While it may look like it took a painstakingly long time to create fractal art, it didn't. This art medium is perfect for the not so perfectly creative with an eye for beauty. In many ways, its a lot like photography- you don't exactly create as much as capture the beauty that is already there. As I have stated before, I'm using a free program called Tierazon. It's taken me a little while to get used to it. Some of my first images I made silly mistakes like not saving them at a high enough resolution to use on anything more than a postage stamp, but there's an online tutorial that walked me through most of the controls and after that it just takes some time and experience to get the hang of it.
While it is a fairly easy artistic niche to enter, I do believe that fractal art should come with a warning attached. It is addictive! When you stare at a computer screen constantly zooming in, re-sizing, filtering, and capturing images over and over again, the concept seeps into your daily life functioning. For example, the other day, I was walking up a set of marble stairs. The marble had a very tiny design on it and in my mind I wished I could "zoom in" to see it more clearly, slightly change the colors, and save. I know that sounds silly, but it happens a lot. I saw a tree the other day and it reminded me of one of the fractals I had been working on. I wondered if I got close enough if I could see the fractal repeat itself. In many ways though, this is a big blessing- it allows me to appreciate the beauty in nature more and because the math behind fractal art is natural math, you see it everywhere!
Personally, I think that every artist could hone their "eye" for art by utilizing fractals. I've been amazed at how it has impacted my life in such a short amount of time!
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