I had an interesting thing happen a few weeks ago. I was invited to a picnic where there were around 40 30-something people and a small number of children and another number of 50-somethings. I took a handful of my fractals, simply printed out on standard copy paper with a color laser-jet printer. I was careful to take a wide variety of shapes, colors, types. These were pretty 'cool' folks and I got lots of 'oooooohs' and 'ahhhhhhs', which felt pretty good, lol. The oddest thing is, the flames were invariably singled out as 'really interesting' or 'so organic'. They definitely drew more comments than all the other images, even tho several people sorted the stack so that they could look at a number of the images a second time...and rarely included the flames in that stack. None of the group was very knowledgable about fractals in any way, tho most had heard of them, but didn't know how they were made. I don't know if this means anything or not, but I found it quite interesting.

Fractals will always amaze me!