Fire Wave

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It's a very interesting image... (eye catching) It's got amazing colors, beautiful composition, but what is it??? What was it u were photographing? It reminds me of a "nautilus?", gives me the impresion of something derived from the fractal theory or something like that? Best regards

Ok, so they ARE fractals.. :) I just went into your profile, should have done my homework before asking so many questions! Still, can't figure out what is the object being photographed, are they computer generated?... By the way, I am in love with your images! :)

 

Claudia

It's pretty, but did anything actually get PHOTOGRAPHED here? I doubt it. I'm a software engineer, by the way, and any of us, using the proper software, could create dozens of these things, post them, and get them critiqued, however there is no photography involved. It's a manufactured image, which is a whole different concept.

 

My guess is there was some photoshop involved to create some of the fuzzy parts.

Excelente imagen de gran belleza, perfecta luz y color, gran encuadre y una magnifica composicion, saludos cordiales Gordon.

it looks more like a calculated fractal mangled in PS - or can you share your secrets? cheers alex

 

I should have read the name of the folder first :-)

What software did us used for calculating the fractal?

for stopping by.

 

Dave, I also am a software engineer(for over 20 years). Everything you said about software and manufactured image is correct. That is why it is in the abstract section and my directory is entitled Fractals. This is not a photograph of anything.

 

The software is Vchira(http://www.digitaldebs.com/vchira.html) and is freeware. Once you get the hang of it you can do some pretty cool things. I have been selling quite a few of these on stock sites and having fun with them. It is sort of a fun break to the camera from time to time. Other fractal generators that I fool with are Apophysis and Tierazon. Try them too.

 

Have a nice day all.

Thanks for the info , Gordon :)

I agree its an XLNT!!! image and a pleasure to view.

The possibilities of this technique are endless!

Marvellous creation, I like it.

 

Regards

Thanks Gordon, I didnt mean to sound so heavy-handed. It really is beautiful, fractal software has come a long way.

If it is not a photo at all, why is it at photo.net?

This topic comes up over and over again, and it seems rather silly to me. What should and shouldn't be on photo.net? Would it be OK if Gordon produced this on his computer and then took a picture of the image on his monitor with an SLR? Then it would be a real photo, right? And then that would make it OK to post on PHOTO.net, right?

 

Truth is, I don't really care what you post as long as your intent is to produce good, honest artwork, and you truly want others to appreciate and critique your post. I don't care if it's film, digital, polaroid transfer, or fingerpaint. If your intent is to produce art and be a constructive member of the photo.net community, then you've got my vote. Gordon has my vote.

The idea of taking photo of computer monitor is really silly - I rather watch this completely computer generated shot. This is a matter of personal taste - an image that does not start with a photo, does not even use a camera and completely made out of software should not be called a photograph - I dont even call it digital manipulation. I am probably very silly

If we are at photo.net, please don?t blaspheme, with silly software children games!

there are serious experimented photografers with lots of years of work and studies who are thru artists.

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This picture is simply stupendous.

Show me porn and I'll agree with Arnab that it should not be part of this site.

Show me beauty...I'll watch it.

That is photo.net's mission, or part of it, isn't it?

Whether it has been created from math or reality does not matter.

One could argue that mastering a software and its subtelties is a lot more challenging than pressing a button but that would be silly since photography takes a lot more than pointing and shooting.

I am very thankful to Gordon for indicating a software to us.I have spent the past week enthralled with this exploration. People who do not understand that a mathematically mapped universe IS reality (just as our visual world is) owe to imagine how they would perceive the world if our eyes would have receptors ranging from radio waves to gamma rays and all other pressure variations (sound,etc..) It's impossible to imagine except for infra reds and uv's maybe (that is one minuscule spectrum)

If your eyes had the power to see everything, the fractal above would be the closest thing to a "real" photograph you would ever get.

A photo is a 2 dimensional representation taken from a machine, not by human receptors...a painting requires no machine at all except a brush and some paint. Maybe paintings should be allowed on photo.net ?

Thank you Gordon.

thats all fine and well but what this is, is a computer-age version of a spirograph: any one of us could learn how to churn out truckloads of this stuff with 30 minutes worth of training (*YES* you could, trust me, even if you've never touched a computer before, and obviously you have or you wouldnt be here. you push a button and out pops one of these. a monkey could do it.)

Hi, I am Wilbur (my photo is included). The other day Gordon was out playing with that pigeon that lives on his head, by the way I hate that bird, and, well, there was no one at the computer so, ah.

 

Anyway there was this program up and I played with it and this fractal thingy is the result. Gordon told me he was going to put it up on photo.net and prove to me that I didn't have any ability as an artist.

 

I am sorry.

I gotta love a good sense of humor...

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,

And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that Id said.

Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,

Oh, if I' d only seen that the joke was on me.

This is one of my favorites of your fratals. I also enjoyed reading the above dialogue concerning fractals; I can only add how much joy I have experienced while creating fractals. When I was ill and unable to go outside to photograph, I would often escape to the wonderful world of fractals. A fractal is to a photograph as the atom is to the universe...as a dream is to reality. It seems that the creative processs requires an awareness of both worlds... IMHO. Thank you for sharing this creative process with us. Blessings from the wonderful world of fractals, Rebekah B.