Fractal Art Gallery 2014

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This year I decided to delve into the world of the Mandelbulb. After researching many thousands of intriguing two-dimensional images and composing
some 2.5-dimensional scenes for over 25 years, I thought it would be intriguing to start using the newer tools to see what could be accomplished.

Please enjoy these 480 brand new images.

AA Series Overview Part 1 (144 Images) --- 2014 (:50) (times to load on dialup internet -- yours will be probably waaaay faster)
AA Series Overview Part 2 (144 Images) --- 2014 (:50)
AA Series Overview Part 3 (144 Images) --- 2014 (:50)
AA Series Overview Part 4 (48 Images) --- 2014 (:50)

The Mandelbulb phenomena started some five or six years ago and those people who began then have turned out some amazing work...even those
who have followed continue to produce surprisingly masterful mathematical constructions...I am a mere rookie in their camp...

Whereas calculating a two-dimensional Mandelbrot or Julia set involves merely an iterative (repeated) process of complex algebraic manipulations,
the Mandelbulb calculations (though intimately related) involve the rendering of objects in true 3D by determining how light rays hit a fractally-
calculated surface, requiring jackrabbit microprocessing ability. Be sure that the machines used in the early days would be be virtually useless.

Some related calculations shown here also involve IFS, iteration function systems, a method of using certain matrix manipulational/linear algebraic
rules to dictate shapes and new surprises...I began looking at these way back in the 1980's when I first got started...

AA Series 01-09 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 10-18 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 19-27 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 28-36 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 37-45 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 46-54 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 55-63 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 64-72 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 73-81 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 82-90 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 91-99 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 100-108 Thumbnails (36 Images) --- 2014 (:30)
AA Series 109-120 Thumbnails (48 Images) --- 2014 (:30)

Thumbnails are 24-bit JPEG; larger images are normally rendered at a resolution of 2560 x 2560 pixels, well over six million pixels each.
Images within each series are set in pages to be contrasting, yet randomly arranged.

Please understand that these much smaller online size-reduced JPG images cannot show the wonderfully colorful detail present -- the original high resolution images are all
strikingly continuous tones...and way nicer too...

In order to show a bit more detail, thumbnails are now only four to a page, not the usual six to a page and are 324 pixels square, much better than the older 216 pixels square.