Welcome to Fractal Forums

Hello all,

I'm so very glad to be a part of FractalForums.com; I've been visiting this site for quite some time and finally felt ready.

Really brief: I'm a fine artist living in Boise, Idaho and I focus on fractal geometry and chaos theory as overriding inspirations for my work. I poured over The Fractal Geometry of Nature as a young teen and have never ceased my quest into the most intoxicating (in my opinion) of studies.

I look forward to discussing fractals with you and hopefully I can bring a positive perspective to the forums.

Thank you,

Cody


codyruttyart.com is my art site; if you are into painting, take a gander.

Welcome to Fractal Forums, Cody!

I like your paintings. The fractal influence is clear, for example, in ReallySmallChalkboards (http://codyruttyart.com/codyruttyart.com/reallysmallchalkboards.html).

Using chaos as inspiration for traditional paintings is a cool idea. You might also be interested in the reverse approach: employing handmade paintings as the basis for computer generated fractal art. Samuel Monnier's fractal Mondrian works (http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net/blog/blog.php?Post=20110201) come to mind.

I very much hope you find your time here enjoyable and productive.

Ken

Thank you Ken for the warm welcome and link.

The reverse approach that you mention is precisely what drives me; however I am neither a programmer (yet) or have but the most abstract understanding of how to achieve this. I spend my days painting and thinking of how to generate fractals from fine-art visuals, to bring them into the complex plane, to iterate them... etc.. I must learn how to program, but where to start?

Thanks again.

Cody, perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comments, but you definitely don't need to be a programmer to have your computer generate fractals. There's a lot of software out there already. Sam Monnier probably used Ultra Fractal (http://www.ultrafractal.com/) to make his fractal Mondrians. A very popular choice is Mandelbulb3d, which is absolutely free and may be downloaded here (http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=26).

Ken

I like the work on your site very much.  I too am a painter, but a somewhat more traditional landscape painter.  While painting the negative spaces in the tree line I thought to myself that these space are not random.  There is a pattern here that I don't fully understand.  That was when a math nut friend of mine told me about fractals.  The subject was new to me but very fascinating.  My interest is somewhat specific.  I am trying to understand how fractals work in natural patterns formally thought to be just chaos.  How will a knowledge of these patterns and mathematics help my artwork?  I am not looking to make super realistic paintings, but to look at how the creation is not random chaos but there are patterns and structure to what we see. 

Any thoughts?

here is my site if you want to see where I am coming from.  www.tfloraditch.com

Thanks!