{"id":275,"date":"2008-02-16T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-02-16T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:40:00","slug":"the-best-fractal-art-ever-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":""The Best Fractal Art Ever Created""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s an exciting neck and neck<\/a> (sea)horse race over at the idreamincolor<\/a> forum where the locals are busy buzzing and definitively storming the hive<\/a> while answering this honey-dripping question: What Is the Best Fractal Art Ever Created?<\/em><\/p>\n

Next week, rumor has it, members will reboot cerebrums to grok something less philosophically taxing…like: Which Is the One True Religion<\/a>? <\/em><\/p>\n

As one might imagine, there’s plenty of aesthetic wrangling and mucho<\/em> diversity of opinion<\/a> being displayed. So far, according to OT’s exclusive exit polls:<\/p>\n

To everyone’s surprise, the forum moderator’s friends are doing extremely well in the balloting. So, too, and most unexpectedly, is the moderator<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n

Naturally, much of the “best” fractal art “ever created” is found exclusively at online think tanks<\/strike> art communities like Renderosity and DeviantArt. If you aren’t a member, well, sad to report your museum<\/a> experience has suddenly gone dark, and the <\/span>best fractal art ever created<\/em> will remain unseen behind a shadowy scrim. Your only solution: register immediately, surf around billboard-blinking-gif undressed Poser babes<\/a>, through software ads, over backslapping<\/a> comment litanies, near parameter tweaking festivals, and, finally, settle and soak up all the self-similar greatness in a heavily commercialized and remediated environment. <\/p>\n

Despite pundit<\/a> predictions, Ultra Fractal images are absolutely trashing competing programs. In fact, now that I think back, I don’t remember seeing any<\/em> competing programs in the listings. According to poll workers<\/a>, most of the voters appeared to be UF users as well. A coincidence, no doubt — and certainly one within the statistical margin of error<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent live at campaign headquarters reports that the Fractal Universe editors and Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest judges are reaping major repeat lever pulls — apparently proving P. T. Barnum<\/a>‘s observation that if you select yourself as one of “the most important fractal artists in the world<\/a>,” there will always be suckers born every minute who will line up to proclaim you also produce the best fractal art ever created<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And this just in from the editorial desk<\/a>. No doubt some of OT’s recent commenters will applaud this survey as a positive, blogging landmark in finely honed fractal art critiquing. They will argue, unquestionably, if nothing else, this symposium delivers on crucial epistemological<\/a> criteria like insisting that suppositions should “spring from insight” and — more importantly for those exercising keen critical sensibilities — empirical evidence is invariably “presented in a way that will not be perceived as an attack<\/a> on those at whom it is directed.”<\/p>\n

In fact, I can feel the love all the way over here. Why it’s the penultimate \u00dcber<\/em> Top Twenty OF ALL TIME!!!!<\/p>\n

ANOTHER. MASTERPIECE<\/a>. AND. ANOTHER. AND. MY. GOD. STILL. ANOTHER. <\/p>\n

Yes
one
big
cosmic
karmic<\/a>
*V*!!!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

~\/~<\/p>\n

Sorry. I got a little carried away there. I had to take a short break to towel myself off on the fainting couch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was so pumped by all the excitement because I wanted to add my thoroughly uniterated two cents to this list of lists. But then I remembered that I could not participate since the moderator had banned me from the forum after just one post. Oh woe. If I understood what gnashing of teeth<\/a> was, I’d do it. <\/p>\n

But, fortunately, I am able to still post here at Orbit Trap — thanks to the Chinese communist overloads<\/a> who allow Tim and I to front this blog as their propagandistic puppet-stooges<\/a> when we aren’t kept busy in the OT sweatshop dabbing toxic paint on exported and easily breakable toys<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Even so, I present my suggestions with much sheepishness<\/a>. I know my entries for the best fractal art ever created <\/em> pale when compared to the dispassionately selected works being critically metastasized just around the cyber-block. Nonetheless, after considerable soul searching<\/a> and generator-wringing, here are my top five picks:<\/p>\n

#5 <\/p>\n

\"And <\/p>\n

\n
Broccoli<\/em><\/div>\n

<\/em><\/div>\n


<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>#4<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

\n
Frost<\/em><\/div>\n

<\/em><\/div>\n


<\/em><\/p>\n

#3<\/p>\n

\"100<\/p>\n

\n
Clouds<\/em><\/div>\n

<\/em><\/div>\n


<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>#2<\/p>\n

\"I'm<\/p>\n

\n
Trees<\/em><\/div>\n

<\/em><\/div>\n


<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>#1<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

Galaxies<\/p>\n

I know what you’re thinking. And you’re right. The Big Bang<\/a>‘s parameter files and The Creator<\/a>‘s iterations just cannot measure up.<\/p>\n

If only they’d used Ultra Fractal instead…<\/p>\n

~\/~<\/p>\n

Web sites for photo credits: broccoli<\/a>, frost<\/a>, clouds<\/a>, trees<\/a>, and galaxies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tags:<\/strong> fractal<\/a>, fractal art<\/a>, digital art<\/a>, best fractal art ever created<\/a>, pitiful natural fractal failures<\/a>, ultra fractal<\/a>, idreamincolor<\/a>, orbit trap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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