What is fractal art for you?

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I guess i got an apology to make, beause this was not a matter i took seriously till this week, and, i guess, just got a bunch of things to re-consider. Well, better late than never :dummy:

One characteristic of fractal art is that is fairly reproduceable.

A real master with deep knowledge of fractal software can, just from looking at a piece, find out how it was made, and re-create it. It is actually amazing, and, a while ago, I followed with quite a lot of interest, the "duel" between FractalDesire and zy0rg, when they both tried - and succeeded - in reproducing each other`s artworks.

Grand bipolar by FractalDesire Corrupted by zy0rg

and then,

Twisted by zy0rg Stolen from the stealer by FractalDesire

Generous people share parameters and allow other people to tweak them or just study them and learn. For example, the longest fractal pong on deviantART, by Undead-Academy and batjorge

Alien Worlds -Pong544 by Undead-Academy Heart Attempt - Pong 555 by batjorge

But there are also sad things about all this. I do not mean art theft, but rather certain very popular universal solutions.

For example, a great and popular fractal artist releases a tutorial, with fairly precise indications of how a certain piece was created. Many people rush to try it, and not of them bother about trying to create something truly unique and personal, and rather just follow the tutorial without changing anything. Well, maybe pick a different gradient.

Scripts. To be honest, its something i also used to do when i just started fractalling (and back in 2007 or so scrpits were THE thing :blush:). Someone releases a script - or just shares cool params and people use the *make flame into script button* - and everybody starts using it. One click of mouse, and yay, you just got a cool looking flame in your favourite style. Easy, isn`t it?

All sorts of "easy things". You want your flame to look cool? No, do not worry about spending a day trying out different gradients and imaging settings. Just download a image editing software and click a button. Run a script. Follow a tutorial without adding anything and experimenting with different possibilities for hours. Or don't even bother, make your fractal software pop a random and render it.

So, this is a question to all fractal artists. What is fractal art for you? What is art for you?

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AaronCazzola's avatar
Visualisation of mathematical formulas which are created looking at the universe around us, hence i think is the visual representation of the human attempt into putting nature into numbers.

In regards of sharing params, i personally think that the fun and beauty of fractal art is the actual trial and error and that sense of controlled randomness that you get when changing params. Therefore i MUCH prefer having a discussion with somebody about formulas and then go do something unique on my own than getting the params and try to change them. I personally learn more discussing with people than studying a pre made code.

Cheers