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Ken Karsten's Musings on Fractals, Targets, Generative Art, and Repligator I have worked with fractals for many years. The possibilities for new and different images in the field seem almost endless. Repligator assists them to be extended beyond that. Believe it! The images below were made from the fractal image upper left:
Repligator offers thousands, if not millions, of possibilities for changing an image into something else. It largely depends on the image you choose to modify. Products of my work with Repligator, and other generative art programs, are on display in my home, my gallery. New visitors are entranced by the colors. Artists interested in color field visual art will find this to be a fertile field in which to work. Here is a target image modified with Repligator:
I have worked with fractal programs for many years. Fractaliers talk about going deeper and deeper and that's what I did as computers with those capablities became available. My 21" CRT and Dell 2400 computer now make it easy for me to do just that. I am a searcher and like to find things that are new to me. I find them working with fractals just wandering around the programs. I like many fractal programs but prefer Fractals Forever. The focal point of interest in an image is often a circle. The circle is the subject as well as the center of interest in a target. The eye does not have to wonder around looking for "what is it?" A target image can be like infinity - a circle within a circle within a circle, etc. Each concentric circle can be the same color, different colors, different, textures, etc. Distortion is a big factor in modern art. One of the distortions I like is a target with ripples to make an image that looks like a sunset with a different kind of sun. That image has surprise value because of the setting and allows the whole range of color field art to go to work. I have worked with an image of three target "suns" setting over water. Outer space! Colorfield art forever! This Article (c) 2006 Kenneth S Karsten. Further thoughts: My idea of generative art is that you have to start with something. Then you can modify with programs such as Repligator. So, I start with an image that I think would be interesting if modified by some means such as color reduction, ribbons, edges .... The image may be generated using draw program such as Serif DrawPlus or one of the programs for generating fractals. I am not interested in math. I am interested in images. I like the "artist" style such as Warhol either single or multiple images. I find op art and Mondrian interesting but only on occasionly - too much like patterns. Below is one of my images which I find works well with color reduction, edges and ribbons. My idea is to make controlled or unexpected distortions - modern art is distortion in one form or another.
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