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Most people may not be aware that I’ve been fascinated by fractal arts since I first discovered the Mandelbrot Set over 20 years ago. OK, I didn’t discover it. Benoit Mandelbrot did. But I was fascinated with it nonetheless and have played with it and other fractals ever since. I recently discovered flame fractals and a software tool call Apophysis that is used to design and create these amazing flame fractals. There are some exceedingly talented artists out there that are creating awe inspiring images with this tool. I’ve been playing with it for a few days now and have created these images.

Using the program is not exactly straightforward, and understanding the math and algorithms behind it is only for the utterly twisted math geniuses out there. I certainly don’t understand it very well yet. There are several tutorials available (here and here for instance) to help get you started and I highly recommend reading some of them. Getting the first good looking fractal out of the program can be challenging.