Kaleidoscopes and Fractals

GROUP HISTORY

This group was created out of the love for the beauty and symmetry kaleidoscopes and fractals conventional image manipulation software filters can generate.

Kaleidoscopes, in this group title, refer to the visual output a computer software generates by applying kaleidoscopic iterative functions onto a digital image.

Fractals, in this group title, refer to the visual output a computer software generates applying conventional image manipulation software fractal trace mapping algorithm.

Formerly, this group has been interested in, therefore expecting, the submitted artworks to come from the alteration of an original input artwork using either here-above mentioned methods.

This group's primary focus has been kaleidoscopes as defined here-above.

The father of Fractal Geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has also been recognized for bridging the gap between art and mathematics, and showing that these two worlds are not mutually exclusive.

Since the mid-'70s, personal computers have made it more and more into every office and gradually into every home, so many computer software algorithms have been written and shared as open-source since.


GROUP NOWADAYS

In 2022, in the era of the Internet Of Things, there are so many Fractal Geometry related software packages that an artist can use to create artworks.

Many of our group members may know Benoit Mandelbrot, for since 1975 he enjoyed demonstrating how nearly everything in nature can be found to be, more or less randomly, Fractal.

Therefore many members may have developed their own understanding of what Fractal and Fractals mean or should mean according to them.

Please read group rules before submitting artworks.

This group's primary focus has been kaleidoscopes as defined here-above in the GROUP HISTORY's first few lines.

From 2022 and on, this group may gradually enlarge its domain of interests with respect to Fractals depending on the participating members, artwork submissions, meaningful discussions, contests statistics, etc.


GROUP RULES

The submitted artwork can be any media, whether a painting, a photograph, an illustration, even a purely computer-generated image relying on either or both kaleidoscopes and fractals processes, or a series of successive processes, as described here-above.

The submitted artwork, however, must look and feel deconstructed and symmetric.

Deconstructed figuratively speaking similar to pure abstract paintings in which nor the subject as a whole nor any of its parts can be recognized to the human observer.

Symmetric and self-similar unlike pure abstract paintings in general.

As for the themes, figures, symbols, words, and subjects that can be perceived, more or less subtly, when looking at the submitted artwork. No violence. Some nudity in good taste is accepted. Religious and political references are accepted too. But remember, this group is really about the beauty of symmetry.

Please maximum 3 images per day.

The administrator will not approve all submissions, as it is technically fairly easy nowadays to use various software apps and online services to generate kaleidoscopes and fractals.

The administrator is inevitably subjective in his acceptance criteria when it comes to finding the submitted artwork's structures and choices of colors of interest to the group.

Before not accepting a submission, the administrator will try to engage in exploring members' collections of artworks to better understand the artistic choices involved in each submission.

Know, in this group, it is mandatory to submit your art in the discussion link here below,
otherwise, the art will most likely NOT BE ACCEPTED.

New submissions discussion link - Post your submitted artwork in here.

This group was started on March 31st, 2020.