Title: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: Duncan C on September 24, 2014, 03:09:59 AM Sterling Publishing, based in New York City, just released a new book called Fractal 3D Magic. The forward was written by Clifford Pickover, a well known American Science writer.
The book is a collection of red/cyan anaglyph images of different types of 3D fractals. It's mostly Mandelbrot and Julia set height maps, 3D flames, and what appears to be a fair number of Mandelbulbs, plus a fair number of Menger Sponge type images. The Mandelbrot and Julia set images are mostly my work using my program, FractalWorks. There are also a number of images by another fractal artist named Fernando Vallejo, who uses FractalWorks along with various post-processing and compositing techniques. I met Fernando on Flikr several years ago. He used to be active in the FractalWorks forum I set up there. I don't know the other 2 artists in the book, Aleksey Ospenkov and S. Rathinagiri. Anaglyphs don't really do the images justice, but its a decent way to deliver 3D fractal images to the public. I'm very happy to see my work in print. I hope the book is successful. It looks like it's available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-3D-Magic-Clifford-Pickover/dp/1454912634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411520925&sr=8-1&keywords=fractal+3d+magic (http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-3D-Magic-Clifford-Pickover/dp/1454912634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411520925&sr=8-1&keywords=fractal+3d+magic) Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: Alef on September 24, 2014, 06:08:52 PM Quote I don't know the other 2 artists in the book, Aleksey Ospenkov and S. Rathinagiri. The last one sounds ashttp://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-(rate-my-fractal)/my-3d-stereo-fractals/ (http://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-(rate-my-fractal)/my-3d-stereo-fractals/) Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: thargor6 on September 25, 2014, 11:59:25 PM Right, I also remember this name, this is the guy who suggested to include 3D-stereo-rendering into JWildfire :-) (I think they are not covered in the book yet, as this is was that much in the past)
Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: Rathinagiri on October 04, 2014, 05:02:08 PM Hi, I am S. Rathinagiri as mentioned in that book. :)
Thank you Andreas for remembering me. The images published in that book were mostly created using Apophysis and Mandelbulb3D in the past. Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: TheRedshiftRider on October 04, 2014, 05:19:01 PM Thanks for the information. I really like the way Pickover writes about surtain subjects. The best is that this one is about fractals.
Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: Duncan C on November 01, 2014, 10:36:39 PM Thanks for the information. I really like the way Pickover writes about surtain subjects. The best is that this one is about fractals. I was actually kind of disappointed in the commentary. Pickover wrote very little. It reads like it was mostly written by the editors at the publisher, who don't have a very deep knowledge of the subject. I'd call it a coffee table art book. Title: Re: New book "Fractal 3D Magic" Post by: TheRedshiftRider on November 03, 2014, 10:50:43 AM I was actually kind of disappointed in the commentary. Pickover wrote very little. It reads like it was mostly written by the editors at the publisher, who don't have a very deep knowledge of the subject. Thats true, not as much information as in his other books.I'd call it a coffee table art book. |