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Art is not religion. I don't look at these
pictures and see some mystical fusion of man's inner
and outer nature. I don't make art to find peace
or oneness with the universe. These are just
pictures I made that I like. Most of these
pictures are "classic" Julias and Mandelbrots, but
a few represent my explorations into more exotic
types like magnetic and alternate-power Julias,
and
Paul Derbyshire's new Nova fractals.
This fractal collection has gone through several
changes. I won't bore you with the details, but
due to space restrictions the images here are only
320x240, and they're saved as JPEGs. I know JPEG
really mangles fractals, but in this case the
savings in space (>50%) were well worth it.
It freed up over a megabyte of storage - 20% of our
total allowance - and we needed that space for some
other expansion of this site.
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As a general rule, the fractal images themselves
were created with
FractInt. If you use FractInt, you
can download the parameters
used to create the images and generate them at
any size. I actually keep 1024x768 images in my
collection, rather than the 320x240 images shown
here. The .PAR file linked to above also contains
parameters for the eight pictures I removed to
make room for the new ones.
Some of the images have been post-processed
with Picture
Publisher 6.0. I know some "purists" would
consider this heresy, but as noted above, I don't
mix religion and fractals, so heresy doesn't apply.
For what it's worth, all the post-processing is
algorithmic and is applied to the entire image.
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| Most of these pictures were generated on a lowly 486/66, but recently I upgraded to a Cyrix 6x86 P150+ CPU, which has made deepzooming only slightly more tolerable. What I really want is to generate fractals on an SGI or something... |
| Although these pictures started out as 1024x768, 256-color images, they have been reduced in size and stored as 24-bit JPEGs. (This isn't actually as wasteful as it sounds.) If you are using a display mode with only 256 colors, your browser will probably dither these images to fit into its own 256-color palette. Such is life. For best results, download the .PAR file and generate the images yourself in FractInt at a respectable size, preferably 1024x768 or higher, and display them full-screen. This makes for much nicer pictures than the tiny 320x240 images I have here. |
