Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Fractals are back!

Fractals are back! Not since we used Fractint back in the end of the 80s have fractals been so cool. If you can call "16 color 100x100 pixel fractals that took half an hour to create" cool. I can remember my good mate and skateboard mentor Tim Walters and his brother making fractal and fractal landscape pictures on PCs that calculated for days at a time to output an image large enough to get printed onto posters. Not sure if they did make any money from it though. In fact this program Ultra Fractal 3, has all of the original Fractint settings you can use but it zooms into and rides the fractal trees and spiral arms like the best magic mushroom trip you ever had. The image above is actually 2 of the same fractals (fractai?) on different layers with opacity settings applied and different gradient settings. All done in the same program. Photoshop not needed! Still dont know what a fractal is? Check here. To download a demo of the program, click here. Just found a cool site with loads of fractals from different programs too. Click here. Nice. See you there.......

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