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Fractalidescope - Part 1
A friend let me borrow this VHS from the late 1980s. on the front of the box "Kaleidoscope of colors flowing over fractals by Arnie Greif to music by Another Umbrella"
The following taken from a pamphlet included inside the VHS case:
What is a fractal?
A fractal is an object that is made up of parts that look like the whole and each one of those parts is made up of that look like itself and each one of those parts, and so on and so on. There are objects and processes in nature that have a fractal structure to them, like clouds or mountains. For example, if one looks closer at a part of a mountain range, it also looks like a mountain range.
The fractals that we make are generated by math equations and don't exist outside of the computer itself. Many pictures can come from each equation, with different input values giving different results. One equation that we use, the Mandelbrot set, was published in Scientific American in 1985 and is well known. It is named for Benoit Mandelbrot, a research fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He coined the term fractal to describe forms having a fractal dimension.
I have been working with these types of equations and programs since 1985. Our philosophy is to produce as bright, clear and as high in quality possible and still keep the price range as low as possible.
In each image that we make there are no less than 200 million calculations performed to generate. We make the pictures on a Sun Microsystems computer. We use equations that Arnie develops and programs developed by John Bolton and Arnie Greif.
Though created mathematically, fractals offer both beautiful and colorful art compositions. They are a part of a new genre in the art world. Fractals combine creative and scientific elements to produce an advanced art for today.
Sherri Greif, Arnie Greif
