Noble Fractal Oscar 2012

[M Benesi]

I've been feeling a bit humorous recently.  Generally try to reign it in a bit, maintain a dignified air, pretend to be more knowledgeable and wise than I actually am.   And sometimes the chaos monkeys run amok.

[LMarkoya]

Without first acknowledging the programmers who gave the artists tools, the prize would be somewhat meaningless. To not acknowledge those who made the artform possible would be criminal. Take them away and it would be like an artist with no paint or brushes. While we concentrate on 3D versions here it would be heresy to ignore UF, Apophysis, FE and many more as possible winners...the users of all the programs (Few would be actually called artists) can show the potential of the code, and then add their own aesthetics, but without the programs, perhaps we'd all be fingerpainting

[Tabasco Raremaster]

Áll you programmers,spaghetti-coders,inventors,mathemagician ánd artists are Super Heros to me.

I go with Sockratease , the universe is in this case Nobel self , although it's BANG was a bit BIGGER.

And to David Makin's list I would like to add; 3. Gaston Julia

[Alef]

I expected that admin would give prise to himself But result seems obvious.

[Alef]

IMHO ultimate fractal challenge would be not a grail themself, but an entering pediwikia wikipedia. Beyond mandelbrot set there are articles about burning ship, tricorn, newton, nova, buddhabrot, mandelbulb, mandelbox.