I'd like to see more Fractal Libraries out there...

[cosmicbrat]

First off..  everyone interested in this emerging new Art-form should go to "Google Alerts", and create an alert for "fractal", so you will get every new fractal web-page as it comes out on the Net...

I found many Fractal web sites which are so state of the art, that some of makes me have to sit back in my chair, like if it wasn't there I'd probably fall on me bum...

Here's the deal..  just add those web site links, that wow you, to this thread...  Make it like a "library of Fractal Art"... 


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Check these out: (maybe you've already seen them, maybe not..?  Who knows, maybe you created them...)


http://www.dennis.ca/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/love_1024x640.jpg

http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2006/winners.php

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdzeni/1274058529/in/photostream/

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-168889-1.html

http://fractal.sphosting.com/gallery1.html

http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=44772

Here are a few artists who are big into mandalas and kaleidoscopes...
Many of them illustrate extreme depth... as in "riding" some of their works and themes is like a roller-coaster ride into cosmic thought processing...  Have an eye-pardy in this web site...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kaleidoscope_eyes/pool/

This computer art goes into the category of "a keen marriage of Ancient and ultra modern classic"... There's some Amazing stuff in this new territory artist's prime work...   http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdzeni/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/perlssdj/sets/72157602970202429/

This one is "wick-ed", and fantastic!..  This Artist is obviously cutting edge, as cutting edge as it gets...  This guy could tell you a story that could melt your brain...    http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/

A twist on fractal art...  Maybe it's "a hole in the universe" theme...
And if that's what it is, then it's probably "heaven's gate"...
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/abyssalblog/2007-10-27fggggggggggggg.png
http://abyssalleviathin.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/fractal-wallpapers-third-iteration/

3600 fractal pix...    http://www.flickr.com/groups/thailandgraffiti/

Seems someone is opening a new door..?     http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/3148

Some of the best fractals yet... I'd label their over all theme "Love, Birth, Life"... Someone probably put their whole-spirit into creating these prime works of spiritual Art...    http://www.cafepress.com/evidently/1791712

https://www.serif.com/community/gallery/001-100/027.asp

Computer Art.. blending fractals with water... Almost "breath taking"...   http://www.flickr.com/photos/htmlnerd/sets/620333/

http://www.picsearch.com/

http://www.inborndesign.com/nechlei/blog/?p=95#more-95

http://www.dennis.ca/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3799&g2_page=2

It seems someone has created a good start for making fire in images... I hopes they gets it to add it to a photo editor software...
http://gazdemo.ygingras.net/wiki/Fract+gallery+1

This guy is the Cutting Edge of fractal art, an maybe even the cutting edge of human intellect as-well...   http://fractalforest.wordpress.com/category/fractal-art/


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Using these lovely Google Alerts, I've found websites offering new Fractal Softwares...


http://students.washington.edu/bitsed/qosmic/

http://www.sofotex.com/Visual-Fractal-download_L70345.html


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I found some good instruction out there...


http://learn-photography-online.blogspot.com/2007/10/emotive-photograph.html

https://www.serif.com/community/tutorials/index.asp

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This successful Russian Photographer says "click your camera, and toss it into the air spinning while it's taking the picture"...
I can see how it could give you some rare shots, but should it hit something hard, it's game-over for the camera...

I would set a thick soft puffed-up feather sleeping-bag to catch it if you miss.. or I just wouldn't try this trick.. It's just too dangerous.. and cameras are just too expensive... Maybe the best thing be to do it with an old junk camera... Or you hold the camera, and jump off of something while taking the pix... Or you could attach the camera to a string on the end of a stick, and gently spin the camera in the air while its taking the pix.. that way it can't get dropped and wrecked... but if it hits the stick when you are slowing its spin, that could damage it, so pad the stick with thick padding where the camera can touch the stick... Or just set the camera on a string suspended from something, and click it, then give it a quick spin near the Xmas tree... This last one is the safest, and should prove interesting...
http://www.photocritic.org/category/art-projects/

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http://www.techzilo.com/gimp-plugins/

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnofract4d/?branch_id=3430&release_id=270084

http://gimpandphotoshop.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-fractal-design-in-gimp/0/

http://www.coolosxapps.net/2008/02/02/oxidizer-free-os-x-fractal-flame-generator/

http://www.fractalfoundation.org/xaos.shtm


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Tip for easier use of the PC...


Speed-up your keyboard keying...

Those antique keyboards with their high raised keys is what is slowing your keying down a lot... Using one of those antique crap keyboards is like filling your pockets with lead to run a race... Those old style keyboards force you to raise your typing fingers way-up above the keys, while low format keys avoid that extra work in keying... You simply slide your fingers across the keys, avoiding part of the process... You can nearly double your keying speed with a low profile keyboard...

Checkout the "NexXTech illumFX Keyboard, model 2618708"... Try one in a store, and be amazed...

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While playing with "Ultra Fractal" software for the first time, I used the little bulls-eyes to distort one of the existing samples, and saw the fractal change from a lizard, to a gorilla, to a man standing...  all happened in a couple seconds..  same as how I saw a river's wavelets birth, live, and die, cosmic-characters, all in just two-seconds...   Could it be that "fractals" contain that much Life..?   Yikers!..

[lycium]

ello, welcome to the forum

state of the art

how do you define the state of the art / cutting edge of fractal art?

personally i'm not overly optimistic about the rate of progress in this field; at least xenodream is no longer a sitting duck and amateurs like david makin are really raising the bar, but overall there seems to be extremely little innovation: mostly xenodream, apo, ultrafractal, and then lots of people making mandelbrots.

