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Fractal art #10 - Spiral waves

allforyouPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

Hey everyone! This is my tenth fractal which I want to show you.


Its name is "Spiral waves". All colors, textures and lighting were randomly generated. The rendering time of this fractal is almost 2 hours!

Full size image is here


Technical information

Initial resolution - 4096 x 3072 (4k)
Rendering Time - 01:44:04
Number of iterations - 670


The same fractal, but in a slightly different resolution:

Full size image is here


Technical information

Initial resolution - 3840 x 2160 (UHD)
Rendering Time - 01:11:10
Number of iterations - 670


What is fractal?

A fractal is any pattern, that when seen as an image, produces a picture, which when zoomed into will still make the same picture. It can be cut into parts which look like a smaller version of the picture that was started with. The word fractal was made by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 from the Latin word fractus, which means "broken" or "fractured". A simple example is a tree that branches into smaller branches, and those branches into smaller branches and so on. Fractals are not only beautiful, but also have many practical applications.

Uses

Fractals have many applications e.g. in biology (lung, kidneys, heart rate variability, etc...), in earthquakes, in finance where it is related to the so called heavy tail distributions and in physics. This indicates that fractals should be studied to understand why fractals are so frequent in nature.

Some fractals exist only for artistic reasons, but others are very useful. Fractals are very efficient shapes for radio antennas and are used in computer chips to efficiently connect all the components. Also, coastlines can be thought of as fractals.


If you are interested in fractal arts, please have a look at my previous posts:

Fractal art #9 - Crown

Fractal art #8 - Fun microbes

Fractal art #7 - Fractal hexagon

Fractal art #6 - Butterflies

Fractal art #5 - Flower

Fractal art #4 - Dandelion

Fractal art - Jellyfishes | We-Talent Round 1

Fractal art - Butterfly on a flower

Meet the first fractal art on Whaleshares! - Burning man


I am very grateful to you for every comment, upvote and following.

━ allforyou ━

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