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"The Fractal Gallery" by Louis Markoya
The scientific acceptance, and study of Chaos shall in the future (and present
for some) be looked at as revolutionary, astounding and profound. Not unlike
the teachings of far eastern Philosophy, Chaos is a thread which binds all
together, and makes much of nature and life understandable, even better,
defined. Weather, the eye of Jupiter, liquid turbulence and even human life
experiences can be comfortably understood and scientifically explained by chaos
and its strange attractors. As the study of Chaos becomes more acceptable and
the realm of particle physics falls to its weightiness the true meaning of the
beauty and attraction to fractals will be better understood. It is within the
whorls of these fractals, on the edge of the Mandelbrot set, Julia set and
other mathematic figures, that Angels and fairies reside. With this spirit in
mind I have created the picture "The Fractal Gallery". I have used fractals in
several of my works before but in this one pay Homage to them. The Fractal
Gallery is a Turbo Silver raytrace, untouched by any other program except to
add the name. However to create the picture I utilized several other programs.
The Walls, floor, ceiling, pictures and spheres have all been mapped with
fractals generated with HAMandel, a 256 color HAM fractal generator from
MegadeM. In the glass case on the marble stand is a Serpinski gasket, formed
with Analytic Art, brought into silver as a stencil, then mapped as a brush and
given the characteristic of a lamp, which causes the green hued glows about it.
The Koch snowflakes on the back wall are 3D objects. The columns and pedestal
are wrapped in marble and the slight reflection of the floor and back walls is
created by using the glossy feature. Louis Markoya is an engineer independently
experimenting as a computer artist. His fine art background includes several
one man shows and an apprenticeship with Salvador Dali.