Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity
Advertisement
Everyday we see objects consisting of one, two, and three dimensions. By incorporating mathematics with design, the outcome of computer generated fractals is based upon complexity, creativity and perception.
By removing the beautiful array of colors we typically see in fractals at these finer magnifications, the manipulation of fractional dimensions with the black & white designs offers a different perspective of aesthetically appealing images.
Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity
Further Resources
- 35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures
- 60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis
- 40 Amazing 3D Fractals Using Apophysis
- 33 Outstanding Apophysis Tutorials
- Blatte’s Backgrounds
- Fractal World Gallery
- Fractal Recursions
- Hidden Dimensions Galleries
Hidden dimensions Fractals Gallery. - Visual Math: Natural Fractals
Naturally occurring fractals. - Apophysis Rocks Flickr Pool
Lynn’s amazing collection of fractal art. - Fractal Geometry
- Fractal explorer
Fractal Explorer: a simple fractal generator.
ashok
April 26th, 2009 11:05 pmYes, you are right… and it is great designs.. Thanks for posting.
ravemedics
April 26th, 2009 11:12 pmsome of them like ‘MrsMagooWannab’ I think are really good, but others just puzzle me and I cannot see the art in them.
an.gg.un
April 26th, 2009 11:13 pmgood
Jeff
April 26th, 2009 11:27 pmLooks like something I’d buy at a 99 cent store. And it would come framed.
I’ve never seen collection so completely uninspiring in my life.
Gerri
April 26th, 2009 11:29 pmAbsolutely stunning!
Markcb36
April 26th, 2009 11:31 pmSorry, I have to agree with Jeff, a rare miss.
Hasan Tayyar BEŞİK
April 26th, 2009 11:44 pmGreat, and “Unknown” is interesting one.
–
The first one has purple color :)
Andris
April 27th, 2009 12:03 amDon’t like Fractals. Sorry.
Pandjarov
April 27th, 2009 12:04 amBoring.
Sue
April 27th, 2009 12:38 amI really hate things that look like this. sorry!!!
Sasha
September 18th, 2010 11:06 amI really hate things that look like your face. lol
Jorg
April 27th, 2009 12:39 amMmm. Not for me.
PhilD
April 27th, 2009 12:44 amDefinitely some great designs.
I would like to see
the next development
in the evaluation of these or
other ideas with colours added.
Floris Fiedeldij Dop
April 27th, 2009 1:11 amI am a bit surprised to see this entry on SM, but .. it’s still a good read and I got introduced to some new artists and web sites. I have yet to find the end of the Internet ;)
sama creation
April 27th, 2009 1:50 amThanks great design
sahil khan
April 27th, 2009 2:57 ami never liked fractals…the first is decent though…
Lea Verou
April 27th, 2009 3:14 amI think some of them aren’t really fractals, for instance the first and third “Unknown”.
Nice article though.
J
December 7th, 2010 4:45 amThat one was done using a plastic script, that was an earlier work I did once , actually got sold as a large print, I can see why ppl don’t have an eye for anything.
Leonard
April 27th, 2009 4:30 amI thought fractals went out of fashion in the late 90s! Most either look dated or dull. A lot could be made be made by someone messing up an abstract tutorial, I’ve made some stuff that would be better then some of these that way!
Julean McLean, Coolheart (especially), Lynn and the Unknown underneath that are pretty sweet. But on the whole its a bit meh, some are really bad. The only saving grace is that being black and white its less nauseating to look at. Sorry to be mean, but… well.
spritzstuhl
April 27th, 2009 4:49 amLooks like an off-topic to me. Anyway, if you are interested in Math you’ll like it.
Simona
April 27th, 2009 5:17 amI love black &white fractals…find them very inspiring.
bs.kishore
April 27th, 2009 5:46 amQuite good.Some of them could be the computational interpretations of Chaos theory.
d
April 27th, 2009 6:39 amthis is some freaking nerdy ugly sh*t
Ash
April 27th, 2009 7:18 amWhat a boring day…
Nightbird
April 27th, 2009 7:21 amI have seen Fractal art before and love the work on the whole. In this collection “lapurr” is my favorite. I must admit that color enhances the images greatly. “lapurr” would be truly spectacular in color. Thanks for sharing.
roboellis
April 27th, 2009 8:00 amPure Cheeeeese!
Sorry.
AlFlow
April 27th, 2009 1:43 pmAwful! Really, I truly love this site and this is the laziest and least inspiring post I have ever seen. Anywhere.
