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fractal art

Fractals

Since there was a lot of interest in the above article I decided to quote another article which is about Fractal Art or (the use of Fractal mathematical computations and repetitions big and small in art.)

fractal art

Fractal art

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The interior side view of the main dome of Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, which contains some self-similar patterns
A piece generated in Apophysis
A detail from a non-integer Multibrot set
A Fibonacci word fractal
Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards.[1] It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art. The Julia set and Mandelbrot sets can be considered as icons of fractal art.[2]
Fractal art (especially in the western world) is not drawn or painted by hand. It is usually created indirectly with the assistance of fractal-generating software, iterating through three phases: setting parameters of appropriate fractal software; executing the possibly lengthy calculation; and evaluating the product. In some cases, other graphics programs are used to further modify the images produced. This is called post-processing. Non-fractal imagery may also be integrated into the artwork.[3]
It was assumed that Fractal art could not have developed without computers because of the calculative capabilities they provide.[4] Fractals are generated by applying iterative methods to solving non-linear equations or polynomial equations. Fractals are any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size.[5]

Types

A 3D Mandelbulb fractal generated using Visions of Chaos
There are many different kinds of fractal images and can be subdivided into several groups.
Fractal expressionism is a term used to differentiate traditional visual art that incorporates fractal elements such as self-similarity for example. Perhaps the best example of fractal expressionism is found in Jackson Pollock's dripped patterns. They have been analysed and found to contain a fractal dimension which has been attributed to his technique.[8]

Techniques

Fractal image generated by Electric Sheep
A fractal image made with Sterling
Fractals of all kinds have been used as the basis for digital art and animation. High resolution color graphics became increasingly available at scientific research labs in the mid-1980s. Scientific forms of art, including fractal art, have developed separately from mainstream culture.[9] Starting with 2-dimensional details of fractals, such as the Mandelbrot Set, fractals have found artistic application in fields as varied as texture generation, plant growth simulation and landscape generation.
Fractals are sometimes combined with human-assisted evolutionary algorithms, either by iteratively choosing good-looking specimens in a set of random variations of a fractal artwork and producing new variations, to avoid dealing with cumbersome or unpredictable parameters, or collectively, as in the Electric Sheep project, where people use fractal flames rendered with distributed computing as their screensaver and "rate" the flame they are viewing, influencing the server, which reduces the traits of the undesirables, and increases those of the desirables to produce a computer-generated, community-created piece of art.
Many fractal images are admired because of their perceived harmony. This is typically achieved by the patterns which emerge from the balance of order and chaos. Similar qualities have been described in Chinese painting and miniature trees and rockeries.[10]
Fractal rendering programs used to make fractal art include Ultra Fractal, Apophysis, Bryce and Sterling. Fractint was the first widely used fractal generating program.[citation needed]

Landscapes

A 3D landscape generated with Terragen
Main article: Fractal landscape
The first fractal image that was intended to be a work of art was probably the famous one on the cover of Scientific American, August 1985. This image showed a landscape formed from the potential function on the domain outside the (usual) Mandelbrot set. However, as the potential function grows fast near the boundary of the Mandelbrot set, it was necessary for the creator to let the landscape grow downwards, so that it looked as if the Mandelbrot set was a plateau atop a mountain with steep sides. The same technique was used a year after in some images in The Beauty of Fractals by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Michael M. Richter.
In this book you can find a formula to estimate the distance from a point outside the Mandelbrot set to the boundary of the Mandelbrot set (and a similar formula for the Julia sets), and one can wonder why the creator did not use this function instead of the potential function, because it grows in a more natural way (see the formula in the articles Mandelbrot set and Julia set).
The three pictures show landscapes formed from the distance function for a family of iterations of the form z^{2} + az^{4} + c. If, in a light from the sun. Then we imagine the rays are parallel (and given by two angles), and we let the colour of a point on the surface be determined by the angle between this direction and the slope of the surface at the point. The intensity (on the earth) is independent of the distance, but the light grows whiter because of the atmosphere, and sometimes the ground looks as if it is enveloped in a veil of mist (second picture). We can also let the light be "artificial", as if it issues from a lantern held by the observer. In this case the colour must grow darker with the distance (third picture).

Artists

The British artist William Latham, has used fractal geometry and other computer graphics techniques in his works.[11] Greg Sams has used fractal designs in postcards, t-shirts and textiles. American Vicky Brago-Mitchell has created fractal art which has appeared in exhibitions and on magazine covers. Scott Draves is credited with inventing flame fractals. Carlos Ginzburg has explored fractal art and developed a concept called "homo fractalus" which is based around the idea that the human is the ultimate fractal.[12] Merrin Parkers from New Zealand specialises in fractal art.[13]

Exhibits

Fractal art has been exhibited at major international art galleries.[14] One of the first exhibitions of fractal art was "Map Art", a travelling exhibition of works from researchers at the University of Bremen.[15] Mathematicians Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Michael M. Richter discovered that the public not only found the images aesthetically pleasing but that they also wanted to understand the scientific background to the images.[16]
In 1989, fractals were part of the subject matter for an art show called Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.[9] The show consisted of photographs, installations and sculptures designed to provide greater scientific discourse to the field which had already captured the public's attention through colourful and intricate computer imagery.

See also

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References

  1. Bovill, Carl (1996). Fractal geometry in architecture and design. Boston: Birkhauser. p. 153. ISBN 0-8176-3795-8. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  2. Burger, Edward B.; Michael P. Starbird (2005). The heart of mathematics: an invitation to effective thinking. Springer. p. 475. ISBN 1-931914-41-9. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  3. Elysia Conner (February 25, 2009). "Meet Reginald Atkins, mathematical artist". CasperJournal.com. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
  4. Steven R., Holtzman (1995). Digital Mantras: The languages of abstract and virtual worlds. MIT Press. p. 241. ISBN 0-262-58143-4. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  5. Fractal - Definition. Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
  6. Quaternion Julia Fractals
  7. Fractal Art FAQ
  8. Érdi, Péter (2008). Complexity explained. Springer. p. 214. ISBN 3-540-35777-7. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  9. Penny, Simon (1995). Critical issues in electronic media. State University of New York Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-7914-2317-4. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  10. Wang, Hongyu (2005). "Chinese aesthetics, Fractals and the Tao of Curriculum". In Doll, Jr, William E.; Fleener, Jayne; Trueit, Donna et al. Chaos, complexity, curriculum and culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-8204-6780-1. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  11. Briggs, John (1992). Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 169. ISBN 0-500-27693-5.
  12. "Carlos Ginzburg". Leonardo. International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. 2001. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  13. Jackson, William Joseph (2004). Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities, Volume 1. Indiana University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-253-21620-6. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  14. Barrow, John D. (1995). The artful universe expanded. Oxford University Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-19-280569-X. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  15. Robertson, George (1996). FutureNatural. London: Routledge. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-415-07013-9. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  16. Richard Wright. "Art and Science in Chaos: Contesting Readings of Scientific Visualisation". ISEA'94 Proceedings - The Next Generation. University of Iowa. Retrieved 28 October 2011.

Further reading

  • Pickover, Clifford. Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty. ISBN 0-486-41709-3.
  • Schroeder, Manfred. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws. ISBN 0-7167-2357-3.
  • Michelitsch, Michael; Rössler, Otto E. The "Burning Ship" and Its Quasi-Julia Sets, Computers & Graphics Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 435–438, 1992.
  • Michelitsch, Michael; Rössler, Otto E. "A New Feature in Hénon's Map." Computers & Graphics Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 263––265, 1989.
  • Wondering angels of Fractal arts

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