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The images you will see are all the result of the manipulation of numbers by
computers and all have an infinite level of detail available. Often they are
'high magnification' images discovered by zooming into what may at first appear
to be a somewhat dull looking shape. Closer inspection reveals fuzzy looking
areas which, when zoomed into, reveal ever more detailed levels of construction.
The job of the fractal artist is to find a formula, an area within that formula
, and a suitable colour scheme that will produce an image of beauty. No mean
task!
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In this gallery each artist has their own page featuring some images, these are displayed in thumbnail form but are also available at 648x480 resolution. It's well worth taking a look at these higher resolution images as it is in the nature of a fractal that the beauty is held in the detail. In fact many fractal fanatics^H^H^H^H^H^H artists are accustomed to working at resolutions of up to 1600x1200.
You may view the fractals at higher resolution by storing the thumbnails on disk (right-click if using netscape) then loading them into fractint. Since each thumbnail also includes data on what fractal formula was used and what parameters were set, fractint can re-generate the image. You'll need to turn off the view window mode though to get a full screen high resolution image generated.
You can give feedback on the images by giving them a score, these will be added up regularly and used to derive a top ten images page and feedback to the artists. The artists pages will be regularly updated when new images are produced so keep on looking in there!
As the gallery has only just started there haven't been enough votes entered for any sorting so don't bother looking for the top ten page yet!
| Click name to enter their room in the gallery | The most popular image from this artist so far | More about the artist |
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Lee Skinner |
Lee is acknowleged as a master of fractint manipulation with a prolific output | |
Brian Jones |
Brian has adapted the work of other formula writers in an innovative fashion | |
Caren Park |
A variety of remarkable images with good colouring | |
Stuart Lees |
Stuart started to work with xfractint on the amiga | |
Robin Bussell |
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Mostly high magnification mandlebrot set zooms from the creator of this gallery |
Spanky!
The original fractal website run by Noel Giffin and official home of fractint
on the web. Loads of stuff here including the entire fractint help documentation
in html, ports of fractint to other systems, links to interactive fractal
explorers, informative documents and much much more... A must for serious fractal
devotees.
Fracxtra
by Dan Goldwater is a collection of colour maps, par files, formulae,
utilities and other good things to augment your fractint experience... highly
recommended. Due to the large amount of good stuff enclosed this is a big file
(approx 1.3 Mb) but well worth it!
There is also a copy of fracxtra here for european
viewers.
In addition there is the eye-candy ring, these sites are all dedicated to computer generated graphics of many types, ray-tracing, more fractals, hypnotic pattern generators.... all sorts!
| The Eye-Candy Ring |
Robin Bussell |