I love fractals they are both scientific and beautiful at the same time!
For those of you that don’t know what Fractals are Mandelbrot the king of fractals defined them as this:
“a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced/size copy of the whole”
Sven Geier has created some excellent fractal based artwork which he has put up on his site Fractal Bargin Bin and is encouraging people to do what they want with them!
I have used one of the fractals for the headers background texture on my Peteamania blog.
If you have a decent quality colour printer why not try printing some of them off and framing them, they make excellent retro-futuristic artwork. Then next time someone is coming round your house make sure your sitting in a chair listening to prog-rock and staring at your framed fractal. When they come in tell your visitor “oh you just caught me expanding my mind”, this is guaranteed to get you noticed as a intellectual and eccentric gentleman.
// Pete Graham
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I actually have a framed fractal print which Simon gave to me for my 15th birthday. Believe it or not fractals were so popular back then there was actually a fractal shop on New Oxford Street. I still have the print but my interest in prog rock has dwindled…
Posted 16 Jan 2007 at 10:31 am ¶I actually have a beard and often stroke it while stimulating my cranium with my framed fractal collection. I am enamored with their eccentric beauty and wish to one day create the best fractals EVER.
i am a true intellectual and eccentric gentleman and you don’t even know the underlying meaning of fractals!
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 4:33 pm ¶Hi Pete. Just wanted to say thank you for the great images. I’m a secondary maths teacher and I will be using them to adorn my classroom to inspire my pupils and convince them of the beauty of maths!
Jane
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 9:08 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
[...] One of the Fractals is pictured above, they have been created by Melissa D. Binde and her website is fractality.com. Heres a link to my last post about fractals. [...]
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