As long as nobody defines what a fractal is we will never have a successful decision.

• When I create a red square on a black background with UF, then this definitely NO fractal.
• When I create a very nice geometric design with UF - again, no fractal but an algorithmically created image content.
• When I zoom into the outer regions of a Julia set and leave the fractal borders and spirals - again no fractal is seen there.
  The outsides of a Mandelbrot set or a Julia set behave like a pixel formula - one iteration then the calculation is bailing out...
• A spiral made by a trap colouring often looses self-similarity and scale invariance, because you can zoom into a branch part and do not see infinite repetition of patterns any longer - even such a spiral might be no fractal.

So far this kind of images is allowed in this gallery. I LOVE to see images generated with fractal generators. I seldom visit the Mixed Media gallery. I do not mind KPT Materializer or effects from Painter on fractals. Images from UF or other generators are my interest. I'd like to see them in one place, not in ten. I like to be inspired - not only by infinite spirals but also by Gnarls (often no fractals either!).
So IMHO we should concentrate on the software and not on the results only. Andreas

Message edited on: 10/06/2004 02:28

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