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Do check out the zoom-ins and backgrounds for a more adequate view of fascinating self-similarity patterns in the fractals.

If you want to know more about fractals, you can check out this website.

If you want to know more about what fractal art is, read the manifesto by Kerry Mitchell.

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Mandelbrot: Funky Alien.
Title: Funky AlienDate: 7/29/2003

This is the first fractal artwork I made using UF3. It kind of looks like an album cover. It's a sunglasses-wearing extra-terrestrial. The body (actually just a head and legs) is a Mandelbrot-form Nova fractal to which the orbit traps outside coloring algorithm has been applied. The afro is a Magnet Mandelbrot. The background, made from Newton fractals, hoped to simulate the psychedelic animations of abstract wavy ribbons that you sometimes see in old funk music videos and tv shows. An iteration-based orbit traps outside coloring algorithm using wave trap shapes worked well. The jagged edges of the alien's feet could be cleats, or perhaps the worn-out cuffs of bellbottom jeans.

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- W.Wu, 7/29/2003 4:55PM

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Julia: Supersession.
Title: Supersession Date: 7/31/2003

My original intention with this piece was to imitate what I think is "traditional-looking" fractal art, by superimposing several differently colored snapshots of a spiral-like fractal. However, I ended up deciding that my first layer looked good enough to stand alone. It's a Julia fractal. The spiraling bright white beam contrasts nicely with the dark, stone-like geography that curls around it.

- W.Wu, 7/31/2003 10:36PM

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Mandelbrot: Blue Rose.
Title: Blue Rose Date: 8/3/2003 6:41PM

After playing with a Mandelbrot fractal for a while, I discovered the rough outline of a stem and flower pattern, motivating me to make the above. Amusingly, I almost abandoned this piece after I showed Mom this intermediate image, and she said that it looked not like a vased rose, but rather, female genitalia =P

Self-similarity patterns: The blue petal head has grooves which whirlpool infinitely into two vertigo-like drains. The leaves also have interesting patterns. Check out these zoom-ins to see four-leaf groups growing inside four-leaf groups, ad infinitum.

Blue roses do not naturally exist. They can only be bred artifically, by cultivating white rose buds in a blue pigment that eventually permeates the petals. Consequently, I feel that the blue rose makes a good symbol for fractal art, which mixes human creativity with mathematical structures that seem directly taken from nature.

- W.Wu, 8/3/2003 7:59PM

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