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A collection of uniquely rendered fractal things.\u00a0 And a few that are just traditionally intriguing.<\/p>\n

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

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Elevenish by LucaGN (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

I almost skipped by this one while browsing away on Deviant Art.\u00a0 I think the icy-blue fruit chew wafers caught my eye and stopped me.\u00a0 Most people use Earthly colors for their mandelboxes but LucaGN must have asked, why? and came up with something wild and avante garde.\u00a0 If you check out the full size view you can see some nice Martian imagery out the “window” in the center.<\/p>\n

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For Eva by LucaGN<\/p><\/div>\n

Primitively fractalic.\u00a0 Must have been baked in a square pan as it fits the frame perfectly.\u00a0 LucaGN has a good eye for this sort of strangely stylistic imagery.\u00a0 I still can’t figure out what I like about this one but maybe LucaGN saw the same thing too.\u00a0 According to the image comments on DA “Eva” is Xantipa<\/a>, the Fractal Queen of Color.<\/p>\n

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Boleslawiec Delights by Timemit (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Ducks”\u00a0 Next to the whole 3D thing, the “Ducks” formula or whatever it is, is the most exciting thing to happen this year.\u00a0 Samuel Monnier on his Algorithmic Worlds Blog explains it<\/a> better than I can.\u00a0 I just look at “Duck” pictures and see that Ducks is a creative and surprisingly unpredictable thing full of variation.\u00a0 Timemit adds something more and has captured an almost Art Nouveau kind of geometry\/organic fusion thing.\u00a0 …silkscreen, batik, it’s just very captivating and really surprised me.\u00a0 Maybe Deviant Art is more than just a playground for socially disturbed people?\u00a0 I’m beginning to think so.<\/p>\n

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What the War Lost by Timemit<\/p><\/div>\n

Top left area is my favorite in this one, but the whole thing is a treasure trove of fractal gems.\u00a0 You see?\u00a0 You don’t need to know anything about “Ducks” to spot it instantly.\u00a0 There’s the theory of Ducks and the practice of Ducks.\u00a0 Do you see any of the “self-similarity” or boring repetition of the old time fractals here?\u00a0 Ducks is usually a wonderland of shape and color but this one by Timemit is an exceptionally good example.<\/p>\n

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Fractal_Years_by_misterxz (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I’m on the topic of Ducks, here’s one by the (allegedly) Ducks Master, Misterxz.\u00a0 This one is a fantastic image on it’s own right but especially as an example of the Duck-ian method.\u00a0 It doesn’t really look “fractal” at all, except, I guess for the tree things at the top and the Koch snowflake things near the bottom…\u00a0 I guess what makes it new and exciting is that there’s so much variety in what is a formula generated image.\u00a0 Ducks is a whole new world and Misterxz’s image here makes that pretty obvious.\u00a0 Ducks adds something categorically new to fractal graphics even if it’s not a huge break-though in fractal theory.<\/p>\n

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Ultrameta 731 by Dan Wills (Picasa)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dan’s in a rendering category all his own.\u00a0 He manages to find really weird stuff and capture it in an eye-catching way.\u00a0 This one is actually about a year old (Dec. 2010) so I must have missed it or something last time I checked out his Picasa Web Album Ultrameta gallery.\u00a0 Dan’s galleries are a voyage into the fractal unknown.\u00a0 You can’t view stuff like this and not want to grab your own “ship” and sail off yourself.\u00a0 Sometimes the renders are rough but that just seems to add to the “natural” authenticity and archaeological atmosphere of Dan’s collection.\u00a0 Ultrameta is an unexplored ancient tomb filled with intriguing artifacts that decorate its ghostly walls.<\/p>\n

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Balancing Act by Actionjack52 (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe this one isn’t so strangely rendered but it’s got a unique look to it.\u00a0 It’s just so perfect and exact and yet still lively and interesting.\u00a0 I like how the blue background seems to “stick” to the subject –or is that just an effect of the unsharp-mask?\u00a0 Actionjack52 has some other very nice images but in keeping with my offbeat theme let’s just look at his Deviant Art avatar:<\/p>\n

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World's greatest avatar by Actionjack52<\/p><\/div>\n

A marvel of graphical engineering.\u00a0 Just 5 animated gif frames for file size 6.92 kb!\u00a0 I can’t stop staring at it.\u00a0 Where does all that energy come from?\u00a0 Doesn’t he ever need to rest?<\/p>\n

