Pink Ant

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Pink Ant

c. 2007 I think this piece is more like the fractals I was first attracted to. A fractal is a specific shape that is repeated over and over in the image in different positions and different sizes. The most familiar of these is the Mandelbrot set. This has that beautiful recursive pattern. Featured, of course, with a little PhotoShop Enhancement.

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thea walstra

thea walstra 18 Nov 2007

Interesting and very beautiful Minnie

Minnie Shuler
Artist Reply: Thanks so much for your comment, thea.
Olga van Dijk

Olga van Dijk 18 Nov 2007

Thanks for the explanation.. I never knew this... It's a beauty!--

Minnie Shuler
Artist Reply: Thanks so very much, Olga. Your comment is very welcome and appreciated.
Emily Reed

Emily Reed 17 Nov 2007

So really cool, very cool!!

Minnie Shuler
Artist Reply: Thanks, Emily. I appreciate your perspective always.
Michael Forbus

Michael Forbus 17 Nov 2007

Minnie, very fascinating and beautiful. Great fractal and I love that the equations have names after the inventors of the factors. Really great piece of work. Michael

Minnie Shuler
Artist Reply: Yes. They deserve to have them named after them. Mandelbrot drove himself insane with his obsession with a fractal set. He did recover but it has been tremendous work on the part of many people behind the scenes to give us the theory and the technology to do any kind of computer art. The fractal inguinity and Chaos Theory underlie the fantastic 3D (and 2D) graphics we so richly enjoy. When I was an undergraduate, we worked with a computer that filled the whole basement. You punched your stack of cards, left them at a window and came back in a day or two for your results. In graduate school I worked with Dr. E. B. Miles who was using a personal computer to plot low resolution function patterns. He made a calender with 12 of his best patterns. It was a hot item, got lots of attention. The math department paid for it to be published. The programmers were just beginning to harness the brave new world of color graphics.