{"id":3572,"date":"2011-12-01T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-12-06T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:10:06","slug":"best-fractal-calendar-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Best Fractal Calendar Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3574\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalforums.com\/fractalforums-com-calendar-project\/t9601\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3574\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3574  \" title=\"51elm7iQIJL._SL500_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/51elm7iQIJL._SL500_.jpg?resize=500%2C353\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/51elm7iQIJL._SL500_.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/51elm7iQIJL._SL500_.jpg?resize=400%2C282&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractalforums.com 2012 Calendar (Cover art by Johan Anderssen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why is it the best fractal calendar ever?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great artwork by the best 3D fractal artists today<\/li>\n<li>Authentic, state-of-the-art fractal imagery that didn&#8217;t exist even a year ago<\/li>\n<li>Big!\u00a0 Printed on A3 paper (297 \u00d7 420 millimeters or 11.69 \u00d7 16.54 inches)<\/li>\n<li>Chosen by real artists and fractal enthusiasts, not a political clique<\/li>\n<li>Contains artwork that has been highly praised in multiple online venues<\/li>\n<li>A real &#8220;art&#8221; publication and not just another kitchen calendar with fractals<\/li>\n<li>From the online forum where the original 3D Mandelbulb was born<\/li>\n<li>First of it&#8217;s kind; a souvenir of 3D fractal history<\/li>\n<li>Spiral bound, not stapled and hole punched like the <em>cheap-ies<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Help support the best online fractal forum community<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalforums.com\/fractalforums-com-calendar-project\/t9601\/\">Ordering information on Fractalforums.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I&#8217;m excited about this one.\u00a0 After all those years of the sickly (leprous!) Fractal Universe Calendar that &#8220;featured&#8221; cliche flowery spirals and was an annual embarrassment to the fractal art world, this Fractalforums.com 2012 Calendar is a sign that better things are truly possible in the fractal art world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3576\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3576\" title=\"DSC00147\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC00147.jpg?resize=500%2C371\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC00147.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC00147.jpg?resize=400%2C296&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The very first one, proudly hung on the wall of Christian Kleinhuis, the proud Daddy of Fractalforums.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The calendar is being sold by Christian Kleinhuis, the sole sponsor and operator of Fractalforums.com.\u00a0 For those of you who don&#8217;t know much about him, he has this to say about himself and how he came to Fractalforums.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About Me:<\/p>\n<p>Christian Kleinhuis, 35; Working as Web-Programmer in Cologne,Germany, living in Bonn.<\/p>\n<p>Working with fractals and knowing about the theory behind it has inspired me, like most of us at the Fractalforums from a programming background.\u00a0 I started my first mandelbrot in the year of 1990 in amiga basic.\u00a0 My goal back then was to create a comfortable zoom tool to enable zooming into transforming fractals.\u00a0 This was the time my first mutatorkammer was developed &#8211;a generic formula creator for iterative formulas.\u00a0 I really don&#8217;t know if it was done earlier, but I found it out on my own.\u00a0 I was using hybrid formulas, mainly alternative forms of hybrid formulas, where formulas (or just the parameters) are exchanged in each iteration step.<\/p>\n<p>Ultrafractal has always been a source of inspiration, and THE database for fractal formulas, especially coloring algorithms.\u00a0 Ultrafractal then developed the animation functionality, and I saw that it was perfect, and that my style of code (rather show that its working,and not make a usable program) wouldn&#8217;t lead to such great usability &#8230; this was then around 2006, when the Fractalforums.com was founded by &#8220;Jason Henegan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was hanging out with about 70,000 clicks a month, counted by the board, meaning that it has to be divided by 5 to 10 &#8230; when Jason Henegan wanted to sell his domain, it was me that took over the domain with the data&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea for the calendar came to Christian around Spring of this year, 2011, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalforums.com\/index.php?topic=7508.msg32930#msg32930\">he was considering<\/a> ways of defraying the costs of hosting the forum.\u00a0 He alone was covering the cost of the forum&#8217;s expenses.\u00a0 A change of hosts and increased advertising revenue improved the financial situation for the forum but he still wanted to produce a calendar and thought it was good idea for the forum in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fall he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalforums.com\/nominees\/calendar-2012-change-of-plan-but-it-is-coming!\/\">put up a poll<\/a> on the forum to find out what interest members might have in buying a calendar.\u00a0 The response was encouraging enough so he made plans for selecting the images and finding a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The image selection was a combination of monthly voting choices by the forum membership (where the data was available) and also Christian&#8217;s own personal selections which were needed to bring the total up to 12 monthly images and artwork for the cover.\u00a0 Hybrid judging from a hotbed of hybrid 3D fractals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the images is a winner in the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2011.\u00a0 Three others are variations of winning entries in the BMFAC 2011 by the same authors and reflect the sort of &#8220;multiple venue&#8221; selection I mentioned at the beginning.\u00a0 All of them will be familiar to those who frequent Deviant Art&#8217;s fractal pages.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, all the images are good ones and while there are maybe one or two that I&#8217;m not as excited about, there aren&#8217;t any mediocre ones and there aren&#8217;t any that resemble the sort of junk the Fractal Universe Calendar used to cough out year after year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the individual pages:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3577\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3577\" title=\"jan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jan.jpeg?resize=500%2C358\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jan.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jan.jpeg?resize=400%2C286&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iEar by Louis Markoya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Louis&#8217; winning BMFAC 2011 entry was a variation on this theme.