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Blitzkommando
Oct 10, 2006, 04:10 AM
That's right. Mathematical art is what this is. For those of you who haven't heard of fractals, or fractal art, I would recommend to look those up on wikipedia. As such, I'm not going to get into the particulars here, I'm just here to share the art.

One thing to note about these pictures is that they are 1680 pixels wide and either 1050 or 1022 pixels tall. If you have a non-widescreen monitor they will probably stretch out too much to use. However, I expect to re-do some of these, if not all, in more common formats. I just wanted some wallpapers in my monitor's native resolution.

These are my first fractal pieces and I still have a whole slew to learn. Also, the smallest picture is a little over 1MB. So, if you have a rather slow connection or have limited bandwidth you might want to view just one or two.

The first one is called Two O'clock. I called it that because one of the things it reminded me of was a clock at about two o'clock. It also reminded me of a coiled snake with fangs. In the end it came out rather dark and also reminded me of Doom 3.

Two O'clock (http://blitzkommando.com/fractals/apophysis/two-o'clock.jpg)

This one is called X-boxes. I really did hardly anything for this one other than tweak the colors and add a couple additional triangles. I thought it came out perfect for a green and black desktop. It somewhat reminds me of a basket or woven material.

X-boxes (http://blitzkommando.com/fractals/apophysis/x_boxes.jpg)

This one is my favorite thus far. It just flows so well. Again, I'm beginning so it wasn't anything overly fancy, but I ended up liking the result so much I completed my task and this was made my wallpaper. I call it Zen Dragon. It reminded me of both the fluid motions of a Chinese dragon as well as a play I saw not too long ago that was set in a Chinese atmosphere by both the lines and especially the colors.

Zen Dragon (http://blitzkommando.com/fractals/apophysis/zen-dragon.jpg)

This one is called Cross-Eyed. For one reason, it lookes like a crossed out eye. The other, it makes me go cross-eyed from the colors. This one was made with an entirely different program and took far longer to compile than the others. It's not really good as a wallpaper, but it works as something neat to look at.

Cross-Eyed (http://blitzkommando.com/fractals/fe/cross-eyed.jpg)

SabZero
Oct 10, 2006, 07:36 AM
I love fractal art! Do you know a freeware or open-source program for Win2000? I used to play around with one for Win3! Good old times http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Dhylec
Oct 10, 2006, 12:44 PM
Hm.. very interesting. The first 3 look abstract, but the last one, crossed-eyed, is more fascinating. I guess it must be the colors.

Mitz
Oct 10, 2006, 02:31 PM
Oh fractal art. I thought you had vector art *dissapointed* I like the abstract though.

Blitzkommando
Oct 10, 2006, 03:15 PM
On 2006-10-10 05:36, SabZero wrote:
I love fractal art! Do you know a freeware or open-source program for Win2000? I used to play around with one for Win3! Good old times http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif



There is a rather large collection of freeware and open-source fractal creation utilities.

I used Apophysis and Fractal Explorer.

http://www.apophysis.org/

http://www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer/

For a list of many others, some of which are very complex, others are very basic, check the wikipedia artical on fractals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

A2K
Oct 10, 2006, 06:38 PM
Very nice. The first one reminds me of the default Ubuntu desktop, for some reason. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

navci
Oct 10, 2006, 06:52 PM
I rather like the Zen Dragon one. I agree with you that it flows well.