Month: February 2011

8 min 0

BMFAC: “We Are All Winners Now”

This does not look like an art exhibition. Two photographs of the exhibition of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest in Hyderabad, India, 2010. Photographs released by Esin Turkakin. Photographs of the showcase exhibition of…
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4 min 3

presenting… The Information Hallway!

  • Tim
  • 20 February, 2011
Still so sure it’s a better place to introduce people to fractal art than the (now old-fashioned) information highway –the internet? The recently released photos of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest Exhibition really underline…
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6 min 11

The Roots of BMFAC

It wasn’t the sleep of reason that gave birth to a monster. Some of Orbit Trap’s critics have taken issue with our claim that the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest (BMFAC) is nothing more than…
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7 min 0

2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fractal Art Blogging

  • Tim
  • 8 February, 2011
I’m sorry, but I can’t give out too many details about the actual recipient because the prize winning  journalist has been keeping  a very low profile in order to avoid “the haters” of the fractal…
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6 min 0

On Style 2

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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6 min 1

The Art of the Strange Place

  • Tim
  • 7 February, 2011
Although it's probably been a perennial theme in fractal art from the beginning, the recent 3D fractal explosion has greatly increased the number of images whose main impression is that of The Strange Place. Because…
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4 min 0

Parameter File Sharing For Dummies

  • Tim
  • 4 February, 2011
Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. biblegateway.com The most recent…
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4 min 1

Ultra Poetry

  • Tim
  • 3 February, 2011
Well, the Ultra Fractal Mailing List is at it again. Last time it was opera, but this time it’s bongos, coffee houses and poetry readings. I’ve reformatted the original excerpts to give them that “je…
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3 min 2

Fractal Computing

  • Tim
  • 2 February, 2011
Back in 2006, Juan Luis Martinez (Fractovia.org) wrote a post explaining why despite the growing popularity (and growing hip-ness) of the Macintosh computing platform we shouldn’t expect a similar proliferation of fractal programs to follow…
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