{"id":420,"date":"2009-10-14T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=420"},"modified":"2009-10-14T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:49:00","slug":"dan-wills-fractal-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wills: Fractal Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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halleyDetailTwoPointNine…<\/i> by Dan Wills<\/a>, 2008
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Like a needle in a haystack, or a glowing<\/i> needle in a fractal formula, is the rumor of a continent over the horizon or the possibility of some new and intriguing fractal artwork out there, somewhere<\/i>, on the internet.\u00a0 My impression after browsing over Dan Wills’ Picasa web gallery<\/a> is that he’s someone who excels in searching out new kinds of fractal imagery.<\/p>\n

All done in Ultra Fractal, Dan’s artwork stands out from the usual UF type of artwork in it’s pure fractal simplicity.\u00a0 This is fractal art in it’s most authentic and engaging presentation –snapshots from a New World<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova… <\/i>by Dan Wills<\/a>, 2008
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This second image I chose for it’s naturalistic look and for the subtle, but impressive coloring.\u00a0 You can really see here the wide variety of fractal forms and seemingly endless unique details to be explored.\u00a0 I don’t know why more UF artists don’t produce work like Dan has done here.\u00a0 Maybe they need a Columbus to tell them it’s there first?\u00a0 Well, let’s continue our voyage…<\/p>\n

The next image I found to be really something worth writing home about.\u00a0 It’s from his superpositions<\/a> collection (the first one was from the ultraEpsilon<\/a>, and the second from the butterflyLaces<\/a>).\u00a0 The hazy appearance to all the images like this one add a realistic touch, and in a 3D sort of way.\u00a0 The Julia things look like they’ve been frozen into the larger fractal shapes.\u00a0 It’s an interesting mix of what you’d expect to be very standard, even dull, fractal themes but yet the result is a new hybrid thing –a super positioning, as the gallery title suggests.<\/p>\n

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butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova<\/i>… <\/i>by Dan Wills<\/a>, 2007
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Is work like this too simple to be worth drawing people’s attention to?\u00a0 Or, rather, is it too fractal<\/i> for most people in the fractal world today?\u00a0 We can add photo-imagery and luscious, de-luxious<\/i>, rendering layers and create ever grander and more lavish recipes, but none of that beats plain old, hard-core, fundamentalist fractal imagery.\u00a0 Why work like this has sat in obscurity like it has is yet another testimony to how new and still growing the fractal art form is.<\/p>\n

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butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova…<\/i> by Dan Wills<\/a>, 2008
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This one ought to be enough to start a whole new legend of El Dorado.\u00a0 They’re out there.\u00a0 Maybe you can track down Dan and beg him to give you a copy of his treasure map, that coveted parameter file, that made this image.\u00a0 Nice coloring.\u00a0 Subtle, but attractive and still natural looking.\u00a0 Another good example of the complexity of “ordinary” fractal art.<\/p>\n

I expect to see more work like this, simple and powerful —spawn of the math-machine–<\/i> fractal wonders.\u00a0 And it won’t be because it’s promoted or given Olympic gold medals.\u00a0 More will be created because there’s plenty more New Worlds out there beyond the horizon and artists like Dan Wills and others will gladly go there, even in obscurity, and bring back snapshots to the Old World because it’s just a natural thing for them to do –-explore<\/i>.\u00a0 Fractal art is like that.<\/p>\n

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