Fractal
Imagery
It
all started quite by accident. I just stumbled into
this whole fractal  imagery
thing. I didn’t even
want a fractal generator; I just wanted to make some
slick 3-d
buttons for a web site. I had purchased versions
of the graphics tools software years before, back when
it
was
called Kai’s Power Tools. It had a simple fractal
generator module back then, but the fractals were
mere equation graphs, nothing more than colored lines
and
circles, no more interesting than the basic “crop
circle” Mandelbrot
shape, and after a couple of hours of seeing the
same basic patterns I got bored with it and never
used the
fractal
generator much after that. Over 10 years later I
purchased what had evolved into Corel
KPT Collection,
(Kai was long gone)
and used the KPT ShapeShifter module to create web
buttons
with a cool 3-D cut glass look & subtle rollover
highlight for my new web site Lake-Sunapee-Living.com.
 I
worked my way thru the other modules in the set, looking
for something else I could use to justify the $89 expense.
Some were very cool: Lightning bolts, Ink Drops, Photo
Goo; and some were for graphics heads only: Blur,
FiberOptix & Lens
Flare. Several modules like Reaction and Pyramid Paint I
still can’t figure out what they do.
There
are two fractal modules: FraxPlorer and FraxFlame II.
FraxPlorer creates Mandelbrot and Julia fractals
and their
variations, and the FraxFlame II module creates fractal
flames, which look more like intricate line tracings
than flames.
The
FraxPlorer module has improved several orders of magnitude
over the older version. I found myself
working
with the fractal
generator for hours on end. The depth and detail
and color variations of the fractal imagery seemed
to be endless. The more I worked
with it
and the more patient and persistent I became
the more I saw in the fractals. It was like a window
on a whole
new universe.
The
turning point came when I began to see the works of some
of the great artists suggested in the fractals.
A splatter
of bubbles reminded me of the glasswork of
Dale Chihuly.
Dense swirls of blue and yellow made me think
of Van Gogh’s
Starry Night. I set my computer at work to use
the fractals as a screensaver, and I would often
return to my desk and
find people had stopped to stare at the image sequences
on my screen.
I
hope you enjoy them as well.
-Lou
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