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Fractal Art: Complex and Beautiful Color Inspiration

colourlovers.com — Even though I hate math… I love what can be created using geometric patterns. While there seems to be many different styles of art that fit under the umbrella name of a Fractal, what I found when I went looking for more information about them was a treasure trove of amazing art.

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  • goldvein, on 08/30/2008, -1/+22check out www.electricsheep.org This is an ever changing, always developing, screen saver that shows fractals of all shapes and sizes. There are some absolutely amazing ones out there. It runs like an organism that is always evolving. It also changes the fractals based on your thumbs up or thumbs down by rating each fractal with a simple press of the arrow up or down keys. Gotta check it out!
  • Harabeck, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11Tons and tons of fractal art:

    http://www.deviantart.com/#catpath=digitalart/frac ...
  • Nouman6, on 08/30/2008, -1/+10I was looking for a new wallpaper today too :)
    Great collection.
  • mshiplet, on 08/30/2008, -4/+11Dugg because it was on the front page and not from huffingtonpost.com
  • Janv1er, on 08/30/2008, -1/+8Need LSD
  • inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Boobies? Dugg.
  • THETEH, on 08/30/2008, -1/+5Yeah, those are pretty sweet.

    Let's just hope the people who make "Sporn" don't find out about Fractals, or we'll be seeing fractal porn (Frorn?) all over the place next.
  • LucasVB, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Nice collection! Dugg.

    Also: "I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate." - David Mumford
  • Iwantawii, on 08/30/2008, -2/+5Dugg solely for the "Fractals in Nature" bit in the article. We really are living in a fractal universe, there is evidence of that all around us from atoms to planets and beyond. There's also a ton of info and advocates to be found among the tubez.
  • EllipsisAeon, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4Very nice! The freeware application for making these seems to be fairly quick/easy to play with...dugg 'cause it's purty
  • PsychoDesigns, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3I thought I'd add mine
    http://psycho-designs.com/digitalart/dragon.html
    http://psycho-designs.com/digitalart/spines.html
    http://psycho-designs.com/digitalart/spring.html
  • grungegbunny, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Fractals rock. You can zoom into some near infinite and never see the same thing twice all powered by mathematics. I like Tierazon its a simple easy to use (and free) fractal program.
  • foxxtrot23, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Fractals is my favourite.
  • mrjhmm, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2http://www.electricsheep.org/
  • WHOOMP, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2When you visualize similar patterns while on acid is your mind performing similar mathematical processes?
  • Onji, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2http://www.electricsheep.org/

    A link for the lazy people.
  • inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Apophysised.
  • DifferentColors, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2i could go for some toast right about now
  • FUR10N, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2I love the fractal brushes. That way a noob like me can make something look kinda good in photoshop
  • noahgelman, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2I thought it said "Facial Art" and my mind went down hill from there...
  • theadvinci, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Beautiful.
  • scisam, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1I made a few of those, they are not screensaver screenshots, but thanks for playing
  • cardshark69, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2toast?
  • Duggy, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1http://j0hnh0li0.deviantart.com/art/then-some-fell ...
  • phuzzy3d, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Umm never mind, maybe I'm getting old.
  • freshnerd, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Fresh art....I'm diggin it
  • colonels1020, on 08/30/2008, -3/+4The 6th one looks like boobies :D
  • ozonew4m, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Ive been working recently on equations and color... My friend and i have been using math to try and equate perfect color combinations using various factors... we have been trying to prove that math has taste as good as a human when it comes to a human brain and that the brain uses complex queries to determine what is good and what is bad... We are still in the early stages but we will be publishing our results very soon at http://www.color-chart.org so keep your eyes open for it :)
  • Dunge, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Any higher res of these pictures? I look bad stretched as my wallpaper...
  • inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1"Even though I hate math… I love what can be created using geometric patterns." YEAH! fractals ARE cool... but i ***** hate math
  • ArkRaider1936, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Do you think cyborgs have dreams of this website?
  • V1ncent, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1PWETTY... COLORS... fap fap fap fap fap fap
  • asvasv, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Some of these are made with Chaoscope, which is good fun to play about with and easy to use.
    http://www.chaoscope.org
  • b3owulf, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Mine:
    http://biggbuckz.deviantart.com/art/Butterflies-22 ...
  • TheMoniker, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Nice. Though I wish that they had dug up some quaternion (4-D complex numbers) fractals. You can use one of the dimensions as time and have this interesting 3-D shape changing over time. Check these out:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_FmzOoJe8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga3XtIw8meg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPR-892DKVs (Maybe turn off the volume if you aren't into jam rock for this last one, the animation is nice though.)
  • hashfail, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Dugg for the video. It's pretty cool when you get past the cheezy title.
  • eddyb123, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Yay, free backgrounds
  • hisfather, on 12/16/2008, -0/+0i sdont get it => they should repeat as often as you can see and even if you zoom in, but some dont do at the above site. strange.

    thinks hisfather, the guy who loves http://www.liebestrank.awardspace.com
  • Anigma, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1Shiny
  • cardshark69, on 08/31/2008, -2/+1Z -> z^2 + c
  • ChaSchva, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1Woah. What was in that cranberry juice?
  • JoeyButler, on 08/30/2008, -1/+0My screen saver uses fractals. For those interested here is the link for it (Mac OS X) http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screen ...
  • wannapiece, on 08/30/2008, -3/+2Fractals or cheesy Tie designs... you decide
  • 3th0s, on 08/30/2008, -3/+1Until you get to the 'nature fractals', this isnt a series of well drawn fractals, per se. Its actually just screenshots from the fractal screensaver ElectricSheep. Still cool nonetheless.
  • ArchAngel21x, on 08/30/2008, -3/+1They look like Winamp plugins.
  • kocurejd, on 08/30/2008, -8/+4Down at the bottom:

    "Don't Forget: Register to Vote"

    Dammit, I can't even look at fractals without being reminded about this ***** of an election
  • bronyraurstomp, on 08/30/2008, -5/+1Nice site, but Hector's are better... Buried
  • phuzzy3d, on 08/30/2008, -7/+1Site is toast.

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