Dialup warning- Some new fractal art and a challenge.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

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Are there any other fractal artists still posting in the Lounge? If so, this is your last chance to call me out. I want competition, not simply a few responses from a handful of regulars. There used to be many artists from many disciplines here. Are you ALL gone?

I hope not.

I hereby challenge the members of the DU Lounge to post your works in the spirit of an artistic revival. Anyone here got the stones to step up? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[Ptah]

1. OK

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Yep, looks lke you and I are on our own.

I pretty much suspected it.

Such is life. :shrug:

[Demoiselle]

2. Wow. Thank you both...

I'm sorry I can't contribute anything ...but what a treat to see your work!

[applegrove]

3. I like the shapes in the 4th one.

[HopeHoops]

5. I don't do it much anymore but I started about 1987. My buddy still does them.

He's the same one who helped me put together animations for my mathematics seminar in college (on a Mac II). His current work is mostly kaleidoscope images using renderings as the base, but the application supports using any image - http://idisk.mac.com/DChampney-Public/Kaleidoscopes.app.zip.

He still calls the main program by the same name he used in the 80's - FractalWorks. Here's a review of it with some screen shots: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/mac/FractalWorks-Review-145285.shtml

The animations were of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets (56-frame animation). The first was a 36-frame dive into what we called the "seahorses" (on the main cardioid in the valley of the first circle on the real axis). We call the other side of the valley the "elephants". For the Julia sets, we passed out of the cardioid's asshole on the real axis to watch the Julia set go from a rectangular blob to the disconnected cauliflower "telephone handsets" pattern. The main point of that was to show that the Julia sets are connected when the center point is part of the Mandelbrot set, or in other words that the Mandelbrot set is a mapping of the connected Julia sets. I also used Logo on an Apple II+ to render the progressions of a Koch curve.

To find the best locations for the animations, I had my Apple II+, my C=64, as well as two Apple IIe's and an Apple II GS (I think those were the models) at the college running all night plotting six images each at 50 iterations for various sample points. They were crude, but sufficient to allow me to narrow down what we wanted to do with the animations. We also created a logarithmically-based color table for FractalWorks that would let us change parameters to enhance the detail based on how deep into the set we were. Damn were those things pretty.

I really should write a new program. I've got a 3.33GHz Win7 Ultimate tower with a six-core i7, 24GB of RAM, 9TB of mostly free disk space, and VS 2010. I think that puppy could do some rendering.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. You really mean to tell me this place is now an artistic wasteland?

I'm appalled. :cry:

[GReedDiamond]

7. Probably nobody cares, but...

...here's my upcoming new CD cover:



And I'm working with my favorite rising Los Angeles artist, Jaime GERMS Zacarias on converting one of these kind of creatures from his paintings into a prototype for a really cool FLOOR LAMP:



And, great work everyone, what I've seen so far!

There must be more of you out there...?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Great stuff there!

Here's a fractal I created years ago that I always thought would make a great CD cover for someone.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. I guess I'd call myself a "former fractal artist"...

...I don't even remember how I used to do it. I has the "Kai's Power Tools" plug-ins in Photoshop but stopped installing that when I upgraded to CS2 (my current version). I have a few "mix CDs" I made with "CD Stomper" inkjet labels that had my fractal art on them (stopped doing that...CDs with labels jam in my current car player).

I still do all kinds of over-the-top Photoshop stuff but it has been a while since I dabbled in fractals.

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