12/27/2023 0 Comments Ultra fractal 6 personal imagesThis cellphone case wasn’t made in PS obviously but being made of sequins and metalic shapes, the star shape being most prominent, it does reflect the same style –but different source idea– that I’ve been talking about. Geometric assemblages and patterns are an example of what I would call the fractal aesthetic, a fractal style of imagery associated with fractal programs and not strictly fractal math itself. While it has detail that would be pretty hard to imitate in PS, it also has an aesthetic that is much less exclusive. Sam’s work above was part of a BMFAC exhibition in the judge’s category. Remember the point of this posting is that many fractal artworks have moved into less distinctive territory and because of this one often finds similar artworks that are not the result of fractal formula rendering. But that’s the whole point that much of fractal art today isn’t reliant on the complex drawing powers of formulas but rather the creative possibilities of rich rendering methods and the careful selection of zoomed-in areas.Īlright. Granted, Mark’s image doesn’t depict complex fractal structures that would be difficult to duplicate with non-fractal methods and so it’s not really an example of Ultra Fractal vs. One using fractal algorithms and the other a stylus and Photoshop. The style of imagery is essentially the same and yet they were made in two very different programs. Whether one is better than the other is not what these comparisons are about. You can’t really appreciate the detail with this size but you can tell it has a lot going on. Here’s a new abstract piece that was done using a wacom tablet and some filters. Mark had an image similar to the one above included in one of the exhibits and this one here is from the front page of his online gallery site clearly a favourite of his.īelow is an image by Randy Kochis. I could have chosen eccentric examples from unknown artists but they could easily be shrugged off as not representative of anything except themselves. I have used fractal images that were chosen for the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Exhibits (winners) since I wanted to used fractal art that was representative of a consensus of opinions and therefore exemplary of fractal art today. While doing so, however, they blurred the distinction between Ultra Fractal and Photoshop, which I think you will see in the images below.įractal Dimentia front page art by Mark Townsend (fractal) Fractal artists these days chose to pursue the more wide-ranging, synthetic themes than the classical fractal shapes and structures of the past. That “digital art made in a fractal program” is an example of the synthesizing capabilities of fractal programs. My point is that fractal programs are capable of producing highly distinctive works exemplifying the graphical creativity of fractal geometry, but also of producing things that are much less distinctive and best regarded as just digital art made in a fractal program. All of the fractal artworks I’m going to review here and compare have been selected by others for their artistic merit. This doesn’t mean fractal art is no good anymore. If someone can make the same kind of fractal art in Photoshop as one does in Ultra Fractal but without the use of fractal algorithms, then surely the fractal link in much of fractal art these days is truly weak. However, I think fractal programs have for years been used primarily to synthesize artwork of a much more general nature and the connection with fractal math is an exaggeration. Most people commonly think of fractal art as the visualization of math or of at least having a unique character because of its inner workings that draw on the principles of fractal geometry. Fractal art borders on this synthetic realm because it is one of the most powerful tools for the computational generation of imagery. This is the third part of a series on The Synthetic Aesthetic: artwork which is mechanically made as opposed to handmade ( Part 1 / Part 2 ).
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