Hi, fellow bloggic nomads!
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned the similarities I see in how I approach the workflows of photography and fractal art. Exploring fractals does have a different challenge for me: I keep finding weird stuff in the fractals. While other folks are stumbling across structures that they then build into the breath-taking pieces that lead to audible “wow”s, I stumble upon the odd, weird and not-particularly-pretty with some regularity. Maybe it’s a quantum-level “the observer affects the outcome” thing, but I suppose it could be called “not understanding the math and trying outrageous numbers,” too. *grin*
Or, I could be projecting, finding what is floating around half-submerged in my thoughts.
For example, at one point in the late 80s, we rescued and gave away more than thirty-five rabbits born of two does and a buck rabbit that some one had dumped nearby. We kept and raised 14 that were medically challenged. As a result, I had rabbits in my thoughts for roughly a decade by the time the last one passed away. A couple years later, I downloaded Fractint and that’s when odd things started showing up, from the fractals. [Inserting tongue in cheek and putting on record of the Twilight Zone theme] I submit here, for your approval, a few pairs of cross-dimensional similarities.
Hershey, a fourth generation from our original dump-ee’s,
sitting on the neighbors’ woodpile. Next to Hershey is a fractal spiral that, explored with much zooming in, changing parameters and altering how it was colored, gave me a rabbit on a rock ledge to the side of the opening of a rocky warren. Continue reading ‘Photographs, fractographs?’

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