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Yes, you are right… and it is great designs.. Thanks for posting.

good

Absolutely stunning!

Great, and “Unknown” is interesting one.
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The first one has purple color :)

Boring.

Mmm. Not for me.

I 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 ;)

i never liked fractals…the first is decent though…

I 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.

I love black &white fractals…find them very inspiring.

this is some freaking nerdy ugly sh*t

I 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.

Awful! 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.

I 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

Odd topic choice, kinda cool I suppose.

I can’t believe so many people find these designs boring. I think these are the coolest things ever.

Fractals 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.

thank You for featuring 2 of my articles as well!! Greetings from 1stwebdesigner!

I 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’

great….looks really nice.

Interesting images…gets my mind moving.

one 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.

Yeah!

It’s a little late, but you otter change the attribution on the stolen image. rb