I think the greatest thing I love about the Fractal art style is that anyone can be good at it if they own a computer, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. Seriously, everything done within this art style is manipulated from something else, which can create some awesome graphics. A lot of brushes can be downloaded from Deviant Art that can aide in the creation of fractal art. I urge everyone to check out that site and get your creative juices flowing!
Mainly, I think the most fun thing about this is that It gives the potential to see what your mind can come up with. Even if its just for creating awesome desktop backgrounds! Check out some fantastic fractal art below
I would like to thank Jake for this bit of information he posted in the comment section. If you don’t want to read the comment I’ll post it here. Thanks again Jake for the read and the info!
*You may know this already, but in case you don’t: fractal art isn’t just photoshop, although photoshop is heavily used to make the fractal more pleasing to the eye…
Fractals are actually produced from mathematics. There are equations that, when run through thousands upon millions of iterations, produce these things. It has a lot to do with chaos theory and in fact if you study a fractal you will see much chaos, or at least what appears to be chaos, which somehow coalesces into perfect order again, only to quickly explode into further chaos. Neat stuff =)
But anyway, the art you have posted is extraordinarily beautiful. Nice finds!*
This comment was posted from Andy with a more descriptive definition of Fractal. Thanks everyone for the comments and if I deem it well enough, I’ll post it! Thanks again!
***What are fractals?
A fractal is generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.” A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.
A fractal often has the following features:
* It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
* It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
* It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
* It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve).
* It has a simple and recursive definition.
Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, fractals are often considered to be infinitely complex (in informal terms). Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes. However, not all self-similar objects are fractals—for example, the real line (a straight Euclidean line) is formally self-similar but fails to have other fractal characteristics; for instance, it is regular enough to be described in Euclidean terms.
Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software. Images produced by such software are normally referred to as being fractals even if they do not have the above characteristics, as it is possible to zoom into a region of the image that does not exhibit any fractal properties.
Please see more details here:
You can make your own fractals with GIMP* (GNU Image Manipulation Program), and the free down-loadable fractal maker, fractal generator application call “Xaos”. Just type this word to the Google search bar.
*The GIMP is an open source application which works under Windows, Linux, Mac and many other operation systems. The GIMP “knows” the same things like PhotoShop. There is a big battle between PhotoShop and GIMP for the first position. You must to pay lot of money for PhotoShop and you can download the GIMP freely.***
I’m also having fun with this minicity thing. Please click the link and give me a hand! Mini City
Or click this link to help the City!(yes I know it’s stupid, but I’m really bored some days, and I think this is fun)
Fractal Art
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these are really amazing. where did they come from
Hey
Mostly they are created images from photoshop. However, if your looking for some awesome backgrounds I suggest searching Devaintart.com and checking out what they offer. Many artists that are great with computers produce stuff there.
fractals are geometric progessive formulas that are developed with other formulaic conversions that further develop the image, you can download a trial version of ultra fractal and play away… then take your creation into photoshop to further clarify or develop your images, there is an array of different brushes available for photoshop and a variety of formulas and gradients as well as color algorithims for ultra fractal available all over the place.
have fun
Hello there, is this your art? if so I would be interested in using some for some album art and was wondering if you would mind? If not, where did you find this?
Hi Tom,
I’ve actually just searched the internet and found some quality photos, as well as created some of my own. Either way, go for it. Just get the art out as much as possible!
You may know this already, but in case you don’t: fractal art isn’t just photoshop, although photoshop is heavily used to make the fractal more pleasing to the eye…
Fractals are actually produced from mathematics. There are equations that, when run through thousands upon millions of iterations, produce these things. It has a lot to do with chaos theory and in fact if you study a fractal you will see much chaos, or at least what appears to be chaos, which somehow coalesces into perfect order again, only to quickly explode into further chaos. Neat stuff =)
But anyway, the art you have posted is extraordinarily beautiful. Nice finds!
What are fractals?
A fractal is generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.” A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.
A fractal often has the following features:
* It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
* It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
* It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
* It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve).
* It has a simple and recursive definition.
Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, fractals are often considered to be infinitely complex (in informal terms). Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes. However, not all self-similar objects are fractals—for example, the real line (a straight Euclidean line) is formally self-similar but fails to have other fractal characteristics; for instance, it is regular enough to be described in Euclidean terms.
Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software. Images produced by such software are normally referred to as being fractals even if they do not have the above characteristics, as it is possible to zoom into a region of the image that does not exhibit any fractal properties.
Please see more details here:
You can make your own fractals with GIMP* (GNU Image Manipulation Program), and the free down-loadable fractal maker, fractal generator application call “Xaos”. Just type this word to the Google search bar.
*The GIMP is an open source application which works under Windows, Linux, Mac and many other operation systems. The GIMP “knows” the same things like PhotoShop. There are a big battle between PhotoShop and GIMP for the first position. You must to pay lot of money for PhotoShop and you can download the GIMP freely.
Friendly greetings! Andy (fom Hungary)
Hi there
I though you create the last pic with apophys, right?
I love fractuals. Never can make any as pretty a what I find on the net though. I dye silk, yarn and roving so am always looking for pleasing color combinations – They are always in fractuals. Thanks for sharing your work..