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35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

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In the realm of digital art, so many wonderful and playful genres exist that stimulate the imagination, but so few do it with the intricate style of fractal art. Fractal art is achieved through the mathematical calculations of fractal objects being visually displayed, with the use of self-similar transforms that are generated and manipulated with different assigned geometric properties to produce multiple variations of the shape in continually reducing patterns. Sounds extremely technical and not that artistic, true, but these equations create some of the most mesmerizing and inspiring artwork to emerge from the digital art arena.

In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we look at awe-inspiring examples of the dynamic digital art sensation that is fractal art with 50 Phenomenal Fractal Art Renders. Setting across the vast sea of cyberspace to find these works was such an amazing task as so many fantastic pieces surfaced. Here are scaled-down versions of some of the most breathtaking ones that were uncovered, though the full-sized versions (linked through the image) offer a much more spectacular view of these mathematical masterpieces.

35 Beautiful Fractal Art Pictures

A Colorful Circle
The play of colors is remarkable.

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Dot Dot Dot
Created by Lynn ON VACATION (Gracie’s mom).

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Fire Snail
Created by Sven Fauth.

Snail in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Ring of fire
Created by Carl Jones.

Inf in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Experiment 109 – Fractals
Created by Lynn ON VACATION.

Circle in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Flaming Eye-Spiral
Created by Sven Fauth.

Spir in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

I sleep only to dream of you
Created by longan drink.

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Water Lilies
These fractal flames were created by Roger Johnston and are an “extension of the iterated function system class of fractals”.

Water in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Dec 31 Apophysis 1
Julian Bilateral.

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Quantum Fabric
A pure fractal flame by Cory Ench.

Fractal62 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Nabdrux
An abstract piece of art by mailart-org.

Fractal63 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Fractal Web
Created by Sven Fauth.

Aw in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Stefano Menicagli’s
Alien Sphere

Fractal12 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Grape Jelly Nebula

Img in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Squidswirl2b1
A swirly beauty.

Fractal60 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Silwenka’s
Gloris

Fractal22 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Peter Sdobnov’s
Treasure in 3D

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Keith Mackay’s
Butterflies

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Peter Sdobnov’s
Cataclysm

Fractal6 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Bobrobon’s
The Human Abstract

Fractal36 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Eye of the storm
The infinity strikes again.

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xNight’s
Chaotic Love

Fractal14 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Cygx1’s
The Awakening III – Rebirth

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Micheal Faber’s
Counter Spin III

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LaPurr’s
Subtle Masking

Fractal24 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Subcarrier’s
Tales from the Trip

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Chris Martin’s
Gift Box Marble – Festive Spirit

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Katryna Wade’s
Phoenix Heart Be Reborn

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Chris Martin’s
Strawberry Fields Forever

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Dirk Monteny’s
Cubik Olympic

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Grinagog’s
Curling Conks

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Subcarrier’s
Decay

Fractal35 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Silverb’s
The Icon of Hecate

Fractal37 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Morgan Chase’s
Cosmic Carnival

Fractal48 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

Zooreka
UF 109 Project Purple Parasite

Fractal5 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

AsaLegault’s
Polka Dot Explosion

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Last Click

Fractal50 in 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

The last click goes out to a spectacular example of artistic will and ingenuity as demonstrated by Ramiro Perez in a stunning work produced with the fractal program that he himself created. His desire to create such phenomenal work is alone inspiration enough, but throw in his incredible artwork, and he’s practically unstoppable.

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Robert Bowen is an emerging author, celebrated podcaster and poet, and most recently the co-founder and imaginative co-contributor of the creative design and blogging duo at the Arbenting Freebies Blog and Dead Wings Designs. Rob is also currently Co-Editor of Fuel Your Creativity along with his wife Angie Bowen.

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  1. 1
    Ethan Ellis
    October 17th, 2008 5:16 am

    :/ bth I dislike fractals but nice collection

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    vashyoung
    October 17th, 2008 5:27 am

    cool! amazing and incredible!

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    Nathan
    October 17th, 2008 5:31 am

    Woah dude.

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    NL Schober
    October 17th, 2008 5:41 am

    It’s beyond me how anyone could not like fractals.

    I think Manas Dichow needs a special mention here;
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/manas_dichow/2912067277/
    IMHO his fractals on Flickr are leagues above the others.

    Alice Kelley is pretty cool too. http://www.fractalus.com/cheshirecat/index.html

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    NaldzGraphics
    October 17th, 2008 5:46 am

    looks good. thanks for this

    Ronald

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    Htoo Tay Zar
    October 17th, 2008 5:46 am

    Some fractal make me dizzy. anyway, nice collection, some’re really awesome..

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    Carol Cooper
    October 17th, 2008 8:08 am

    Breathtakingly amazing renders!
    Congrats to all the artists @ to Robert for bringing them to our attention! WOW & thanks

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    Etlund
    October 17th, 2008 8:17 am

    Wow, fractals sure look different than when I was a kid! (Remember Fractint on a 486?)

    Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

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    Raman Sharma
    October 17th, 2008 8:42 am

    ultimate collection!!

