September 13, 2004
New Fractal Collection! Dig in
"Basically, a fractal is any pattern that reveals greater complexity as it is enlarged. Thus, fractals graphically portray the notion of 'worlds within worlds' which has obsessed Western culture from its tenth-century beginnings." In other words, a fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales
Fractal Hypnosis, The movie (Please do not watch while on drugs). Fractal Zoom Movies By Eric Bigas. Fractal Buddha by Lori Gardi. Click on the image for an endless look effect (Similar to Molecular Expressions’s Secret Worlds)
Benoit Mandelbrot - Born: 20 Nov 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. Mandelbrot Portraits. Also, Mandelbrot Homepage
Gaston Maurice Julia - Born: 3 Feb 1893 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. Died: 19 March 1978 in Paris, France. Julia set Google logo
The Infinite Fractal Loop, a web ring dedicated to fractal art
Udo of Aachen, The Mandelbrot Monk by Ray Girvan. A 13th-century monk spent 9 years graphing a fractal, believing it predicted who would go to heaven
Buddhabrot from “Complexification”. The Buddhabrot Technique
Mandala Animation from Clare Goodwin’s Mandala of the Week. These fractal mandalas from “Apothecary’s Drawer”, were made by merging of traditional Islamic tilings with a lamda-sine fractal. Fractal of the Day and Fractal of the Week Archive
Do You See a Pattern Here? An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoît Mandelbrot, father of the fractal
A large gallery of Fractal Recursions
Sierpinski Carpet in math class
Fractal ferns has nothing whatever to do with real ferns except the beauty of likenesses you can create of them
Fractal Music structure, by Martin Guertner. (From An introduction to fractals)
Fractal art from Blatte. Purple Reign by Paul DeCelle
Gallery from Adam Hauner. From Fractal eXtreme
A gallery of fractals made with KPT5 Frax Flame
Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. Here’s the gallery
Ultra Fractal, software to create fractal artwork (And other Fractal Software Programs)
The following links have been previously blogged here: Fractal geometry was devised to help describe the structure of real world objects such as clouds, mountains and complex biological systems. Now you can also buy Fractal Jewellery
Results of the POVRay Fractal Raytracing Contest. (This and other amazing fractals can often be found on “Realty Carnival”)
Alien Tiles Official Web Page
Fractal Cauliflowers at “The Fibonacci vegetable”. More Fractals In Nature
Fractal Tic-Tac-Toe is a game played by two players using a paper board and writing instrument. The board, or game, is divided into nine sections which in turn are divided into nine boxes, each box containing nine spaces. This creates one game with a total of nine sections, 81 boxes and 729 spaces
Fractal images from Damien M. Jones
Animation above from Mind-Boggling Fractals. Got strange fractal links? Please leave them in comments. To re-visit our Fractal Galleries Click Here
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