The images link to hires versions at Flickr. Not all images are available at 1000px, but most are. Some of them are probably also too large for web use, and need to be rescaled.
Argand Variations
artist name: Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen (Syntopia)
project/work name: Argand Variations (2010)
artist location: Denmark
describe your project: These systems are simple variations of the classic Mandelbrot fractal. By modifying the rules of complex multiplication, unexpected forms may be created.
what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?: Music: Keith Jarrett (a lot), Arvo Pärt, Leonard Cohen.... Currently reading Houllebeque, Murakami, and Knausgård.
whose work is currently on your radar?: Tom Beddard, Michael Hansmeyer, Jared Tarbell, Alex Dragulescu and Dave Bollinger.
These image were made with Fragmentarium which is freely available at: http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/
Structure Synth
artist name: Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen (Syntopia)
project/work name: Structure Synth (2007-2010)
artist location: Denmark
describe your project: This project builds on Noam Chomsky's generative grammars. While these grammars originally were devised to describe the structure of language, Chris Coyne extended them to describe design structure, in what he named Context Free Design Grammers. I took his idea and extended it to 3D. These systems are stochastic in their nature - you provide a description, a grammar, for them, and each time you run the system you get a new output. The images here demonstrate that this approach is able to generate an astonishing amount of diversity.
what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?: As above
whose work is currently on your radar?: As above.
Structure Synth is freely available at: http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/
Folding Space
artist name: Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen (Syntopia)
project/work name: Folding Space (2011)
artist location: Denmark
describe your project: 'Folding Space' is an exploration of a class of 3D fractals, called Kaleidoscopic IFS's (first described in this thread at fractalforums.com). I start out with classic forms, typically one of the Platonic Solids, and add small perturbations in order to arrive at new and interesting forms.
what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?: As above
whose work is currently on your radar?: As above.
These image were made with Fragmentarium which is freely available at: http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/
Hypercomplex Study
artist name: Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen (Syntopia)
project/work name: Hypercomplex Study (2011)
artist location: Denmark
describe your project: This is my attempts to extend the 2D Mandelbrot system to 3D dimensions using numbers which generalize the normal complex numbers. These 'hypercomplex' numbers include exotic number systems such as the 4D Quaternions and Tesserines.
what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?: As above
whose work is currently on your radar?: As above.
These image were made with Fragmentarium which is freely available at: http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/
Icosahedron Study
artist name: Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen (Syntopia)
project/work name: Icosahedron Study (2010)
artist location: Denmark
describe your project: 'Icosahedron Study' is an exploration of a class of 3D fractals, called Kaleidoscopic IFS's (first described in this thread at fractalforums.com). I start out with an Icosahedron form, one of the classic Platonic solids, and add small perturbations in order to arrive at new and interesting forms.
what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?: As above
whose work is currently on your radar?: As above.
These image were made with using a modified version of Tom Beddard's Pixel Bender scripts: www.subblue.com/projects/mandelbulb
