fractals - re-edited

[Katze]

(yeah...I was so excited that I sent this off without proofing...if you
care to read the revised version, continue...)

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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 its 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
computers, 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 program, and viola! he did, Though you do have to muck with the
equations to change the fractal (not so GUI driven like ultrafractal).

http://www.fractorama.com

I...not being a mathematician on his scale, but a decent one at
least...have 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 as "real art" (whatever that means these days). 

-Katze