I used to go hunting for exciting new images. Now I’m content if I can just find something that looks different. I don’t care if it’s great or not.
The Golden Age of Heroes is OverGuido Cavalcante summed it up quite well two years ago while writing on a related topic, that being the …
A Goblet Emptied by clifftoppler
As I predicted, the boundaries of what is and what is not fractal art would have to be reshuffled once the Fractalbookers shelled out for Ultra Fractal 5.
I said UF5 could be downgraded to a Photoshop plug-in, and here we see the proof. A digital reproduction of a detail …
Sterli30.loo
I made this image in Sterlingware with only a slight hue shift in XnView, my trusty side-kick. Although Sterlingware is now over 10 years old, which is pretty old by software standards, and lacks many of the new features that extend the rendering powers of fractal programs (i.e. user formulas and other junk) I …
Get back in your seats! First I have to show the Image of the Week:
Wood Fractal by Skepsis, 2006
Flickr comments are a whole new genre of writing — and state of mind too!
I found this thought provoking. Obviously, you can see this is a photograph of a piece of a sawn tree trunk.
If …
[Photograph seen on Memory and Desire.]
The “jury” is still out as to whether the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest will be held again this year, so we don’t yet know whether its judges will once more give themselves a free backstage pass to hang their own art next to the “winning entries” …
Alright. Sure. The swastika is an ancient symbol found in a number of cultural contexts and therefore has more than one meaning and significance. It also, I suppose, could be described as a simple geometric shape…
But really, couldn’t they have come up with a better name? Did they have to use …
Evolving by Maria K. Lemming
Lines. Motion. Color. Perspective. Whimsey. Wonderful.
X09202 by Joseph Presley
Whose woods these are? Don’t ask!
Undone by Joel Faber
Let’s see my brother top this.
Calla Lily by Susan Gardner
I know what Freud would say.
Dead Wood by Michael Faber
Let’s see my brother top …
I think the developers of Ultra Fractal 5 have fallen into the trap that has plagued fractal programs from the earliest days: overly complicated, user-dependent configuration.
I have always gotten the feeling, the several times I’ve tried out Ultra Fractal, that it was designed for people who weren’t like me. With Ultra Fractal 5 this …
I thought I’d try writing a post, in a straight-forward and non-sarcastic manner, that tries to clarify my concerns about Ultra Fractal 5. Here goes.
I believe UF5 has brought fractal art to a critical crossroads. UF5 will almost certainly kick-start a paradigm shift as to how fractal art is seen and will raise serious …
Emergence by Mark Townsend 2006
While writing a recent posting, I was Googling to find Mark Townsend’s orbit trap works done using the image importer, Sprite, and I surfed head first into a coral reef of Neo-Pollockian Artworks at his gallery site, Fractal Dimentia. Like Odysseus from the old Greek stories, lost again on his …
I’ve had a little more time now to reflect on the implications of the digital image import features added to Ultra “Fractal” 5, so I hope I can clarify some of my initial observations. I’d also like to address some of the points made in the comments about my previous post on UF5.
When the image …