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2011-07-27_00-30-11 by Daniel (Picasa)<\/p><\/div>\n

A delightful accident?\u00a0 Incomplete rendering?\u00a0 It’s a Mandelbulb 3D image that’s come out looking like an old Victorian hand tinted engraving.\u00a0 The actual structures and underlying parameters aren’t all that unusual, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this. \u00a0 Sometimes I think fractal artists try to make things look too good and they miss out on a lot of cool looking oddball renderings (and oddball fans).<\/p>\n

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Ice Arena 3010 by Actionjack52<\/p><\/div>\n

Would you believe it?\u00a0 This foggy, frosty image is also by Actionjack52 who made the ultra crisp wheel up above.\u00a0 Here’s a good example of how the stranger renderings can really create innovative stuff; it’s resulted in this very panoramic “winter” landscape.\u00a0 The curved “road” in the bottom right almost seems to exhibit tire tracks in the packed snow.\u00a0 Smoke drifting up from chimneys.\u00a0 Full moon lighting up the snow…\u00a0 Is this the Hunters in the Snow<\/em> of our fractal times?<\/p>\n

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Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel (1565)<\/p><\/div>\n

It ought to be titled: Dogs in the Snow<\/em>. \u00a0 Why so many dogs to go hunting?\u00a0 I guess if you don’t catch anything you can eat a dog instead.\u00a0 Just say it’s rabbit.\u00a0 This scene looks incredibly modern to me.\u00a0 I must be getting old.<\/p>\n

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Dabbling in Color by Dsynegrafix (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

How can something so square look so exotic?\u00a0 So many fractals display smooth curves and anything but sharp angles and simple lines but here is something fresh and refreshing.\u00a0 I guess the color contributes a lot to the artistic impression here also.\u00a0 It’s 3D and made in Mandelbulb 3D.\u00a0 There’s some sort of wiry, metal rod parameter set floating around DA that makes things like this.\u00a0 I suspect Madman’s (Fractalforums) Gluon Glitch video I reviewed<\/a> uses a variation of it.\u00a0 Dsynegrafix has added her own special touch to it though with unique, and colorful results.<\/p>\n

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In Lieu of Circles 4 by Dsynegrafix<\/p><\/div>\n

I love the orange\/gold structures in the right and left foregrounds.\u00a0 You really need to click on this one and view it full size to appreciate the “electronic” plastic-y feel to it.\u00a0 Reminds me of Jock Cooper’s Mechanical<\/em> <\/a>series of images.\u00a0 And Tron, the Disney movie, too; Electron Temple.<\/p>\n

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Pyropus by Eccoton (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s almost 2D at the bottom and gives the image a collage look.\u00a0 Coloring is really exceptional and also the variety of fractal structures.\u00a0 There is a strong symmetrical structure to this and yet it’s not a simple mirror image but rather exhibits more of a natural, organic symmetry.\u00a0 Click and look at the full size which is about 10 times larger and you’ll really be impressed with the professional look of this image by Eccoton.\u00a0 But then Eccoton, if you browse his gallery, you’ll see is a quite accomplished graphic artist of the hand drawn photoshop variety (the hard kind of art).\u00a0 Perhaps he touched this one up?\u00a0 Anyhow it sure looks polished and perfected.\u00a0 “Mandelbulb 3D\/Photoshop” the gallery page says.\u00a0 Nice combination.\u00a0 I keep thinking he’s cheated a whole lot in making this image; it’s just too good.<\/p>\n

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Ancient Sun by Mehrdadart (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

Nobody makes these sorts of golden renders like Mehrdadart does.\u00a0 The classic black frame, as often abused as it is used, actually looks nice with an image like this.\u00a0 There’s so many metalic colors in this image it’s almost suitable as a test image for color calibration.\u00a0 If you like this one you’ll like a lot of Mehrdadart’s other images.\u00a0 He makes a lot of 3D fractals and always gives them that something extra in the way of rendering and coloring that says “grandeur” if you will permit me to speak in the language d’art<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sunrise in China by Mehrdadart<\/p><\/div>\n

