What we (as fractalists) are doing is something that is referred to by some as "exploring" (or "noodling about" as I like to call it) in parametric hyperspace (a term I think was coined or first used by Ken Musgrave).

"Navigation" can be tricky, as one conscious or errant click of a mouse can transport you into a completely different quadrant.

While the math "under the hood" of our "fractal vehicles" is produced/compiled by earnest, keen, and laboring minds working and wrestling with an almost endless set "rules of predictability, probability and chaos", churning out a vast array of "precision parts" which when combined together create "creativity vehicle" unlike any other.

I have no knowledge of "the math", and consider myself to be like the race car driver, airplane pilot or even the driver of an automobile or any other "vehicle"--or even as a user of the very computer you are now using to read this--and do not concern myself with "how it was made", only with how (and how well) it operates.

And while my "fractal vehicle" is very "rule oriented", out here in parametric hyperspace, where chaos reigns supreme, often "the rule(s)" is/are...that there is/are "no rule(s)"...one must be ready and able to adapt and adjust with the ever changing landscape and often incomprehensible challenges.

As with other "vehicles" (creative ones or otherwise) skill, knowledge, experience AND "vision" are equally important to a successful or satisfactory experience (or outcome).

Some say, "it's all an accident"--to which I reply, "Then why is it that I seem to have so many?" "Is it because I am so 'accident prone'?" There are "accidents"...and there are "happy accidents"--or what is referred to as serendipity. And, "accident" or not...much like life, it's what you do with them or how you react/perceive them that counts. I choose to interpret them as "sources of inspiration".

Make of it what you will.

...literally...

...as for me, it literally represents the essence and reflection of the (human) creative process...

Regards

Bryan