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Surfing Squirrel by Maria K. Lemming I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part Three: I may not always know why I like a given work of art, but I can usually…
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FaeryRing by Jennifer Stewart [Click on images to view full-size.] I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part Two: I began recent entries in this series outlining with some certainty why I…
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Fly Me to the Moon by Tina Oloyede I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part One: Last time, I was on surer footing as I attempted to explain why I know…
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The Listening Heaven by Elizabeth Mansco I Know What I Like My aesthetic sensibilities apparently run counter to the prevailing grain when it comes to my personal taste in fractal art. Photography, especially the…
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2766 by Jock Cooper Create your own visual style…let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. —Orson Welles The premise of this post is quite straightforward. I assert that Jock Cooper’s "Mechanicals"…
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Send Out the Probes by Linda Allison No one to date has had a more profound effect on fractal art style than Linda Allison. Her fractals became the template de rigor for the Fractal Universe…
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. —Walt Whitman Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. —Willem de Kooning Style is not…
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The Nature of Creativity in Fractal Art, Part 3: Editing and Personal Style
This third part is all about everything to do with fractal art that isn't automatic and machine generated. This is where the medium of fractal based automatism gets mixed with user inspired and guided modifications.…
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Sheets in the Wind and Rings of Gold: The Ultra Fractal Style
Whether you’re a fractal artist or simply just a fan of fractal art, you’re bound to eventually notice similarities in style and develop preferences for this kind of art or that kind of art. Fractal…
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The sudden coincidence of art and fractals: a review of recent artworks
I'd given up blogging about fractal art and the sight of this image reinspired me. It was the art, not the fractals. It's all geometry and nothing but geometry and yet there's nothing square about…
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Speak, Fractalbookers!
How dare you? Really, really, really… [Image seen here.] It seems a flash mob of Fractalbookers has lowered the drawbridge and surged out of their virtual fortress. Upon hearing Kerry Mitchell’s clarion call on the…
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NASA’s Earth Day Fractals
Susitna Glacier Alaska’s Susitna Glacier revealed some of its long, grinding journey when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead on Aug. 27, 2009. I’ll be back…
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I Feel Corporate and Inspirational Too!
While doing some serious research on calendars recently, I stumbled on a gallery where:Big Black Framesand Short Inspirational TitlesIn Glowing White TextSeparated by a White LineWith Snappy Quotation Subtitles BelowWere The House Specialty They looked…
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A Better Mars: Fractal Space Exploration
The iterative nature of fractal formulas creates not just fascinating images but entire worlds. Exploration of these "worlds" has been a major theme of fractal art from it's very first days back in the 1970s.
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Engraver’s Paradise: Fractal Imaginator
Fractal Imaginator has a very rare talent: it renders images that look like old-time engraved illustrations, tinted line drawings and horror comics from the 1970s.
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Random Fractals are the Original Graphical AI
Where was graphical AI back in 1999? Nowhere! that’s where. Terry Gintz on the other hand, was already there: May 1999 — Added random fractal methods to Fractal Zplot 1.18. June 1999 — completed Fractal…
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Van Gogh travelled through time, saw my fractal and RIPPED ME OFF!!!
He even copied the little tree-like thing in the middle of mine. Oh, did you see the “moon” in my fractal in the upper right hand corner? Not as ostentatious as Van Gogh’s but…
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Why is HalTenny’s stuff better?
If one person can produce fractal work that other users can't then there must be some personal component to fractal art. On DeviantArt HalTenny's 3D fractal work stands out and I think I've figured out…
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Kandid beats Apophysis, Chaotica and JWildfire with millions of colors tied behind its back!!!
An old, point and click program operating in grayscale can be more creative and artistically profitable to use than a cutting-edge fractal flame renderer like Chaotica or JWildfire.
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Is JWildfire any better than Chaotica?
Just like Chaotica, JWildfire has produced a handful of cool looking artworks but has its advances in flame fractal rendering helped artists overcome the obstacle to creative innovation in the genre of flame fractals?
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Is that all there is to Chaotica?
Not too long ago, before the advent of the Mandelbox and Mandelbulb 3D fractals, there were basically two types of fractals and two types of fractal artists: plain fractals and flame fractals. Flame fractals were…
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The Nature of Creativity in Fractal Art, Part 5: Artist or Symbiont?
Executive summary The user does what the machine can’t do and the machine does what the user can’t do and together they make something. Automatism explains how fractal imagery works and mutation explains how a…
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The Nature of Creativity in Fractal Art, Part 2: Mutationism
In the first posting I made the argument that fractal art is a variety of automatism. Automatism being imagery that is created by an automatic, self-operating device. One doesn’t draw fractals, the fractal program draws…
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The Nature of Creativity in Fractal Art, Part 1: Automatism
Six months ago… I decided to summarize… and bring to completion… all my thoughts… …about whatever it is my computer hobby is all about. I didn’t even have a good label for it. But nothing…
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Galleries of the Gods
As I said in my last post, there’s something captivating about the Buddhist artworks in the Mogao caves in northwestern China and, strangely enough, I find it to be reminiscent of things I’ve seen in…
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Fractals are the Mogao Caves of our times
Alright, maybe it’s just me but the image above and just about everything else in the Mogao Caves bears a strong visual resemblance to what I see in fractal programs. What I see in fractal…
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The Art Dimension: turning fractals into art
In my previous series of postings (first, second) on how to separate the art from the fractals, I basically say that the only way to do more with fractals than simply create computer crafts is…
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Why can’t fractals do what art does?
Over the years I’ve come to see this as the perennial problem in fractal art. Naturally there are many other perspectives regarding the “art-worthiness” of fractals, among which the most common seems to be that…
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Only …the Awesome!
There are many ways to judge fractal artworks; you could look for beauty, whatever that is, or you could look for expression, or artistic merit, or something else too profound for words. I look for…
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No Talk of Art at Fractal Art Conference
Untitled by Alice Olive And then you get an artist says he doesn’t want to paint at all He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall –"In the Gallery," Dire Straits…
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Maybe You Should Stop Calling Yourself a “Fractal Artist”
Oxford Tire Pile 9b by Edward Burtynsky [Click on images to see higher resolution renditions.] Shut up and play your guitar. —Frank Zappa Seriously. I mean it. Calling yourself a "fractal artist" could be…
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Fuh, fuh, fuh… Fractals!
I apologize in advance if this post seems like nothing more than a roundup of fractals recently posted to Fractalforums.com, that mega mecca of all things fractal, but that forum site just seems to have…
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Fresh Fractal Finds
Here’s a bunch of images that caught my eye while out prospecting with my virtual mule. Let’s take a look while I try to psychoanalyze myself and add another chapter in the book, “Art as…
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“Let It Iterate…Let It Iterate…Let It Iterate…”
Photographs of Snowflakes by Alexey Kljator Nothing better reveals the pervasiveness of underlying fractal patterns that lie beyond the scrim of our sensory perceptions than microphotography. The medium digs gold mines for fractal treasure…
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The Synthetic Aesthetic 5: Surrealist Pioneers
The work of some surrealist artists back in the early 20th century involved the use of creative methods that are almost analogous to many of our modern computerized algorithms and effects. For people like myself…
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The Synthetic Aesthetic 4: The Creative Device
The Creative Device Synthetic art has only one principle to it: the creative device. As a result, the synthetic aesthetic is not bound to any particular medium but rather is a way of being creative…