The way I see it, there's a lot more creativity in fractal art than a lot of 'non-fractalists'  and also some fractalists believe. Everyone has heard the butterfly flapping its wings in China causing a hurricane in Cancun (or where ever) thing. It has to do with chaos when there are many variables (like 3!). Things are so unpredictable but they are still not random. Heck, total randomness is more predictable. Anyway, when we modify parameters and make hundreds, or even thousands, of decisions along the way we are truely creating something that is unique. It may look a lot like a many others but it's not. It's a lot like people's faces. To another race we all pretty much look the same, just as other races tend to look the same to us (no matter what race we are). But I haven't see too many people that look like me - poor bastard if he does.

But what I am getting to, if anyone is still reading ... yawn, is that with every little decision we make (a lot of it is subconscious) we are imbibing our creation with what we are at the time. Maybe just a little bit; it may be just a flap of a butterfly wing but it definitely has an effect on the final 'piece' (I like your reasoning in this, Rick).

Keep flappin',

Tim