sharkrey has a point... I can sit at work fiddling with an Apo flame and people come up to me and say, "gee that's awesome", and are all really interested until you say the word "fractal" - then their eyes glaze over and they say "oh mathematics stuff" (I work in IT) and they lose all interest... WHY?? Who cares what's behind some of the amazing art that fractal mathematics can produce? It's the fact that there are some extremely interesting works out there that matters... and the fact that ANYONE can pretty much make their own only doubles the fun... I'm a self-confessed Geek of the Highest Order - so recreating nature with a graphics application on a computer does not appeal to me at all - I can take a photo if I want realism... but I want Abstract... I live for the "not real"... I love pretty colors swirling into each other... I love the randomness of flame fractals, and the sheer beauty of the "true" fractals... ...and a big "stuff you!" to people who pooh-pooh my fractal art... so there ner! I like it - and that's all that really matters, isn't it? T.

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