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My Fascination with Fractals

This is one of my favorite lenses. Ever since I found out that I can make fractals on my computer, I have been fascinated with them. Fractals are so beautiful. When you create them on a computer, their vibrant colors outmatch other artistic mediums. It's fascinating to see how they can be integrated into other digital art projects. If you have any ideas, or are creating fractal art, please share it in the guestbook.

Some of My Fractal Creations

You never know what you will find when you go fractal hunting!

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Fractal Theory

Chaos might be necessary for order to develop.
The greater the chaos, the greater the beauty.

There are 2 strange attractors that define a fractal. No one knows what the strange attractors are. Like God, they are hidden and we only see their effects.

From the TV show Jeremiah "Strange Attractors" (See it on Hulu.com)

Why Not Make Your Own Fractals?

Like kids, you learn best by doing.

I am far from being a fractal expert but they are fun to play with. Once you get past the feeling of "Where the heck do I even start?" You can quickly come up with some interesting pictures and they make great backgrounds or profile icons.

Fractals have a wonderful dept to them. In most pictures, magnifying them simply makes the picture look more pixelated. In a fractal, the more you zoom in, the more there is to see. As you explore different parts of the image, you can find beautiful hidden pictures. You are limited only by your imagination as to how you use them.

If you have a basic understanding of a paint program, you can copy, cut, rotate or otherwise change your fractal into a true work of art. They make great background pictures (wallpapers) for your computer or even greeting cards and posters. I used one for the background on my Twitter page.

Exploring Fractals by Video

See what I mean by zooming in and seeing a repetative pattern.

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Fractal Programs and How To Tips and User's Guides

Free programs to get your creative juices flowing!

Time being what it is, I have only used Fractal Explorer. I don't know if it is the best program but I found a tutorial that helped me get going with it. If you want to play with Fractals, you are going to have to turn on that quality of wonder you had as a child. You know,"I wonder what this does" or "What happens if I do that". Many of the most extraordinary fractal pictures come about by "accident".

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Fractal Explorer Users Group (FEUsers) Tutorials

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Fractal Explorer

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FRACTINT distribution

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Fractint Tutorial

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ChaosPro - Freeware fractal generator - Welcome

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Fractal Collections

I'm starting with a few good sites. If you have a good suggestion, please add it to the list. There are a lot of good fractal collections out there. Must be people are having fun making them!

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Fractal Graphics Art Posters

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Sprott's Fractal Gallery

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Fractals - Fractal Recursions

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Fractal World Gallery Thumbnails : cosmic recursive fractal flames ...

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Frack Attack: Home: Zazzle.com Store

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PsyborgAli's Zazzle Store - Fractal Art Section

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My Digital Kaleidoscope -> Fractals

This has become such a fun lens for me. I know that few of us will actually take time to learn how to make fractals. When I was a child, I had a toy called a kaleidoscope. It consisted of a paper tube with a mirror in it and glass crystals in a transparent chamber on the bottom. As you looked into the tube and rotated it, the crystals would slide around making ever changing patterns. The mirror reflected them so that they looked like a complete pattern.

I call this image The Crystal Butterfly. It looks like something that you would see in a kaleidoscope but it was made with Fractal Explorer.

The Beauty of Kaleidoscopes for Adults

Rekindle the good feelings of childhood.

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Mandelbrot Fractals were Discovered in 1980

If you really want to know more about fractals, you will like this video. It explains it in ways I haven't heard before. Enjoy!


Fractals, The Colors Of Infinity Part 1
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