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| 'Its life Jim but not as we know it' - surreal digital imagery - George Roberts April 2024 |
I really should stop messing around with fractals and astronomy in the digital domain.
This year, I must get back to doing some serious analogue drawing, printing and painting because once I get the turps out I really enjoy it.. The modern world is just so full of easy-peasy distractions! Having said that I reckon Max Ernst would have loved Mandel Bulb software and 'pooters' in general.
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| 'Rhino on the Square' - digital art - George Roberts, April 2024 Credit: Incendia Next software and Affinity Photo2 |
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| 'Captain Nemo dives again' -digital art George Roberts March 2024. |
The Nautilus both extant and extinct, are characterized by involute or more or less convolute shells that are generally smooth, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, straight to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, generally central siphuncle. Having survived relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, nautiluses represent the only living members of the subclass Nautiloidea, and are often considered "living fossils" -Wikipedia
The shells follow the mathematics of a logarithmic curve. All but one of the above were generated as fractals created in the software INCENDIA.
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| 'Spring' digital art by George Roberts March 2024 INCENDIA software. |
"Thorns and briars grow around the Castle, and soon it is almost invisible and nearly forgotten. A passing Prince, and his father the King hear of the legend of “The Sleeping Beauty”, and Prince Florimond declares he will rescue her from her sleep"
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| 'Seeds and ferns' - digital painting by George Roberts using INCENDIA fractal software and Affinity Photo2 |
The infinitely recursive universe of fractals, provides a multiplicity of brushes, colours, textures and lighting for the digital artist to explore. This is such a surprising journey full of wonderful artistic and unconsidered events at all possible scales.
The ancient dragon swallows it’s scary, scaly tail
between
two mirrors parallel and recursive bound.
The artist daubs a painterly fairy tale,
between
two dimensions and with marks on gesso ground.
All protagonists and time
await an unexpected and infrequent visitation,
which in itself will announce an act of creation.
George Roberts
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| 'Fractal blossom' - digital painting George Roberts March 2024 |
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| 'Tardigrade' digital painting - George Roberts March 2024 |
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| 'It's life Jim but not as we know it' - digital painting George Roberts March 2024 |
These images were constructed and rendered using the mathematics of fractals and the excellent and powerful freeware INCENDIA and Mandelbulb 3d. Many thanks to Prof GP for recommending this software. The above images were finally composed using Affinity Photo 2 software.
All fractals show some self-similarity. If you look ever closer into the details of a fractal, you observe multiple replicas of the whole.
Fractals can often be seen in nature. A fern is a classic example, with each of the branches coming off the main stem being similar to the entire frond. They are self-similar to the original but on a smaller scale.
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These self-similar patterns are the result of a simple equation or mathematical statement. You create a fractal algorithm by repeating this equation through a feedback loop. This process is called iteration with the results of one iteration forming the input value for the next.
The patterns created by these algorithms often have fractal dimensions that are not whole numbers. Fractal dimension is a measure of shape complexity. Fractals are also recursive irrespective of scale - repeating themselves endlessly.
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| 'Salvador Dali in the 3rd Person' digital painting by George Roberts March 2024 The image was created using Mandelbulb 3d and Affinity Photo 2 software. |
In memory of my university flat mate Paul, who had tea with Dali in his surreal garden with the giraffe in Spain many moons ago.
The longer I live the more surreal the world in which I live becomes - here's to you Paul and Salvador!
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