Johnny Appleseed loves nautili, so stumbling across this made him go awwwww!

When he discovered what a prolific fractalizer Vicky is, he went OOOOOOH!

Who was that masked appleseed sower? Nice finds, maizey. Haven't had time to update my fractal library in quite a while. The Internet grows too fast to keep up.

Fractal Experience boasts of having 1042 images on their site. I paged through several to see that there is definitely some quality work here. They even have hundreds of wallpapers for mobile phones free fore the taking.

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A truly fantastic and psychedelic beauty is Ambiquity, a fractal video by Michel Gingras. The video takes awhile to load, but it's definitely worth the wait. Be sure to scroll down the page to and click on one of the pictures on the right to see all of his Flickr pictures too.

(Hint: Start the video then immediately press pause, wait and wait and wait until the gray bar loads completely. Click on the full screen icon in the lower right corner. When in full screen view, press play. Wow!)

Think spirograph on steroids, booze and PCP. There's no settings or on/off button, so if you like a picture, you have under a millisecond to hit Print Screen to save it. Totally useless, but something a little kid might stare at for a few minutes - ColorFantasy

Here's another fractal timesuck (it scored well on Newgrounds) called Line Art.

Johnny Appleseed's been wandering around GAOTD trying to figure out where to sow an image sniffing seed.
No brainer, right? It should go on the Search Engine thread; but, it's a simple little thing that isn't very discriminating. (i.e., doesn't have the sophisticated winnowing options of Google Image Search) and it's hosted on a tempermental server... we all know how off-putting tempermental servers can be.
So, as I'm enamored with fractals, here IT is with an appropriate starter term already thawed for your convenience.

I just happened across a huge list of links to fractal sites. I checked for dead links and these are what I was left with. I don't think that any of these are duplicates of what is already listed. I could be wrong. :)

Art of Fractal - Gallery
Gedeon's Fractal Galleries
Spanky Fractals
Fractal Wisdom
Ken Keller
Fractal Judy
Mandelbrot Explorer
Internet Fractal Database
Chaos Metalink
Fractal Recursions

Welcome back Johnny, now I understand your absence,
being on these trips, let you forget us - hm ?
Thanks for sharing - well needed !

Johnny Appleseed, back for just a mo (well, maybe 2 mo's) with a handful of animated flowering seeds - http://www.metacafe.com/tags/fractal/

I played around with Bomb some more the other day. I loaded a few of my own gif files into the image library, turned on some old instrumental surf music and let the bomb run. I experimented with some of the keyboard inputs to see what would develop. The program allows screen shots to be dumped into a directory named "Dribble" by pressing the "=" key. It's a bit hit or miss as to what you will get because of ever-changing display. The screen shots are saved with a .ppm file extension. I uses the freeware IfanView to do a batch conversion to .jpg format.

BTW - I guess this is a fractal program, as it unzips into a directory named "Fractal Bomb".

Here is the slideshow of my Bomb screenshots. I did not have a chance to cull these to get rid of the really ugly pics.

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Note: If you decide to download Bomb be aware that it took a long time to unzip the files. I thought Windows Extraction Wizard had froze the first time I installed it, so I aborted. I had the program unzipped and was running it. But upon further investigation, I realized that I didn't have all of the files in the image library. I unzipped it again, rewriting the prior files and allowing it to finish the unzipping of the remaining files.

Looks interesting, please spare it for me until tomorrow.
today we'll travel north to meet Lenni (3y) - our grandson - YIPPPIIIIEE

Has anyone tried BOMB yet? It is a really old program but I got it to work on Windows XP. Today, I turned on some music, started it in auto mode then started playing with the simple controls. I found that adjusting the audio levels (up & down arrows) made quite a difference to the display. I'm going to load some of my own gif files to the image library to see what that will produce. Just to give you an idea of what it can do, I've attached a review and screen shots from the site. It's much more interesting than the screen shots because the images are constantly evolving while it's running.

http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog7/bomb.htm
http://draves.org/bomb/1/
http://draves.org/bomb/4/
http://draves.org/bomb/5/
http://draves.org/bomb/7/
http://draves.org/bomb/9/

OMG! I downloaded BOMB today and have been playing with it for hours. Not exactly fractals, but a great eye-candy toy. Read the manual for keyboard controls or start any music source then start bomb and let the show begin.