\u00a0 In case you don&#8217;t know, Mr. Markoya is a newcomer to the world of fractal art &#8211;just this year in fact&#8211; but he&#8217;s a long time member of the larger art world and even collaborated with the great Salvador Dali back in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3578\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3578\" title=\"feb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/feb.jpeg?resize=500%2C358\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/feb.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/feb.jpeg?resize=400%2C286&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viaduct by Krzysztof Marczak<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s his program so he can put a shiny monolith in it if he wants to.\u00a0 Krzysztof Marczak is the author of Mandelbulber, one of the popular 3D fractal programs that grew up around Fractalforums.com.\u00a0 He&#8217;s quite accomplished with the program&#8217;s fine art of embedding objects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3579\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3579\" title=\"mar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mar.jpg?resize=500%2C355\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mar.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mar.jpg?resize=400%2C284&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of Quadray Set by J. Dierks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my own all-time favorites.\u00a0 The thumbnail doesn&#8217;t do justice to the full size image.\u00a0 Like Krzysztof, Jesse Dierks wrote the program his images are made on.\u00a0 You see how much talent there is on Fractalforums.com?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3583\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3583\" title=\"apr\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/apr.jpeg?resize=500%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/apr.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/apr.jpeg?resize=400%2C285&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secret Microcity by Jeremie Brunet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jeremie needs less introduction than most 3D fractal artists do.\u00a0 He&#8217;s had at least two shows of his artwork in Paris (France), a spot on a French TV art channel, and probably a few other things even I don&#8217;t know about.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3584\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3584\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3584\" title=\"may\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/may.jpeg?resize=500%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/may.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/may.jpeg?resize=400%2C285&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bridges to Everywhere by Brent McNeely<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brent is better known online as &#8220;Dainbramage&#8221; although he has yet to show any signs of permanent mental impairment.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a good example of those complex fractal forests that exhibit squares, circles and just about everything in between; an Eiffel Tower Forest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3585\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3585\" title=\"june\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/june.jpeg?resize=500%2C358\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/june.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/june.jpeg?resize=400%2C286&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Underwater Amazing Object by Jeremie Brunet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Two images by the same artist?\u00a0 This is Jeremie&#8217;s winning entry in the BMFAC 2011 where their (unwritten) rules state that an artist can only truly have one good image a year.\u00a0 Everyone loves this one and evidently Mr Kleinhuis does too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3586\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3586\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3586\" title=\"july\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/july.jpeg?resize=500%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/july.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/july.jpeg?resize=400%2C276&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea Invader by Torsten Stier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Torsten, known also as &#8220;taurus66&#8221; is a dedicated explorer of the 3d fractal interiors.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also one of the few artists who dares to be colorful and does a good job of it.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not afraid to use lake effect either, although he hasn&#8217;t in this one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3587\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3587\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3587\" title=\"aug\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/aug.jpeg?resize=500%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/aug.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/aug.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wasp Troll by Johan Anderssen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another widely popular image and a variation of a BMFAC 2011 winning entry.\u00a0 This was a monthly winner as chosen by the Fractalforums.com membership voting and won a few other awards elsewhere.\u00a0 The whole world seems to love Johan&#8217;s Wasp Troll series of images.\u00a0 I find them a little scary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3588\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3588\" title=\"sept\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sept.jpeg?resize=500%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sept.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sept.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3d Burning Ship by Jeremie Brunet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three images?\u00a0 Ay caramba!\u00a0 Hey, it&#8217;s all about art, not about artists.\u00a0 Jeremie is always pushing the envelope of the Mandelbox and if the calendar could accommodate animation then his amazing vidoes would take up at least half the spots.\u00a0 Maybe living in Paris just gives artists a little edge?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3589\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3589\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3589\" title=\"oct\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oct.jpeg?resize=500%2C358\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oct.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/oct.jpeg?resize=400%2C286&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infinity&#39;s Eye by Ross Hilbert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ross is another artist who has also created the machinery he works with.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing, but I think this one was made with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalsciencekit.com\/\">Fractal Science Kit<\/a>.