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in begging news, i’ve just added a ‘donate’ button on the side bar. this is only temporary, and i promise all of the money donated will go towards art supplies and setting up a shop, and only a very very small portion will be spent recklessly.

click for HQ.

benoit mandelbrot, the man who invented the word ‘fractal’ and made maths temporarily cool for the public died two days ago at age 85. he was able to create some of the most beautiful images that actually meant something mathematically with his own fractal, the mandelbrot set. he was generally a smart and awesome guy.

here’s a simulation of his set that i made about a year ago:

(click to zoom in (being a fractal it’s infinitely scalable), it’s quite CPU heavy so be warned with the quality slider)

and boom, like that, i’m animating. early days, but it’s happening.

sorry for the lack of updates though, i’ve been busy applying to universities and writing a top secret program. lots of stuff in the pipe line though :D

(i made that octopus one using a quill and a bottle of ink. i felt very victorian)

this one went through a few incarnations. i made the first couple of ideas, then realised that i was being a fool, and that “the bears and the bees” isn’t the expression (but check out that sneaky sneaky ‘honey’ reference :D ). in the next version their eyes made them look like they were going to murder and pillage the entire population of a small nation.

so i changed tact and went for this version, which i like the most.