They look like windows.\u00a0 The full size is much more impressive.\u00a0 As the artist says, “Try the full size, please!”\u00a0 And the full-size is 1800 x 1665 (is that big enough for printing?).\u00a0 This one is actually a year old and has that classic square mandelbox look.\u00a0 But even still it’s got a unique, energetic quality to it that is not even close to its expiry date.\u00a0 Nobody ever made something like this back in 2010 with the mandelbox.<\/p>\n

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Connections by Actionjack52<\/p><\/div>\n

Actionjack52 again?\u00a0 Well, this one’s not really offbeat rendering but it is a sort of extreme<\/em> rendering because I’ve never seen such hyper-machined metalic-a surfaces before.\u00a0 This is the sort of thing many people will want to copy, I mean learn for themselves<\/em>, that is.\u00a0 I like the bird’s foot aspect to this.\u00a0 One often sees resemblances to natural forms in fractal art, such as this bird’s foot structure, because, I assume, somewhere in the internal structure of natural things or in the DNA of living things are codes that result in fractal looking (natural) renderings.\u00a0 A three toed foot is inherently stable.\u00a0 Rhinos have them.\u00a0 Of course they’re not birds.\u00a0 Not even close.\u00a0 They probably eat birds.\u00a0 Could mutations occur through ingested DNA?<\/p>\n

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Mandelbubbles by Jimmie (Fractalforums.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

BMFAC 2011 Retro Collection winner?\u00a0 Alright, forget I said that.\u00a0 From the Fractalforums.com gallery page: “Description: <\/strong>Inkblot… (Postwork in PSE…)”. \u00a0 (Inkblot Kaos?)\u00a0 Some sort of edge-detection filter and maybe a texturing thing too to give the leathery look.\u00a0 An old “trick” perhaps and not nearly as eye catching as the latest 3D rendering techniques but Jimmie has accentuated the simple shapes and patterning in this humble 2D fractal and made them interesting and resembling paper cut collages.\u00a0 The sharply defined mandelbrot man in the center is elegant in a simple way.<\/p>\n

Speaking of “papercuts”, here’s one recently unearthed from a storage room at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 Created originally by a small art academy in southern China back in the early days of the Cultural Revolution and acquired by a UofM professor via a source in Hong Kong back in the early 70s and subsequently forgotten until just recently when someone cleaned the storage room:<\/p>\n

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Translation: "Chairman Mao is the Reddest Sun in Our Hearts"<\/p><\/div>\n

China’s a far-out kind of place.\u00a0 These pictures are actually made of white cut-out paper pieces mounted on a red (very, very red) background.\u00a0 Check out the whole collection of 15<\/a> if you find these sorts of things as bizarre and sci-fi-ish as I do.\u00a0 The authors are unknown but they were certainly very skilled at this rather ancient art of chinese papercut artwork.\u00a0 News release of Nov. 1, 2011 for the collection.<\/a>\u00a0 History is a kind of science fiction.<\/p>\n

Let’s not end this posting with images of communist propaganda or with harsh, political speeches exhorting the fractal proletariat to Eliminate the Four Olds<\/a> (The List; The Contest; The Program; The Leader).\u00a0 Even I denounce myself as an enemy of fractal art and plead to be sent to the countryside for reeducation.\u00a0 Here’s something dramatic and considerably less political by Mehrdadart:<\/p>\n

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Aborning by Mehrdadart (DA)<\/p><\/div>\n

I like the simplicity to this one and how it accentuates the very simple fractal image.\u00a0 It’s “dramatic” but not sentimental like most “dramatic” fractal images are.\u00a0 It’s ironic that Mehrdadart who generally makes such rich, ornamental images could have produced something so different and yet equally engaging.\u00a0 It’s the connection with the little white dot on the right hand edge that “leverages” the rest of the image.\u00a0 Ultimately, fractal art is all about art, not fractals.<\/p>\n

There’s more.\u00a0 There always is.\u00a0 Especially now that I’ve found a more effective way to browse the labyrinthine passages of Deviant Art.\u00a0 My great discovery?\u00a0 I check out people’s “favorites” section.\u00a0 Oddly enough while fractal artists will endlessly promote heaps of their own garbage they are much more discerning when promoting the works of others.\u00a0 All the DA artists I’ve featured here were found because someone else (who probably wasn’t featured here) had “faved” them.\u00a0 It’s interesting how well the system works even though it’s routinely abused and manipulated –even as we speak!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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