FRACTAL ART BY VICKY
Welcome to my gallery! My name is Vicky Brago-Mitchell. These images are based on a new kind of math called fractal geometry, developed in the 1970s and 80s by French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, and are created by repeating simple patterns billions and trillions of times. Until today's fast computers became widely available, only mathematicians had seen fractals; now everyone can enjoy their intricacy and beauty. (For more explanation read Fractal Geometry.)
Programs used are Ultra Fractal, Fractal eXtreme, XenoDream and Chaoscope. If there is post-processing, it was done in Photoshop.
My pictures were shown at the
Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea
(Film: biennale-firenze.mp4, 327 MB) which opened on Saturday, December 3, 2005 at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy. (Cascade is at about 18:18 of the film.) Also at the Agora Gallery in NYC December 15, 2005 - January 10, 2006. I did the cover art for the December 2005 issue of Latin Finance (pdf) magazine. They wanted bluebrown with the colors in Glitter. I tried! Ionic was used by the Wu Chien Shiung Education Foundation in Taiwan to publicize their Science Camp. Shore has been chosen by the Consorzio EINSTEIN, Università del Salento, Gallipoli, Lecce (Italy) to publicize the international conference of physicists Nonlinear Physics, Theory and Experiment, V, June 12-21, 2008.
From physics to chocolates! The Sugarless Company in Australia produced, in May 2008, boxes of delicious sugar-free chocolates, using Violet 2 as the basis of the product design. Clicking on these links will show you the pictures: Rose Dark Chocolate and Violet Dark Chocolate.
A beautiful new book about seashells and other mollusks was published in Russia in October 2007, Наталья Московская:
Раковины мира. История, коллекционирование, искусство
(World of Shells by Nathalie
Moscow), which includes several of my fractals as examples of
shells in art.
A very sweet guy named Don Waterfield is using my pictures as backgrounds for all the pages of his new site AddaByte, which is a treasure trove of information for programmers.
I want to thank Chris Reddy of Cool Hot Links for making a set of 60 icons to download for free: Fractal Icons. Enjoy!
To set any of these as your desktop wallpaper on a PC, click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized picture, then right-click on the picture and select Set as Background. They can be stretched to fit most screen resolutions without a significant loss of quality.
Mac users can save images in their Macintosh HD> Library> Desktop Pictures folder. For very big screens, I can make higher-resolution wallpapers. Small fee. (This doesn't apply to every image here--some of the original files have gotten lost.) Email me for more information: Hi-Res Wallpapers.
The pictures are in chronological order, with the new ones always on the last page.
If you would like to copy a picture and use it in a webpage please ask permission. I'll usually give it, if you promise a credit and link to me. It's not possible to hotlink them. If you would like to license an image for commercial use, please contact me--there's a contact link at the bottom of this page.
Posters and fine art prints are sold by Art.com, AllPosters.com, RedBubble, American Frame ArtShop; and prints, greeting cards, t-shirts, mugs and many other products by CafePress.com and Zazzle.com---these links go to my galleries on each site.
I learned fractal art from Veronika Ketterlin (SophieLerlei) and will be forever in her debt.
More about me? Vicky Drake
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