Monthly Archives: September 2008

Son of Klee!

20080308, by Samuel Monnier, 2008 (Click for larger image)
Why? Because of the playful abstract shapes and the rich textured and detailed surfaces that one commonly finds in the work of both these talented artists. Their mutual connection with the land of Toblerone is just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Sorry. No more Swiss jokes.
Here’s

"I Don’t Have to Show You Any Stinkin’ Software"

If you’re the fractal police, where is your software?
Aaah, leave it to the cutting edge crowd over at Keith MacKay’s idreamincolor forum to ask the big questions and come up with the big-headed answers.
Over a month ago, MacKay posited this head-scratcher:
Lately I have been wondering if we have seen everything that fractal

An Eniwetok Atoll of the Mind

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In Mandelbrot’s greatest scenes we seem to seethat stunning moment in whichmathematics becamefissionable
They pour upon the monitordice roll symphoniesparameter poweredplutonium geraniumsperfect in dirtless reality
I have seen the brightest minds of my generationmouse-click crawlingdown the spiral streets at dawnlooking for that heavenlysomething that isn’t self-similar
The spiral twists and tricksus into twisting along with itmathematicians bail out

Image Of The Week: 20080224-01

Hey, that’s the name Paul DeCelle gave to it. I kind of like the serial number, date-stamp theme. Didn’t many of the great classical composers give their works names like, “Symphony #4 in A minor”?
This recent work by Paul DeCelle (Feb. 24th, 2008, maybe?) is exceptional in many ways. First off, it’s

Guerrilla Fractals?

Bee Pole by The Jafagirls
No review this week. But will you settle for a meditation instead?
If we assume that fractal art is indeed a legitimate fine art form — and I do — then every facet of fine art must be open to fractal art. I’ve argued in a previous OT post that

Fractal Art is Worthless

Why? Because you can’t sell it!
Why not? Because Fractal Art, like all digital art, is easily reproduced, that is, displayed on a monitor or printed out — again and again!
Need some more explanation? Digital Art is really a computer file. An oil painting is really – an oil painting!
That’s not