{"id":2730,"date":"2011-07-14T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:55:08","slug":"more-computer-art-for-the-old-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"More Computer Art for the Old Folks…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gero Wortmann, hailing from Munich, Germany may not be as old as me but some of the stuff he makes I really like.<\/p>\n

~ Click images to view full size on original website ~<\/em><\/p>\n

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Group photo of Gero Wortmann's Form and Deconstruction set (Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

They look fractal, but what does that really mean?\u00a0 His work really focuses on the basic shape and form of the image.\u00a0 Generated in POV-Ray somehow.\u00a0 Script?\u00a0 Too complicated for me.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from Gero Wortmann's Flickr site<\/p><\/div>\n

Fractal Origami is how I’d describe it.\u00a0 Here’s another lazy blogger screenshot of something very recent.\u00a0 It’s a red\/blue 3D glasses image.\u00a0 If you’re old you’ll have a pair within reach like I do.\u00a0 Even without the glasses it’s still nice.<\/p>\n

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Gero Wortmann, Click to visit full size on his Flickr site...<\/p><\/div>\n

“Fractalism”\u00a0 That’s a label Gero has for another (apparently identical) set of images…<\/p>\n

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From Gero Wortmann's Flickr site<\/p><\/div>\n

I knew they had fractal origins. \u00a0 I’ve learned a few things over the years.\u00a0 I guess POV-Ray can generate this sort of fractal thing or else some other program can which can then import its results into POv-rAy for rendering.\u00a0 I made a donut once in poV-RAy.\u00a0 It’s easier writing blog postings.\u00a0 They called it a “torus”.<\/p>\n

Time for some thoughtful commentary…<\/p>\n

Although these “fractals” are simplified in their rendering, I find they have more style and aesthetic stuff to them.\u00a0 Often fractals have too much detail and coloring to them and the beauty of their shape and pattern is lost in a crowd of competing details.<\/p>\n

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Original Tron (1982) when wireframe was cool and looked advanced<\/p><\/div>\n

Wireframe view has been utilized by graphics programs as a way to handle complex images but it’s another example of the primitive graphical style of stone age computing that I like.\u00a0 The movie Tron tries to capture that style which in some ways fits with the old, DOS computing age of text only, console mode computing.\u00a0 Tron jazzes it up a bit but the minimalistic style still remains.<\/p>\n

Minimalism.\u00a0 That’s something worth experimenting with.\u00a0 It’s an old trick really.\u00a0 Sometimes less is more.\u00a0 Or at least it’s more effective.<\/p>\n

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bug from Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

This insect has strong design appeal because it balances shape and detail.\u00a0 Fractal rendering could benefit from that sort of thing.\u00a0 One way to do it is to render plain images and then fry them in photoshop filters –the ultimate bug machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Gero Wortmann, hailing from Munich, Germany may not be as old as me but some of the stuff he makes I really like. ~ Click images to view full size on original website ~ They look fractal, but what does that really mean?\u00a0 His work really focuses on the basic shape and form of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Capture2.jpg?fit=471%2C314","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":362,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=362","url_meta":{"origin":2730,"position":0},"title":"Fractal Woodburning","author":"Tim","date":"28 January, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not making this up.\u00a0 I went surfing about to see what I could find in the fractal world and lo and behold at Flickr, a couple of pages into a search on the term \"fractal\", I saw wires, boards and strange, curly burn patterns.photo by AetherPhoto caption from Aether's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=248","url_meta":{"origin":2730,"position":1},"title":"Spider Writing","author":"Tim","date":"10 November, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Block-waving is all about lines. 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