MetaFilter posts tagged with fractal and fractals

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.

Mandelbrot on Fractals as A Theory of Roughness.

MetaMonkey — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:32:37 -0800

A talk with Benoît Mandelbrot, entitled Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) [video, 80mins, realplayer] about fractals as A Theory of Roughness.

Fractal Bacteria

Gator — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:20:27 -0800

These images remind us never to underestimate our opponent. -- The science behind the art (.pdf). Fractal art by way of bacteria growin' in a petri dish. A few more images here.

MARGE! You're soaking in it!

loquacious — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 03:34:37 -0800

Fractal animation videos. Tune in. Turn on. Drop in on a dripping skirling-swirling pulsating orgy of self-transforming recursive math. Some with fractal music. (Non-embedded mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 files, like God intended.)

Buddhabrot

homunculus — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:07:16 -0800

The Buddhabrot Set is a re-visualization of the Mandelbrot Set, created with a rendering technique invented by Melinda Green, who further extended it to create the Buddhagram. [Via MonkeyFilter.]