Bomb is a visual-musical instrument. It uses alife, and is alife. It runs on your PC and produces animated organic graphics in response to the keyboard, audio music, or on its own. You can download it from this web site, and run it on your PC.

http://draves.org/bomb/

Hi RuneSage, this discovery looks really exciting - I need some time to explore it (please explore yahoo)
graylox

Only a little link to this great thread - something for math and fractal friends :

http://www.jgiesen.de/ChaosSpiel/ChaosEnglish.html

Johnny Appleseed casts another free art-related download into the fertile GAOTD orchard -

http://contextfreeart.org/
http://contextfree.lazymoon.org/

Hmmm, seems to be quite a few CONTEXTFREE Gallerias out there in Internetland.

Enjoy. "Johnny" needs dinner and a movie.

This thread seems a really good one to link with the wallpaper thread I just started. Fancy making a jigsaw of some of these images as the jigsaw giveaway will take these images via the load command.

Here's the link to the Wallpaper thread;

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2650?replies=1

WR

can it be, that I found a new one ? :

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/

Sorry ppl., I'm lost for the rest of my night in this link - did you see all the dragons and the faeries? and the chaos animations? and...

I think, this pic fits to my Aurora Borealis post on the "Maintenance" thread:

http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/wallpaper.php?u_i=123&i_i=445&best=true&srt=5

Thanks Rune, for this exciting link! And I thought, I had enough links for every circumstance. Where can I download a new computer with the power to handle the 3D stuff? Need a job!
graylox

Keeping a thread alive... or hijacking it? You be the judge. This isn't a fractals link, it's digital art wallpaper.

I'd caption this sample -
"Sigh, people are getting so lazy, I gotta come up with ideas myself!"
or perhaps -
"The Lightbulb Faerie... where bright ideas really come from."
http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/wallpaper.php?u_i=97&i_i=357&best=true&srt=2

Johnny Appleseed's a tricky little devil... try clicking on the 2nd and 3rd buttons in the top navbar to see if there's any FREE ART or MODELING SOFTWARE you might enjoy downloading. :-)

Thanks Mario, I've added the link to the OP.

Hello,

The Fractint link given above seems dead.

I found one here that seems to be the latest and that is for Win32. I remember this one from way back.
I must confess that fractals and chaos were responsible for changing Molecular Biology undergrad to Applied Math graduate studies back in 93.

-Mario

Well, I dug out what I could see by email address changes, my over 10 year old Tech Republic sign on info (and now had to give them my phone number!!) so I was able to d/l Fractal Wallpaper. Really cool! I was tempted to set it to change the wallpaper every minute, but that may cause my system to cough so left it at 60 minutes. Til I get antsy and want to see all the artwork, anyway.
Thanks for ALL the links!

Peace

it's the holidays. Have another
http://www.tonytooth.co.uk/page12.html
3 fractal landscape EXEs

THEN, use the Next Page link at the bottom a couple of times for more goodies.

Wow, Vamp, thanks very much. I've been a member of techrepub for a while, but had to disable their email push service, couldn't keep up reading their security and programming articles. Never thought to use [fractals] as a search term there. Will definitely try that download ... but fear it could spell disaster. I'm likely to spend way too much time hitting SHOW DESKTOP just to see the latest eyecandy it's created.

There are some other links on that page that look promising, too. I seem to recall coming across a fractal wallpaper appl a long time ago, but it isn't in my compendium. Guess it either wasn't freeware or my old PC wasn't up to the challenge of cranking out mandlebrots AND running Photoshop and Dragon simultaneously.

If you and hamstergirl ever combine forces, we're going to be in deep pellet!