Fractals have to be done really well if they are worth the time otherwise (like these) they look like lazy 90s trance flyers.
Unknown
April 27th, 2009 1:59 pmUm… a Mandelbrot set? Can you honestly put “Unknown” on that? :P
Unknown
April 27th, 2009 2:01 pmI guess all the people who hate these things probably don’t understand the exact process behind them or why they say something profound about the universe. :3
J
December 7th, 2010 4:52 amYou are the smartest one so far who has said something that is of the obvious, sadly these minds are too closed up, only because it’s black and white and not in color.
Petey
April 27th, 2009 3:23 pmCapture Creativity? That is one of the dumbest titles I have seen in weeks. It reads like those insufferable flickr comments.
Leland Clemmons
April 27th, 2009 3:26 pmOdd topic choice, kinda cool I suppose.
Ard_Choille
April 27th, 2009 3:52 pmI love working with black and white gradients with my fractals. I agree that the creativity factor is ramped up a bit when the gradient is minimal.
Nice collection of fractals!
Laura
April 27th, 2009 4:15 pmI can’t believe so many people find these designs boring. I think these are the coolest things ever.
DeepZoom
April 27th, 2009 5:59 pmThanks for featuring my artwork!
John
April 27th, 2009 11:46 pmFractals are a mathematical marvel. It amazes me that simple mathematics can produce such images (yes, I know complex numbers are involved, but they’re simple formulae using complex numbers).
The mathematics produces the beauty. It doesn’t need any input from a human. To me, human intervention detracts from the innate beauty of fractals.
I’m sorry, but the images which appealed to me were the more organic ones. The revelation of fractals was that mathematics can do that.
Slavomir
April 28th, 2009 2:16 amWonderfull collection!!! Big thanx!
Dainis Graveris
April 28th, 2009 3:06 amthank You for featuring 2 of my articles as well!! Greetings from 1stwebdesigner!
Daz
April 28th, 2009 4:07 amWorst collection yet. How the hell am i supposed to use these as a web designer?
John
April 28th, 2009 4:35 amI think it’s an error to say the colours were removed to make these monochrome images. Fractals don’t intrinsically have colours.
Fractals are generated by iterative algorithms and colour is usually employed to show how many iterations were involved. The number and choice of colours is entirely up to the person who created the graphics software.
Many of the comments here have been negative. Maybe ‘more colour’ is equated with ‘more beautiful’
Gregory
April 28th, 2009 4:43 pmhigh-school… beads and incence. =P
Fatima
April 28th, 2009 11:39 pmgreat….looks really nice.
Bademesteren
April 29th, 2009 3:48 amReally a wierd article … don’t like odd looking fractals that remind me of a has been metal bands… with bad tattos
gfieldsend
April 29th, 2009 5:28 amInteresting images…gets my mind moving.
alfredo
April 29th, 2009 7:11 amIt looks like those kpt fractal filters converted to grayscale. Seriously, these images could do anything but “capture creativity”
Greg
May 1st, 2009 9:19 amone or two of these might be considered “different than the normal hippie fractal”, but capturing creativity? Hardly.
99% of these just look like fractals made grayscale.
#6 looks like the only fractal that was utilized into something halfway interesting.
Nah, screw it… these all suck.
Weed
May 5th, 2009 11:22 amsome lovely fractal art — a reminder that the ultimate mystery of fractals such as the Mandelbrot lies not in the colours or even in the swirly patterns, but in the nature of the border between the points which lie within the set and the points which escape to infinity
Tetz
May 7th, 2009 5:33 amYeah!
Karmen
May 12th, 2009 9:50 pmThe fractal labeled as Mad1er was phished from ScienceBlogs.com. It’s really disappointing to see that someone would take anything from a page like Mad1er’s and call it art. I made the original fractal, which you can see here:here It is admittedly one of my more abstract, and in this case, less creative works. It wasn’t supposed to be monochrome, either, but coffee-colored. If someone had asked, I could have provided much better examples to suit this article. I hope next time you folks take on a complex subject like this, you can do an appropriate amount of research first.
arby
May 14th, 2009 5:51 amIt’s a little late, but you otter change the attribution on the stolen image. rb
kandagatla
July 30th, 2009 3:46 amgreat work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for posting……
Unknown Artist
December 7th, 2010 4:57 amThis is thre first time, I have ever came here and seeing such good work in the form of fractals, alot of negative posts tell me that ppl are closed up and narrow minded, if your smart you see that art is art in all forms if it was used in the 90′s fine but be creative and stop putting other down.
No wonder some not all are so stupid.