Math, Software and the Beauty of Fractals [Original Artwork]
Universe itself is a fractal, an intricate combination of math formulas and geometrical, recursive shapes: it's so fascinating to lose into it!
So today I want to share with you some of my fractal artwork, created using Mandelbuld 3d software.
The software is not really friendly, you need to change some math formulas and wait a while to render the results. But it's worth the effort, sometimes! Until now, I was able to create only a few good artworks, and I want to share them with you here.
All pictures released under Creative Commons license. To verify my artworks check my web page here
I love MandelBulb 3D too. I've posted a few of my images here if you're interested...
Thank you, they are both beautiful, following you :)
Gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
Will post more as I create something new :)
wow, trippy!
Thank you! I think only the first one is really good...
I'm going to experiment more in the future and post some more :)
Looking forward to the content! :)
Hopefully I will create more, I got so many different inputs and projects and sometimes I don't know which one should have priority :)
The first one is awesome!
It has a certain SF feel to it.
Thank you so much, often fractals have a SF but also organic feeling :)
At one time in my life I was a bit obsessed with fractals. Started with the Madelbrott set. 2D, took ages to render. Now 3D, think I'm gonna give it a try again soon. :-)
Also 2D can be cool, but 3D is way cooler, and you can even create animations (takes even more to render).
So technology improves but rendering times keep staying big :)
Think an animation of the First one would be awesome. Worth the wait. :-)
Yeah, I don't even know if I have the preset for that saved somewhere :)
I found the fractal art on pixabay quite useful when trying to find art to complement my sci-fi story. These two are quite good!
Thank you, working to make more of them :)
My goodness that is stunning!
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it :)
I can attest that this software is fun to use. I used it years ago when I was trying to teach myself openGL / SDL (which is not very friendly, mind you).
I managed to have a Mandelbrot generator where if you click on a pixel, it would generate the associated Julia Set.
I wonder where that code is ... somewhere lost in the abyss of things. Although, it may even be on this laptop I'm using now ... maybe I'll find it.
Anyway, I have been preparing a post on the math of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets for awhile (it's related to chaos theory and was a natural extension of my chaos theory post from long ago). I can go ahead and add this topic in there, too!
Thank you for your feedback, @complexring!
The software is fun to use but also somehow painful (long rendering times, messing around with formulas and parameters, etc). Often I don't get great final results, other times I do, rarely indeed :)
If you write something related to chaos theory and fractals, please share it here on comments, I am very interested to these topics and very curious to learn more!
this is beautiful!
Thank you so much, I am not able to draw and paint, so at least I try something different :)
I have mandelbuld-images before, but these are the best, especially the alien cityscape in the top. Bravo!
It's all about creating math formulas, so usually I start from some prebuilt formula found on the internet and change some parameters until something interesting comes out :)
I know... strangest way to create an image :)