This is the first fractal artwork I made using UF3. It kind of looks like an album cover. I guess it is a sunglasses-wearing extra-terrestrial. The body is a Mandelbrot-form Nova fractal to which the orbit traps outside coloring algorithm has been applied. The afro is a Magnet Mandelbrot. The background, made from Newton fractals, tries to mimic the abstract wavy ribbons that you sometimes see in the backgrounds of funk music videos. An iteration-based orbit traps outside coloring algorithm using wave trap shapes worked well. The jagged edges of the alien's feet could be cleats, or perhaps the worn-out cuffs of bellbottom jeans.

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- W.Wu, 7/29/2003 4:55PM

My original intention with this piece was to imitate what I think is "traditional-looking" fractal art, by superimposing several differently colored snapshots of a spiral-like fractal. However, I ended up deciding that my first layer looked good enough to stand alone. It's a Julia fractal. I think the bright white spiral contrasts nicely with the dark, stone-like topography that curls around it.

- W.Wu, 7/31/2003 10:36PM

After playing with a Mandelbrot fractal for a while, I discovered the rough outline of a stem and flower pattern, motivating me to make the above.

Self-similarity patterns: The blue petal head has grooves which whirlpool infinitely into two vertigo-like drains. The leaves also have interesting patterns; check out these zoom-ins to see four-leaf groups growing inside four-leaf groups ad infinitum.

Blue roses do not naturally exist. They can only be bred artifically, by cultivating white rose buds in a blue pigment that eventually permeates the petals. Consequently, perhaps a blue rose is a good symbol for fractal art, which creates nature-like phenomena through creative human intervention.

- W.Wu, 8/3/2003 7:59PM