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35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures
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.
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35 Beautiful Fractal Art Pictures
A Colorful Circle
The play of colors is remarkable.
Dot Dot Dot
Created by Lynn ON VACATION (Gracie’s mom).
Fire Snail
Created by Sven Fauth.
Ring of fire
Created by Carl Jones.
Experiment 109 – Fractals
Created by Lynn ON VACATION.
Flaming Eye-Spiral
Created by Sven Fauth.
I sleep only to dream of you
Created by longan drink.
Water Lilies
These fractal flames were created by Roger Johnston and are an “extension of the iterated function system class of fractals”.
Dec 31 Apophysis 1
Julian Bilateral.
Quantum Fabric
A pure fractal flame by Cory Ench.
Nabdrux
An abstract piece of art by mailart-org.
Fractal Web
Created by Sven Fauth.
Stefano Menicagli’s
Alien Sphere
Squidswirl2b1
A swirly beauty.
Silwenka’s
Gloris
Peter Sdobnov’s
Treasure in 3D
Keith Mackay’s
Butterflies
Peter Sdobnov’s
Cataclysm
Bobrobon’s
The Human Abstract
Eye of the storm
The infinity strikes again.
xNight’s
Chaotic Love
Cygx1’s
The Awakening III – Rebirth
Micheal Faber’s
Counter Spin III
LaPurr’s
Subtle Masking
Subcarrier’s
Tales from the Trip
Chris Martin’s
Gift Box Marble – Festive Spirit
Katryna Wade’s
Phoenix Heart Be Reborn
Chris Martin’s
Strawberry Fields Forever
Dirk Monteny’s
Cubik Olympic
Grinagog’s
Curling Conks
Subcarrier’s
Decay
Silverb’s
The Icon of Hecate
Morgan Chase’s
Cosmic Carnival
Zooreka
UF 109 Project Purple Parasite
AsaLegault’s
Polka Dot Explosion
Last Click
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.
Resources
- Incendia
The fractal program developed by Ramiro Perez, available free for download - Apophysis
A freeware fractal flame editor for Windows - Freaky Fractals
A collection of fractals in high resolution. - Fractal World Gallery
188 beautiful fractal art pictures, created by Cory Ench. - Fractal Art: Complex and Beautiful Color Inspiration
A showcase of 20 Beautiful Fractal Artworks - Flame Fractals That Take Your Breath Away
Witness the beauty and elegance of mathematics with 50 breathtaking fractals. - Fractal Food
“This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it’s hard to imagine you’re looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology.” - Apophysis Resources
- Flickr Fractal Group
- Fractal Tutorials
- Fractal Art
Created and collected by Lynn ON VACATION (Gracie’s mom).
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.
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October 17th, 2008 5:27 amcool! amazing and incredible!
- 3October 17th, 2008 5:31 am
Woah dude.
- 4October 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
- 5October 17th, 2008 5:46 am
looks good. thanks for this
Ronald
- 6October 17th, 2008 5:46 am
Some fractal make me dizzy. anyway, nice collection, some’re really awesome..
- 7October 17th, 2008 6:22 am
very very good examples
here are some more in wallpaper screen resolutions
http://www.wallpaperstop.com/desktop-wallpapers/3d-wallpaper/fractal-wallpaper-3d-3748.jpg.html
http://www.wallpaperstop.com/desktop-wallpapers/widescreen-wallpaper/widescreen-3d-wallpaper/speed-1680×1050-wallpaper.jpg.html - 8October 17th, 2008 8:08 am
Breathtakingly amazing renders!
Congrats to all the artists @ to Robert for bringing them to our attention! WOW & thanks - 9October 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.
- 10October 17th, 2008 8:42 am
ultimate collection!!
- 11October 17th, 2008 9:00 am
some of these look like the visualizations from winamp, cool nonetheless
- 12October 17th, 2008 9:26 am
Could you post a fractal tutorial sometime
- 13October 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!
- 14October 17th, 2008 12:27 pm
Great stuff. Very artistic.
- 15October 17th, 2008 12:30 pm
woah indeed. i like ring of fire the best!
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- 17October 17th, 2008 7:03 pm
Most of them really beautiful, Gonna download some of them and use as wallpaper
http://Www.iHaCK.ASIA - 18October 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!
- 19October 18th, 2008 2:20 am
Simply dizzy making and amazing.
Use to be busy making them myself with simple code back in the days….
- 20October 18th, 2008 5:52 am
so glamourous!
- 21October 18th, 2008 5:52 am
I love what you do reminds me of finger painting when I was a child.
- 22October 18th, 2008 9:21 am
really Excellent Collection of design
- 23October 18th, 2008 10:12 am
Nothing spectacular about any of these. Quite boring, actually.
- 24October 18th, 2008 11:05 am
aa there some fractals amazing on this collection, but other are poor :D
- 25October 18th, 2008 1:14 pm
Nah…. Fractals…. not my thing!
- 26October 18th, 2008 10:05 pm
Very cool!
- 27October 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.
- 28October 19th, 2008 6:49 pm
nice i really love fractals!! love it!
- 29October 19th, 2008 10:31 pm
Quantum Fabric is awesome. Though I don’t really like fractals.
- 30October 19th, 2008 10:57 pm
Cool fractals, love them all!
- 31October 20th, 2008 12:06 am
J’adore!
- 32October 20th, 2008 1:00 am
Sadly, another poorly researched article on fractal art. Amateurish showcase at best for the most part.
- 33October 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.
- 34October 20th, 2008 4:44 am
I don’t like fractal arts.. thumbs down for this post :-(
- 35October 20th, 2008 5:41 am
I love the “Waterlillies”. Nice use of color.
- 36October 20th, 2008 8:28 am
I love fractal so much!
- 37October 21st, 2008 11:49 am
Muito bom é pouco trabalho fantastico……………..
- 38October 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!
- 39October 23rd, 2008 8:43 am
Thank you Robert for feature my “Alien Sphere” fractal in this great image gallery.
Regards.
Stefano. - 40October 23rd, 2008 12:11 pm
Friggin dope, really like the cubic olympic.
- 41October 24th, 2008 4:26 am
Thank You
very good - 42October 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.
- 43November 4th, 2008 5:04 pm
Will be the art for the future.
- 44November 8th, 2008 1:40 pm
most beautiful…..stuning..(smile)
- 45December 9th, 2008 6:40 pm
Сколько ж можно говорить
- 46January 23rd, 2009 10:05 am
art is amazing is my best sub.
- 47January 23rd, 2009 10:06 am
art is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 48April 6th, 2009 1:09 pm
I LUVS IT YOU GUYS AREN’T ON THE NAUGHTY LIST
- 49April 6th, 2009 1:09 pm
HOHOHO
- 50January 12th, 2010 2:01 pm
Stumbled on this about a year after the fact, but I wanted to thank you for including my fractal here. I wondered where all those hits were coming from, I guess now I know! =) Some of my favorite artists are included here, and it’s rather a thrill to see myself alongside them. =D
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:/ bth I dislike fractals but nice collection