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2001

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Early 2001 was when I picked up UF, and while I had been doing fractals for a long time (the first half of the eighties if I may be so bold as to include the crude, pixelated stuff done on my old Sinclair Spectrum) I was immediately in love with the sheer wide range of possibilities this fractal engine offered. UF is really a compiler for a language that was specifically designed to do fractal artwork - pure genius. It took a lot of the experimentation and guesswork out of the sheer creation of a shape and allowed the user to focus on artistic issues instead.

The products of that year are dominated by things I am not necessarily proud of: experimentation with shape ("Silently", "Sheets"), color ("Deceptively Simple", "Tartan"), light ("Lighting", "Coral") and a little texture here or there ("Circulation", "Sufficiently advanced Technology"). I didn't really compose things well yet and spent most of my time mastering the technology of the fractal engine - which left me little room for true artistic expression. I consider only a small minority of these pictures to be "ready for publication".

Notable items generated in this phase include the two "Dragon" images - I played with this same shape some more in the following year and the whole series can be found right here. "Fire and Water" was my first attempt to create something that alludes directly to reality, and I think I didn't do too shabbily. "lighting" was the first image where I tried to combine shape, color and light and create a "complete composition" including a background.

Each of these images has some kind of story attached to it - how and when and why it was created and what was on my mind at the time and what I wanted to do and what I ended up actually doing. But the most blatantly obvious of these is "Blastula", created early october 2001 about seven or eight weeks before the birth of my son Asa. It suddenly occured to me that I had not done anything that referenced my wife's pregnancy, even though that was certainly the condition that dominated our lives in that year. Well, and what you see here is what I came up with - and I think it ain't too shabby for just some math and bits.

"Up and Down" is actually a rework - the original wasn't quite as pretty as this one, but in the middle of 2002 I lost many of my parameter files in a HD crash and in 2005 someone asked me if I could make a higher-resolution render of it and so I re-created it then.

2001 Gallery:

5-Methyl-Ester.jpg

5-Methyl-Ester

Airy.jpg

Airy

Blastula.jpg

Blastula

Broken Plastic.jpg

Broken Plastic

Camo.jpg

Camo

Chainlink.jpg

Chainlink

Chrome Dragon.jpg

Chrome Dragon

Circulation.jpg

Circulation

Classic.jpg

Classic

Coral.jpg

Coral

Cs2.jpg

Cs2

Cs3.jpg

Cs3

Cs4.jpg

Cs4

Dark Mesh.jpg

Dark Mesh

Deceptively Simple.jpg

Deceptively Simple

Diamonds.jpg

Diamonds

Dragon2.jpg

Dragon2

Ex Machina.jpg

Ex Machina

Fire and Water.jpg

Fire and Water

Foam.jpg

Foam

From Space.jpg

From Space

Haphazard Connectivity.jpg

Haphazard Connectivity

Lighting.jpg

Lighting

Lighting2.jpg

Lighting2

Like Clockwork.jpg

Like Clockwork

Many-legged Beast.jpg

Many-legged Beast

Metal.jpg

Metal

Pipe Organ.jpg

Pipe Organ

Sheets.jpg

Sheets

Silently-2.jpg

Silently-2

Silently.jpg

Silently

Spirals2.jpg

Spirals2

Sufficiently Advanced Technology.jpg

Sufficiently Advanced Technology

Synaptic Transmission.jpg

Synaptic Transmission

Tartan.jpg

Tartan

Twisted Metal.jpg

Twisted Metal

UFO Wreckage.jpg

UFO Wreckage

Up and Down.jpg

Up and Down