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Ransom Riggs
Math is Beautiful: Fractal Art Contest
by Ransom Riggs - January 3, 2008 - 12:53 PM

Chaired and judged by the father of fractal geometry himself, Benoit Mandelbrot, this annual art contest highlights the playful side of mathematics — with some stunningly beautiful results. Sure, anyone can make a pretty fractal with a few lucky clicks (I used to spend hours messing around with a desktop fractal generator called Fractint) — that’s the beauty, if you will, of this kind of geometry. And that’s where the real challenge of a contest like this begins: if anyone can make something pretty, then it takes real talent to make something truly beautiful! For instance:

“Royalty” by Lenora Clark
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To check out all the winners, check out the contest’s homepage.

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  1. i love fractals. a friend of mine from college used to have these on his computer. if you stare at it long enough it starts to move. pretty amazing what you can do with math.

    posted by Bay on 1-3-2008 at 1:08 pm

  2. Huh. You have found/posted the only instance of fractal art that has ever evoked anything in me apart from “that’s alot of computing power to make a paisley pattern”.

    Kudos.

    posted by Brammimonde on 1-4-2008 at 12:33 am

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