Tom Rathborne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are into fractals, huh?
Yes, in part, but not in a conventional way. I'm interested in working at
the boundary between mathematical and representational art, and in
particular in finding new ways to use mathematics to transform
representation. This is in contrast to other fractal software I've seen
that either uses mathematics to create representation, e.g., IFSCompose, or
that never intends to create other other than mathematical art, e.g.,
FractalExplorer. My Mandelbrot Invert plug-ins apply the Mandelbrot set
to recolor an existing image, which may have been representational, leaving
the existing image still visible at the end. You can view other examples
of digital art I've created by writing and applying mathematical algorithms
to transform representation, in this case my own scanned, conventional,
figurative paintings, at the gallery page at my web site,
http://www.stanschwartzmeta-arts.com/art.html. My digital art
collections are accessible from the bottom of the scrolling thumbnails
frame at the left side of the page. These include applying linear affine
transformations through IFS or MRCM algorithms (another kind of fractal) to
repeatedly rescale, translate, rotate, and reflect arbitrary images into
self-similar, fractal representations of themselves. Another example is
applying displacements derived from strange attractor time series equations
(Hnon, Lorentz, and Rossler) to stretch images. Though the behavior of
these difference or differential equations is chaotic (based on parameter
settings), I've found that if I keep close enough to the starting point (in
terms of iterations) then the displacements are small eough that output
images are still recognizable as a transformed versions of the input, which
I find aesthetically pleasing. I may or may not rewrite these and other
image transformation algorithms I develop into GIMP plug-ins, depending on
how my career and time availability goes. I am in the process of
undergoing a career change from expert systems programmer to conventional
artist to attempting to find work as a full-time graphics algorithm
designer/computational artist.
Note that I'm not trying to put down other kinds of mathematical art. My
interest is in defining a niche for myself that best reflects my background
(both artistic and mathematical), personality and interests. I'd also like
to mention that my Penn address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], is a rarely
attended legacy account and that I prefer receiving mail at my new address,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I would have posted from there, but
xcf.berkeley.edu bounced my messages as being unable to find my client
host. I assure you it exists.
Thanks and take care,
Stan Schwartz
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