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Full composition of Eric's fractal |
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Spot Light Corner: Eric's Atom Model
There is an imaginary borderline dimension where science and art do meet. Ok, it is only a "fractional" dimension, and well, it is only the reflection of an imaginary 3d dimension over the dull 2d plane. But it is sure there, as sure as you are watching the marvelous masterpieces fractals on this same plane. And how more astonishing could it be then to see out of the CHAOS of a fractal the neat and elementary structure symbol of an Atom! Out of high mathematics and elaborate formulae came out the paradoxical unexpected ordered chaos, and out of this same CHAOS emerges the most ordered structure in the universe, the atom and its electrons cloud and orbits. Only to let you know, that creation and universe has been developed by one blue print, which is the same and the only for anything in this space and time, repeating patterns and structures, chaos and order, reality and unreal on any given scale. And this is what the artist, Eric Pritchard, has told me abut how it was done: "The image is a "classic" Julia set for Z^2 + C where C = 0.37 - 0.15i. The escape limit is (x + y)^2 > 9 rather than the standard x^2 + y^2 > 4. I also set up a lower boundary check (I've heard this referred to as an orbital trap) using | x + y | < 0.005. It's the lower boundary check that produced the spaghetti like structures that formed the "atom". The image name "Simple" is another example of a Julia set using an orbit trap. In this case the check used was x^2 + y^2 < lim. I tend to experiment quit a bit with boundary conditions." The curator March 2000 |
