fractals

[Katze]

Adana Robinson wrote:

> I am a devotee of words, and find all forms of math incomprehensible and
> useless; but I did find a fractal program ( www.ultrafractal.com ) which
> uses math to create beautiful art.  The best thing is that you don't have to
> know any math in order to use the program!
> 

Ooooh!! I'm glad someone else brought this up. I was having a hard time
figuring out how to tell folks that math does have it's uses. For one it
teaches method and logic, which do come in handy in the real life, even
if number crunching doesn't always.

Anyway...My husband was a math major in college and ended up going into
computer, cause he didn't want to be teacher. About a year into our
marriage (5 years now) he wanted to see if he could write his own
fractal porgram, and viola! he did. Though you do have to muck with the
euquations to change the fractal (not so GUI driven).

http://www.fractorama.com

Me...not being a mathematicican on his scale, but a decent one at
least...has found a use for his program too. I have an art background,
and we've combined out talents to create fractals that I print out and
frame and "real art" (whatever that means these days). 

-Katze