sculpting with soup: the fractal tree

Monday, December 12, 2005

the fractal tree

The best bit about blogger is sharing interests, learning stuff and seeing things from new perspectives - ones I wouldn't have thought of myself.

I'm made up because Anne has sent me a version of the fractal tree. I don't know how it's done but it's brilliant! Thanks Anne. :o)

See Anne's beautiful images at A Day in the Life

hmmm, I'm feeling in the mood for some poetry - luckily for everyone I don't know how. Here's a haiku instead which, the way I do them, is more word puzzle than poem. If you don't want to see the results, look away now.

$fractal haiku$
twigs sprout from branches
sons in their father's image
grand family tree

3 comments:

Anne said...: You're such a character!; Wednesday, 14 December, 2005
DA said...: Fractals are about mathematic order. A tree is somewhat chaotic. Chaos is ordered but the order is infinite.

(what do I know); Wednesday, 21 December, 2005
Ian russell said...: you are probably right, dimitri! :o)

I went to a restaurant once, called Chaos!. whatever was ordered took an infinite time arriving...; Thursday, 22 December, 2005

mock turtle

There's a few references to photoshop. I avoided using photoshop in the beginning, it's a moot point whether it's still photography and not merely computer graphics. This idea changed when my friend and pro photographer, Anne, urged me to ''push'' my images to get the best results. Now I feel it's all about the finished image; the end justifies the means. In a way this implies photography has been devalued, and it has, but then no one has been using box cameras and silver nitrate for a while - it's progress. As long as the spirit is alive, it's still photography.

If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision? The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it; the mind would be filled with its glory unable to grasp it, hardly believing that such things could be mere matter ... too beautiful to be long watched lest it should fade away.
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'

Monday, December 12, 2005

the fractal tree

3 comments:

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