth, …
I remember the great arrival of the prose poem. I was taking a poetry “workshop” and there, suddenly, on a page in the poetry anthology was a clump of text without any explanation. This fragment of text, which was actually shorter than the poem on the facing page, had a title at the …
All text taken from The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe, more or less…
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