A good photographer puts a lot of effort into understanding how light and cameras work I've put a lot of effort into understanding how fractals work.įractal art definitely has its share of "kodak kids," but in some ways that serves to illustrate that the really awesome looking fractals aren't accidents. Obviously, any kid can pick up a kodak, press buttons, and produce photos, but it won't make them a good photographer. I like to make analogies to photography, mainly because I've also heard "you're just pressing a button, you're not actually creating anything" as a response to that medium. From there, I spent several hours getting everything perfect. I started out that piece not knowing exactly what I wanted to make, so I tried mixing a few formulas I hadn't used much before until I got some ideas. For instance, here is the layerstack of one of my most technically complex images. However, I don't think that this is mutually exclusive with "being responsible for" the final image. I won't deny that there is some level of experimentation going on I don't sit down every time with a perfect image of what I want to make in my head. I have also dabbled in representational work like this before, but I personally prefer the more abstract and geometric images. What if I generated the program in the first place?īut even without doing that, the amount of "control" that one can develop within a fractal program is actually pretty dang incredible. I also occasionally write my own custom formulas, which rather blurs the line of what "just generated by the program" means. It was no happy accident and to my knowledge nobody had ever done pinwheel fractals in apo before (indeed, another experienced apo user told me he didn't think it was even possible). Once, I read about the pinwheel fractal, decided I wanted to make it in apophysis, and proceeded to do so, from scratch. In fact, one of the programs I use (Ultra Fractal) doesn't even have the capability to randomly generate images in the first place.
Long answer: I usually start from blank parameters, occasionally from another artist's parameters (with permission and credit), and never from the randomly generated pre-filled parameters that the program can generate.
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