\u00a0 If you hang out at Fractalforums.com you will have seen many other richly detailed geometric artworks made by him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s another &#8220;pillar&#8221; of the Fractalforums.com community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3590\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3590\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3590\" title=\"nov\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nov.jpeg?resize=500%2C354\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nov.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nov.jpeg?resize=400%2C283&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point of Origin by Hal Tenny<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve seen anything this year in the world of 3D fractals you&#8217;ve seen some of these bronze metalworks.\u00a0 Hal Tenny makes the best ones and I think he also made either the original ones or at least gave them their incredible popularity.\u00a0 He had a winning entry at the BMFAC 2011 that was a variation of this.\u00a0 Everyone finds these things cool to look at.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to believe they&#8217;re not photographs, the surface texture and lighting is so realistic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3591\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3591\" title=\"dec\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dec.jpeg?resize=500%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dec.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dec.jpeg?resize=400%2C285&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Beest by Forest Walz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fine choice for a Winter month.\u00a0 The small image here doesn&#8217;t quite show the wide range of shapes and crystalline details in this fractal &#8220;beest&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the easiest thing to find this sort of dragon-like image and present it in such a pleasing way.\u00a0 Fractal art can be a real challenge sometimes because it&#8217;s pretty easy to make and that makes it hard to create something that stands out so well as this.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there you have it.\u00a0 What a great event to finish off the year with.\u00a0 Hopefully the calendar will sell well and this Fractalforums.com 2012 Calendar will become the first edition of an annual event.\u00a0 Christian Kleinhuis and the forum voters have made a great selection.\u00a0 The extra large size the calendar has been printed in along with the spiral binding ought to make for a long-lasting tribute to how great the early days of 3D fractals on Fractalforums.com has been.<\/p>\n<p>Why not grab a piece of fractal art history and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalforums.com\/fractalforums-com-calendar-project\/t9601\/\">buy one?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>## update 02\/12\/2011: Christian Kleinhuis sends in these comments about each of the images, starting with the front page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1 title page &#8211; artist-mathematician-programmer the classic bunch of people hanging around at the forums, and whose konglomerative work have produced this calendar and most of everything at the forums&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2. iear &#8211; listening to what might come this year<\/p>\n<p>3. travelling highway &#8211; the coder of one of the programs needed to be inside, funny thing is that it is in fact more of a test rendering, to test his program interact with euclidean geometry &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>4. approaching the city &#8211; jens is the other coder, and as well we have a test rendering here as well, jens just tried out a formula which he grabbed up at the forums, and this one popped out straight away!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. eploring the microcity parts &#8211; nice example of depth of field usage, and yes, bib has three entries, but this was not a candidate for discussion ;) it belongs to the pics of the kind: &#8220;this has to be inside!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>6. exploring fractal city further &#8211; showing of the rudimental aspect of converting a formula from 2d to 3d, the\u00a0 sierpinskie structures nicely arrange in 3d, and thus this image is not only voted by the community, it show off some very basic fractal behaviour &#8211; namely self-similarity &#8211; which is not so well visible in all of the other images ;)<\/p>\n<p>7. exploring the sea -(more of a secret ) \u00a0if one of the images could be a problem it is this one, and should better have been exchanged with a better one &#8230;. first it won the annual compo, and the bfmac, and thus i felt like i had to use it, but it is in fact cropped far more as it would be good, and additionally the background of this image comes out very dark&#8230;. but c&#8217;est la vie!<\/p>\n<p>8. summer jellyfish &#8211; this image always blows me away when i see it, love the colors and structure, and i am happy to push taurus into creating a 16:9 version out of his original 4:3 one &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>9. deep sea lifeforms &#8211; now more words about this one, just an extraordinary example of chaotic stuff that comes out of a single formula &#8230; johan not only helped in creating the calendar he also took is artistic-freedom and designed a 16:9 image out of his original 4:3 one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>10 flying dutchmen arriving &#8211; this image is in here, mostly because i want to honor the achievement of 3d fractals in general, and this image shows nicely how a 2d structure would look in 3d, just google for &#8220;burning ship&#8221; fractal, and you can show everyone that the 2d companion is just a slice through the 3d-burning-ship-fractal-bread<\/p>\n<p>11. 2d cut &#8211; infinites eye &#8211; i wanted to honor ross for his extraordinary sharp and clean usage of ifs renderings, beside of that this image won the annual 2d compo &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>12 the work behind the scenes &#8211; this always reminds me about lenords work, but this image has been community voted, and it is the one that strikes most of the &#8220;normal&#8221; people, the ask when watching it: &#8220;is this a fractal ? or is it out of a computer game?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>13 up up and away &#8211; the journey continues, with this striking image &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Kleinhuis of Fractalforums.com has just published a 2010 fractal calendar.  Featuring the best artwork form Fractalforums.com and printed large size and spiral bound, it hopefully marks a new era in fractal art publishing.  A review of the images and background on how the project came about. <a href=\"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3574,"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-3572","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\/12\/51elm7iQIJL._SL500_.jpg?fit=500%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4027,"url":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4027","url_meta":{"origin":3572,"position":0},"title":"Brother, can you spare $58?","author":"Tim","date":"31 October, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Fractalforums.com's owner, Christian Kleinhuis (aka Trifox) is attempting to put out another fractal art calendar this year.\u00a0 I reviewed last year's and called it, \"The Best Fractal Calendar Ever!\". 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