Fractals of the Week: Project City of Glass [part 2]
I’ve been fooling around with MB3 again on my ongoing project, and here are three more images for this morning. It looks like the glassy look has been achievable with other parameter sets as well as the first file it was accidentally discovered it in, with no exceptions noticed yet.
I’m a bit reluctant to name the images lately, since that interferes with what people might spontaneously see when looking at them — the detrimental effects of preconceived notions on creativity and imagination, though not being a psychologist, I’m not sure how scientifically valid that is as a tested hypothesis.
No matter.
I’m testing exactly which file parameters produce which optical properties, and the answers, when I find them, may prove interesting to discuss in an upcoming installment of this post.
This week’s image theme color is green. Wait a minute…Do I even do weekly theme colors?? No, not really, but I’ll make an exception this week since I’m inexplicably partial to green glassy thingies right now, and those seem the best out of the images generated so far…
…so here are the images…
All images in this post are original works by the author, generated via Mandelbulber using custom parameter sets, and are copyright 2012 Troy Loy
Posted on Saturday, 0:16, September 15, 2012, in Fractal Images and tagged Art, Beauty, Chaos and Fractals, Fractal, Fractal art, Fractals. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
The first one, the green one, looks to me like a small image sliced 100′s of times into thin laminate sheets. The left side looks like the expanded pillar of a building with a fresco carved into it. To the right looks like a carving on the wall behind the pillar, distorted in the slicing. The center foreground looks like it was unfocused in the original picture, perhaps a railing post adornment, as if the photo was originally taken from a mezzanine with an iron rail at its edge.
My personal favorite is the third image, mostly because of the apparent perspective and detail it shows. I think of an ornately masoned tower looked at from close above when I see it. The second looks a bit surreal to me, like the jeweled head of a medieval mace, just a little too gaudy for my taste.
Now that you mentioned your thoughts on the third, that picture suddenly appears when I look at it
I didn’t see that before. The way our brains create interpretive patterns is awesome but sometimes they need a bit of help. I like it.
I like these a lot, esp first and 3rd!! Lots of MB3D’s get posted on DA (DeviantArt), and I can’t recall seeing any with the glassy look before. I like the ever changing functionality of MB3D, but hesitate to try it myself, as I’ve finally achieved, with Apo (and a little UF5), an artistic command that I like. AND it seems MB3D is as addictive as was Apo at the start, and I’m more interested in refining my creativity than learning a whole new application. One day, though…
Thanks for pings, as always. And I like your links here too, (off to the math site)!!
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