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Computer art is a hobby - I have never made a nickel from my images,
but I sure have spent a few.
I am particularly attracted to the art of the 50's. The type of stuff done by Chesely Bonestell.
Currently I am using Artmatic Voyager as a fractal landscape generator.
In the mid 90's I first saw a
program called KPT Bryce which was a fractal landscape program.
This program was based on the work of F Kenton Musgrave who
designed the initial fractal-based programs on which Bryce was based.
His work was featured in an article in the January 1996 Scientific
American (Playing Slartibartfast with Fractals; January 1996; by
Gibbs), about fractal curves.
The article described software that he had designed which would generate entire planets at random and allow a user to walk about that world, exploring mountains or forests, etc.
All of this was made possible by some mathamatics described by Benoit Mandelbrot at Yale university check out this description of a a Mandelbrot set:
More technically, the Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded.[1] That is, a complex number, c, is part of the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with z0 = 0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn remains bounded however large n gets.
For example, letting c = 1 gives the sequence 0, 1, 2, 5, 26,…, which tends to infinity. As this sequence is unbounded, 1 is not an element of the Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, c = i (where i is defined as i2 = −1) gives the sequence 0, i, (−1 + i), −i, (−1 + i), −i, ..., which is bounded and so i belongs to the Mandelbrot set.
Well some of you know that I am not a brilliant mathematician but, I would like to be an artist. In the late 90's Wendy and I attended several workshops on Bryce software on the west coast. Ken Musgrave (DOC Mojo) was at one of these as well as Kim Poor from NovaSpace. Check out this site.
http://www.novaspaceart.com/Prints/Giclees/
Since then I have created various landscape images in Bryce, Mojoworld and now Artmatic Voyager.
These programs can be intensly complicated, and molasses slow, but you can create other world visions far beyond most peoples abilities with any hand generated paint media.
The article described software that he had designed which would generate entire planets at random and allow a user to walk about that world, exploring mountains or forests, etc.
All of this was made possible by some mathamatics described by Benoit Mandelbrot at Yale university check out this description of a a Mandelbrot set:
More technically, the Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded.[1] That is, a complex number, c, is part of the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with z0 = 0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn remains bounded however large n gets.
For example, letting c = 1 gives the sequence 0, 1, 2, 5, 26,…, which tends to infinity. As this sequence is unbounded, 1 is not an element of the Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, c = i (where i is defined as i2 = −1) gives the sequence 0, i, (−1 + i), −i, (−1 + i), −i, ..., which is bounded and so i belongs to the Mandelbrot set.
Well some of you know that I am not a brilliant mathematician but, I would like to be an artist. In the late 90's Wendy and I attended several workshops on Bryce software on the west coast. Ken Musgrave (DOC Mojo) was at one of these as well as Kim Poor from NovaSpace. Check out this site.
http://www.novaspaceart.com/Prints/Giclees/
Since then I have created various landscape images in Bryce, Mojoworld and now Artmatic Voyager.
These programs can be intensly complicated, and molasses slow, but you can create other world visions far beyond most peoples abilities with any hand generated paint media.
Comments or questions on my art are welcome (be kind)
The strip of
color below is one generated as a fractal. Since these files are
pure equations the files that generate them are tiny (29K)
