Introducing ArtMatic

Welcome to ArtMatic !

ArtMatic is new kind of program, an "Art Synthesizer", which makes it possible for anyone to create breathtakingly vibrant images, psychedelic animations, and even exciting new sounds. ArtMatic combines fractal and fractal-like images, random textures, gradients, displacements maps, and tiles in exciting ways not possible with any other product.

It is easy and fun to use and requires no special skills or knowledge.

ArtMatic can create:

Pictures - an incredible number of stunning pictures can be created during even a short session of a few minutes. Be sure to have enough disk space!
QuickTime Movies - ArtMatic features several animation modes to render high resolution QuickTime movies.
Sounds - Strange, exciting sounds can be automatically generated from ArtMatic's mathematical "structures". Don't worry, no mathematical skills required.

Not only is it just plain fun to watch ArtMatic invent and evolve amazing graphical worlds, it can also be used more seriously to:

- Create background tiles for your web pages
- Design your own flyers and CD covers
- Create custom backgrounds and pictures for the Macintosh desktop
- Create textures and terrain maps for Bryce and backgrounds for Photoshop
- Design pictures to be used as filters or displacement maps in MetaSynth
- Create great animations and sounds for your live performances, Techno parties or art clips.
- Design original fabric and decorative motifs

How does it work?
You don't need to be an experienced graphic designer to achieve amazing results with ArtMatic. Follow the simple steps described in the Getting Started section, and you will be creating ArtMatic images in minutes.

Just choose a structure and click on the Randomize All button (the largest of the three dice) to discover a new picture-generating system. If you want to torture your brain, you can think of each system as being an Nth-dimensional universe where the image you see is a two-dimensional view from a particular point in that universe. Changes of parameter values move you to different locations in this rich universe. You will discover that every picture-generating system can create a vast array of very different images.

With the random path animation button and parameter sliders you can quickly explore the huge parameter space of ArtMatic's systems to find interesting locations. Once you find an interesting spot, you can save the entire system, render some full resolution pictures, and watch the system evolve further.

Behind the scenes, each node of the structure tree is really a mathematical function which is connected to the nodes above and below it. When you roll the dice, ArtMatic automatically (Art-a-Matically, if you will), assigns new functions to each node. You can get inside and tinker with the parameters of the functions using the parameter sliders, or you can roll the dice and let ArtMatic do it for you.

For a quick lesson in using ArtMatic, click here.
To view the system requirements, click here.