Fractals
Fractal Images
Published on 28. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-941237-60-1 (ISBN)
Description
Recommended for art, nature, and science fans!
This is a book for art lovers, designers, and art-loving techies everywhere! A coffee-table art book filled with lush art plates that speak to the senses, the fractal images within reflect the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and demonstrate the power of computer-aided design in creating original works of art.
In Fractals: Fractal Art, the art of chaos is brilliantly represented by Jack Cleveland's artistic sensibility and his mastery of math and computer science. Colorful swirls of recurring patterns descend smaller and smaller into imagined infinity, pleasing to the eye.
What is a fractal? A fractal is essentially a never-ending, repeating pattern. Fractals reflect the art of chaos, as seen in crystal growth and galaxy formation. Fractal geometry can reflect and illuminate structures and patterns found in nature-from mountains, coastlines, and hurricanes to movements of the stock market over time. Perhaps, fractals can be seen to represent a metaphor for our chaotic times as we attempt to understand the processes and structures which are manifest in the chaos and ineffable beauty of our ever-changing and dynamic natural world.
"I was blown away by the pieces of art that the author has created. This is one of those art books that one needs to keep close to the favorite coffee place and relooks at the art work every now and then. If you love fractals, you will love this book." -Mukesh Gupta, NetGalley Reviewer
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941237-60-1 (9781941237601)
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Jack Cleveland, a polymath, had an artistic eye from an early age. Largely self-taught, his first intentional "work" was created by hammering together three pieces of driftwood to make a duck in flight; a self-portrait of himself fishing was done around age four, followed by many detailed pictures of space-ships and fantastical landscapes. He grew up on a farm in Kansas, and explored the fields and streams around his home, finding special rocks and fossils. In college, he discovered the wonders of geology and astronomy. He was greatly influenced by the images coming from the Hubble space-flight, and soon was incorporating that vision into his art-work, now done with computer graphics as he experimented with new techniques and software just emerging. An early adopter of computer technology, his fractal artwork combined his life-long love of nature and technology, brought together in this collection of original fractal art images.