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    romanovichk
    October 17th, 2008 9:00 am

    some of these look like the visualizations from winamp, cool nonetheless

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    Braxton
    October 17th, 2008 9:26 am

    Could you post a fractal tutorial sometime

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    justin
    October 17th, 2008 9:29 am

    electricsheep.org

    some of these pics are from the generated fractals from this screensaver.

    just download the packs install, and stare at your screen for an hour!

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    Jon
    October 17th, 2008 12:27 pm

    Great stuff. Very artistic.

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    segfault
    October 17th, 2008 12:30 pm

    woah indeed. i like ring of fire the best!

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    Mark
    October 17th, 2008 1:31 pm

    Cool impressive list!

    I love to create some generative art too.

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    dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA)
    October 17th, 2008 7:03 pm

    Most of them really beautiful, Gonna download some of them and use as wallpaper
    http://Www.iHaCK.ASIA

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    Spindrift
    October 18th, 2008 2:12 am

    wow.
    I’ve allways been intrigued by fractals, but many of those are something else.
    When people start to make 3d renderings of fractal structures, and apply depth of field to fractal depths, we get some very interesting results.

    great stuff!

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    Tschai
    October 18th, 2008 2:20 am

    Simply dizzy making and amazing.

    Use to be busy making them myself with simple code back in the days….

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    Valery Mishkorez
    October 18th, 2008 5:52 am

    so glamourous!

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    dollslikeus
    October 18th, 2008 5:52 am

    I love what you do reminds me of finger painting when I was a child.

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    decent graphics
    October 18th, 2008 9:21 am

    really Excellent Collection of design

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    Ignatz Horowitz
    October 18th, 2008 10:12 am

    Nothing spectacular about any of these. Quite boring, actually.

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    Lucas Loyola
    October 18th, 2008 11:05 am

    aa there some fractals amazing on this collection, but other are poor :D

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    jbcarey
    October 18th, 2008 1:14 pm

    Nah…. Fractals…. not my thing!

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    hanliu
    October 18th, 2008 10:05 pm

    Very cool!

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    carlos
    October 19th, 2008 4:04 am

    hmmm… I haven´t been taking notice of fractals recently – fractal art has come a long way since the mandelbrot spirals I used to create on my old PowerMac.

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    ferdranda
    October 19th, 2008 6:49 pm

    nice i really love fractals!! love it!

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    Andris
    October 19th, 2008 10:31 pm

    Quantum Fabric is awesome. Though I don’t really like fractals.

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    Joefrey Mahusay
    October 19th, 2008 10:57 pm

    Cool fractals, love them all!

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    jean-marc
    October 20th, 2008 12:06 am

    J’adore!

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    Nick
    October 20th, 2008 1:00 am

    Sadly, another poorly researched article on fractal art. Amateurish showcase at best for the most part.

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    Tom
    October 20th, 2008 3:20 am

    You can play around with the Mandelbrot fractal online with this Flash Mandelbrot Explorer. You can also download the source code too if you want to see how it works.

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    Rakesh.S
    October 20th, 2008 4:44 am

    I don’t like fractal arts.. thumbs down for this post :-(

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    MSOnWired
    October 20th, 2008 5:41 am

    I love the “Waterlillies”. Nice use of color.

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    Tina
    October 20th, 2008 8:28 am

    I love fractal so much!

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    Cesar
    October 21st, 2008 11:49 am

    Muito bom é pouco trabalho fantastico……………..

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    Robert Bowen
    October 21st, 2008 1:14 pm

    Thanks for the comments and the feedback. Some of these are new to me, and I think show a nice balance of basic to more in-depth renders. It creates a sort of spectrum, if you will, and if you won’t…I’ve got nothing.

    Glad you like it, those who do. Sorry, those who don’t. Big shout out to the artists for creating such colorful and inspiring works!

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    Direct2Brain
    October 23rd, 2008 8:43 am

    Thank you Robert for feature my “Alien Sphere” fractal in this great image gallery.
    Regards.
    Stefano.

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    graphiconcepts
    October 23rd, 2008 12:11 pm

    Friggin dope, really like the cubic olympic.

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    ali
    October 24th, 2008 4:26 am

    Thank You
    very good

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    Pamela
    October 26th, 2008 6:55 pm

    Well, everyone has their own tastes, but I agree with the comment or rather question “How can someone not like fractals”? They may be manufactured, but the sheer beauty and variety of them can challenge ones’ imagination endlessly. These are stunning.

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    TERRY FRASER
    November 4th, 2008 5:04 pm

    Will be the art for the future.

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    Dianne
    November 8th, 2008 1:40 pm

    most beautiful…..stuning..(smile)

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    Kukla1973
    December 9th, 2008 6:40 pm

    Сколько ж можно говорить

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    cory
    January 23rd, 2009 10:05 am

    art is amazing is my best sub.

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    cory
    January 23rd, 2009 10:06 am

    art is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Santa Claus
    April 6th, 2009 1:09 pm

    I LUVS IT YOU GUYS AREN’T ON THE NAUGHTY LIST

  49. 49
    Santa Claus
    April 6th, 2009 1:09 pm

    HOHOHO

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