[cosmicbrat]

ello, welcome to the forum

state of the art

how do you define the state of the art / cutting edge of fractal art?

personally i'm not overly optimistic about the rate of progress in this field; at least xenodream is no longer a sitting duck and amateurs like david makin are really raising the bar, but overall there seems to be extremely little innovation: mostly xenodream, apo, ultrafractal, and then lots of people making mandelbrots.

Sounds like you are too impatient...  so impatient that you fail to acknowledge, and enjoy, the progressive steps and the climbs others are making in this platform art form...  Almost seems you believe you were born into it, and that you've built a bit of a gold plated pedestal under yourself...  You know you are good, I know you are good, a million people know you are good..  but don't let it go to your head too much...  look what that did to britany...

It's never good enough for you...  You see what isn't there...  Do you want to see "cutting edge"..?   Look in the mirror...

Persist in seeing failure in everything not yours, and all you will ever see where ever you go, is failure...  That's dangerous..  in that it could be grounds for self-destruction...

[lycium]

Sounds like you are too impatient...  so impatient that you fail to acknowledge, and enjoy, the progressive steps and the climbs others are making in this platform art form...  Almost seems you believe you were born into it, and that you've built a bit of a gold plated pedestal under yourself...

ehhh?

You know you are good

euhm, actually i regard myself as a poor fractal artist. my primary skill is writing 3d renderers, not making pretty pictures.

please don't put words in my mouth

but don't let it go to your head too much...  look what that did to britany...

where's this animosity coming from? did i attack you?

It's never good enough for you...  You see what isn't there...  Do you want to see "cutting edge"..?   Look in the mirror...

Persist in seeing failure in everything not yours, and all you will ever see where ever you go, is failure...  That's dangerous..  in that it could be grounds for self-destruction...

thanks for that.

[cosmicbrat]

Oop!..  I did a response, but I failed to save it on the desktop... 

Sorry...


Ummm..?  Seems my post didn't get posted..?  I forgot what I posted...


Anyway I guess I just like fractal art the way it's going...

[Fractal_Artist]

Here's a mutha of a fractal gallery.  Mine

Please visit my fractal catalog at www.allfractup.com  Once you are there you can browse through my three main galleries: General Use, Cross Stitch Patterns, and Posters.  So far I have created some 90,000+ fractals.  That does not include the 4 to 5 hours worth of HD Fractal Animations.

Bruce Berryhill
Fractal Artist and Fractal Animator

[teamfresh]

just read this thread today - it put a smile on my face thats for sure.....!

[ker2x]

Sounds like you are too impatient...  so impatient that you fail to acknowledge, and enjoy, the progressive steps and the climbs others are making in this platform art form...  Almost seems you believe you were born into it, and that you've built a bit of a gold plated pedestal under yourself...  You know you are good, I know you are good, a million people know you are good..  but don't let it go to your head too much...  look what that did to britany...

It's never good enough for you...  You see what isn't there...  Do you want to see "cutting edge"..?   Look in the mirror...

Persist in seeing failure in everything not yours, and all you will ever see where ever you go, is failure...  That's dangerous..  in that it could be grounds for self-destruction...

WTF are you talking about ?
He asked : "what is cutting-edge ?" "what is the state of the art of fractal ?"

[ker2x]

personally i'm not overly optimistic about the rate of progress in this field; at least xenodream is no longer a sitting duck and amateurs like david makin are really raising the bar, but overall there seems to be extremely little innovation: mostly xenodream, apo, ultrafractal, and then lots of people making mandelbrots.

I strongly disagree 
I think innovation is just slow because it's harder and harder to innovate on this relatively old topic :
Think about the radio, it's more than a century old and there is is still innovation on it, but the innovations are not as obvious and easy to spot as... let's say... innovation in robotics, computer graphics, biotechnology, ...

But i think we'll see new stuff with the increasing power of GPGPU and other easily programable massively multicore chips.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger !

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oGECJP3phyY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/oGECJP3phyY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[lycium]

that's true ker2x, the processing power available in gpus has shaken things up a lot (a so-called "disruptive technology"!) and is making things quite interesting again that's of course from a purely technical viewpoint, enabling real time exploration of our old favourite fractals.

on the other hand, the new kaleidoscopic ifs fractals are a really exciting development - finally we have a new family of very compelling 3d fractals to explore! at some stage i would love to integrate this into my day-job, rendering them to very high physical precision with indigo renderer, quite possibly with gpu acceleration  

[Thunderwave]

You know what I like about this thread?
Someone with so much passion about anything.
I rarely see that.  My good friend, Richard is also one of those passionate people about science, music and experimentation.

I don't think it matters about innovation, if you have enough passion innovation may take its course.

Seriously, though,  We are in an age where innovation is everywhere and so fast that for it to go any faster and to be more innovative, we might explode! (well not literally)  But it's like the renaissance period where views are changing so rapidly that some people are checking out of it all and refusing to "see the light".  The new perceptions of Science just overwhelm the general folks.  I was talking to people about the concept of time (See Attachment) and they all just laughed at me and couldn't see it.
But time could just be one infinite fractal of a different perception where it is one mathematical time point with infinite depth.  From one perception it is all happening now, from another it may never even have happened.  In reality who cares!  It's your perception, so make it real to you and love it passionately like this poster does.