Posts Tagged inspiration

What happened to the plain old Mandelbrot?

Jun 28

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Still somehow inspired by the previous post about the misunderstanding of what a fractal is and the wrong use of the word fractal and some stuff I read at Orbit Trap, I remembered another thing that bothers me (here comes another long rant).

Also while checking for Google links, I noticed that a lot of the current examples of fractals seem to be now related to Apophysis and its own kind of fractal, the “flame” fractals. OK, they are still fractals, but what happened to the “classic” images of Mandelbrots and Julias (or Newtons or IFs, and so many others)?

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Tags: Apophysis, art, artists, computers, digital art, fractal softwares, fractals, Fractint, Google, image, inspiration, Photoshop, rant, Ultra Fractal

Fractal Gallery 09

Jun 26

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A very interesting batch this time.

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About the “Pornography 2″ image: it doesn’t have anything to do with actual pornography neither it’s a catch to attract visitors. It was named like that because of this:

The Cure's Pornography cover art, 1982

Hopefully you can get the similarities. You’ll find a bunch of other images that are related to song titles, album names, bands, etc. I’ll be explaining some.

When editing the tags of the galleries almost a year later, I noticed that this gallery also has an image named after a Cure album, “Faith”. It was also inspired by the cover art of this album, which is a pic of Bolton Abbey.

Tags: Apophysis, Apophysis spiral, Baghdad, Bela Lugosi, Bolton Abbey, brown, deep zoom, faith, fossile, gallery, image, image names, inspiration, laughs, maestro, Mandelbrot, midget, minibrot, orbit traps, pornography, The Cure, Ultra Fractal

Do you make 50 images every day? How can you post so many images?

Jun 24

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Not anymore. There was a time that I probably could do that, though.

If I post say 3 or 4 galleries with around 15 images each in the same day it’s just because these images I’m posting were already made, ready to be posted, some are even 10 years old or maybe more. I’m in sort of an updating phase more than a creation phase, I’m just sorting things out and cleaning the dust before I’m back to making new images.

These images aren’t all fresh creations, not all of them at least. In each gallery probably there will be one or 2 relatively newer images (not often though), but all these weren’t done at once right before I published the post.