Terry, much of your discussion revolves around the notion and concept of a fractal art community. I need to address this first because I believe that will clarify this discussion immensely because this community thing complicates everything else.There is no fractal art community.There is no fractal art community; not in either a formal or practical …
I and my superior aesthetics cough faintly in the face of your antiseptic algorithms.
[Photograph by theveryquietroom]
Tim,
Maybe you’re right. It’s all about the math. Our art form traditionally privileges the scientific mind of the programmer and needs only dribbled gifts from mathematicians to move forward with formulaic self-expression. Any art that results is …
Under Red Sea, by maruscyaI think working with fractals is very much like the art of nature photography. Nature photography tends to be descriptive, showing what things look like and focusing primarily on the form, color and interesting situations that one finds in the natural world. Sometimes you see a really startling photo that expresses …
The Mona Lisa is famous for her “mysterious smile”; but is that enough to make it a great work of art?Isn’t it just old-fashioned eye candy and in fact (I deal in facts), not much different than the portraits produced by the famous photographer, Yousuf Karsh – and perhaps not even as good as that?I …
If someone was to print out my images and see something more, or less, than is visible on the computer screen, I’d say stop looking at prints and stick to what you see on your monitor — that’s the real thing. Whatever extra shows up in a print is just artifacts, by-products — as …
Hey, look at me! I’ve got texture!Terry,
Whoa. That Algorithmic Worlds thing of Sam’s is just the sort of thing I was talking about. If it wasn’t for guys like Sam I’d say Ultra Fractal was the biggest software rip-off of all time.As for texture; Even Mondrian’s plain colored squares with black outlines have it. …
No art, Sherlock…
Tim,
I really enjoyed your last post. I, too, have been thinking about the desire some fractal artists have to reveal more of their images in ever expansive detail. The methods fractal artists use for doing so seem to vary. Some prefer to draw the viewer into the act of making the …
Climb the mountain, explore the caves, or check out the little islands off shore… Just load the parameter file (shellcity02.loo) into Sterling2 and this whole little world is yours.Fractals are a unique form of artistic imagery. They are more like sculptures and dioramas than the flat, static paintings they are often presented as because they …
Made in Sterling2(parameter file: shell01.loo )That great fractal classic by Stephen Ferguson, Sterlingware, has been been reconfigured by Tad Boniecki (aka Soler7) with 50 new formulas and released for download as Sterling2. And it’s totally free too.Now many of you will know me as a sort of Sterlingware sage; the renowned author of Tim’s Sterlingware …
Snake Tree by Jim MuthFractal of the Day: 4-12-97
I’ll try to post a different image every day, until I make my point that complicated formulas are not necessary for new and unusual fractals.
It appears that Jim Muth has yet to make his point, although, come April, he will have been posting his fractals …
