Saturday, January 12, 2008

Mathy Art

Check out the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest - gorgeous stuff! (Click each photo to see the large version for detail.) I loved this "Dreamtime Persistence" one especially.


(Via Virginia Postrel)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I liked Stardust best. Is this the same kind of art that Ben did in the picture he gave you?

Sally said...

Mom, Ben's picture had a similar appearance but I do not think his is a fractal.

Wikipedia states that a fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole."

Ben's image has areas that are unique and not represented in the same way.