Comments on: Fractal art

Fractal art

Upton O'Good — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:03:37 -0800

40 fractals created with Apophysis, a freeware fractal flame generator.

For more fractal art, you can browse the extensive collections at deviantART, the source of all the images. mynameishalo and babymik, two of the more extensively sourced artists in the main link, are particularly worth a look, though all the artists are listed under their images. via Mathpuzzle.

By: troy

troy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:09:40 -0800

Please have these cleaned up and brought to my tent, where I will mount them in turn.

By: po

po — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:14:56 -0800

Art that even math majors can do! Seriously, though, these are pretty amazing. I was introduced to this art form last year by a friend, but hadn't seen anything besides her work (which is also very good) until now. Cool post!

By: greasepig

greasepig — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:21:32 -0800

Sparkleball

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:06:32 -0800

Reminds me of all the fun I used to have years ago with Kai's Power Tools FraxFlame plugin for photoshop.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:42:20 -0800

I remember playing with FractInt in the days of DOS, letting it run while I was away from the machine, doing other things. Even now, when the compy's on without something to occupy its spare cycles, I feel like it's slacking.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:03:14 -0800

These are absolutely beautiful. We have indeed come a long way since the days of Fractint and color-cycling the Mandelbrot set in your choice of rainbow gradients. (One of the coolest things you could with Fractint was render a deep iteration in segments, which led to the creation in 1992 of an ad hoc server farm in my high school's computer lab. Fifteen 286es all chugging away during lunch periods. It was glorious, man.)

By: telstar

telstar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:33:51 -0800

Wow, amazing graphs. I just changed to Linux from Windows, so I was disappointed to see that Apophysis is a Windows program. But then I found this Java port, which seems to run ok...I'll continue checking it out.

By: Anything

Anything — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:34:41 -0800

Have the police cracked down on raves so bad that they can't even mention dates and locations in their flyers anymore?

By: metaplectic

metaplectic — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:16:15 -0800

I was going to say these don't look much like fractals or flames, but apparently fractal flames are non-linear iterated function systems with modified coloring.

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:21:56 -0800

telstar: Apophysis runs in WINE, but the last time I tried the UI was too slow to use.

By: Freen

Freen — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:39:44 -0800

Fuck this noise. I want the ones that move. Someone please notify me immediately if you find this in motion.

By: nosila

nosila — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:53:49 -0800

damnit, greasepig. stealin' my thunder.

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:03:50 -0800

They don't all have to look like a 60's freakout, either. Apophysis, and the underlying Flam3 Algorithm are easily adaptable to live music setups too if you have the horsepower. All of the above were generated by linking midi parameters to Apophysis parameters [via max/msp and Jitter], jamming while previewing a low-res [64x64 pixels projected on my wall to about 40in diagonal], saving the nice looking moments with f12 and then rendering offline later.

By: jammer

jammer — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:46:59 -0800

telestar, try checking out the Qt-based and linux-native qosmic, which is based on the same library. (Mac users like myself can try Oxidizer.)

By: Harald74

Harald74 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:15:32 -0800

I found this soothing video of a Mandelbrot set zoom on YouTube, while investigating why fractal flames differ from "regular" fractals.

By: Lipstick Thespian

Lipstick Thespian — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:03:54 -0800

Awesome! I've even been to some of these places.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:57:00 -0800

There are also fractal cats.

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:29:44 -0800

Man, this stuff puts my own fractal flame to shame. I guess I should put getting flam3 into Debian/Ubuntu on my eternally growing todo list.