Just ran across this. Thought it might interest you fractal fans.

Download here: http://software.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?docid=213470&tag=nl.e072

"Overview: Fractal Wallpaper is a program that creates fractals in real time and sets them as your wallpaper. You can run the program and let it create pictures in time intervals you define. All the fractals that the program creates are made in real time. Version 1.1 optimized fractal creation, changed color palette, and fixed the LoadonStartup bug.

Format: Software | Size: 427KB | Date: Oct 2005 | Version: 1.1 | System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server | License: Free "

@RM you wrote: Musta been asleep at the switch to miss this FREE offer last year! If FreewareFan ever sees this offer come along again, I hope he posts it!
http://www.aiostudents.com/category/school/game-art-and-design/

I put it on my watch list, just for you. If it comes round again, you can rest assured that I will alert you, and all members here, of the celebration! :-)

Graylox, GMTA (great minds think alike)

You must have missed the URL I captioned - "Fractal Taffy" that lead to the same Stuttgart site. FWIW, there are several peculiar galleries there, and all remind me of taffy, or what bubble gum looks like when a bored secretary twirls it around her finger, or like a lump of playdoh the kids dropped into granny's KitchenAid mixer when she wasn't looking. Here's another page -
http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/phy11733/sculpidx_e.html

I googlefish for awesome surreal/abstract 3D galleries created by those who know their way around BRYCE, 3DMax and POVRayTrace landscape and texture modeling. -
http://www.galerie-bryce.com/image_bryce/galerie-7.html
http://www.povray.org/
http://fraktali.849pm.com/gallery/bryce/index.htm
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3676004#227333539
http://www.lovein.com/Jeffsart.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72636873@N00/
http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/userg/images/1171708497.shtml
http://www.museumofdigitalarts.com/guests.htm
http://www.webshots.com/explains/entertainment/mood.html
http://acme-wallpaper.com/visualparadox/scenic-1.htm
http://www.janis-purucker.de/3dgal.htm#fantasie

Musta been asleep at the switch to miss this FREE offer last year! If FreewareFan ever sees this offer come along again, I hope he posts it!
http://www.aiostudents.com/category/school/game-art-and-design/

I get the impression Blender is oriented more towards the "poser" end of modeling, and while it's all greek to me, the results seem kinda "flat" compared to Bryce & POVRayTrace. http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/

Personally, I'd be happy to master a few advanced Photoshop techniques before I die, but I still take pregnant pauses to bang my head against the monitor in order to remember where the bloody Show Brushes command is hiding. Software goodies such as Twisted Brush are gathering dust. When it comes to creating art, this is more my speed - http://www.becomeanmm.com/

PS - If you come across any good FREE photoshop edges sites or plug-ins, please lemme know.

White Wabbit -
Sorry about your accident, but I'll pit my dysfunctional biorhythm against yours anyday and give you a head start to compensate for the morphine drip. Been on 28+ hour days since the college years.

Regards Deadheads, looks like you've a few sites to listen to - http://tinyurl.com/ytqaml

FYI- I downloaded SKYPE last year, but never found anyone else who admitted to using it or expressed any desire to use it. Seems everyone but me has fallen under the spell of the telco's expensive unlimited phone service offers that commit them to a $1200 a year bill for combined services, not including Fed. taxes, user fees, local corrupt govt bleedings, etc. Your handle won't be one easily forgotten, so keep an eye out for a kindly old wizard. Well, first I have to check for any upgrades and reread the fine print about transoceanic PC to PC chitchats.

Graylox, you just made my day:) http://windynights.homestead.com/FractalPage.html
Windy Nights, that's my site! WOOT!(Thanks for the bookmark)
I'm a grandma too...but that doesn't mean I don't like playing Guitar Hero 2 or digging around in the guts of computers. :)))

RunesageMagi, thanks for the links... I have always loved fractals, I'll have to check these out! This is my favorite fractal artist:
http://www.alicekelley.com/