Jun 07 2010
Fractal calendars
A search on Amazon for “fractal calendar” provides several results. I knew about Infinite Creations, Fractal Universe and Fractal Cosmos, but there are a couple of results that I have never heard of.
From the pictures, the images in the calendars seem to be “escape time” fractals as opposed to IFS fractals. I find that interesting because the most popular fractal software, Apophysis, creates IFS fractals, sometimes called “flame” or “smoke” fractals. It seems that none of the calendars represent the type of fractals that most fractal artists are creating today.
I know that you can go to places like Deviantart to buy all sorts of fractal calendars, but Deviantart is not Amazon. Deviantart is a social networking site, so its market is limited to the people who hang out on Deviantart. Amazon is much bigger. I wonder why there isn’t at least one calendar with Apophysis images on Amazon? I understand that it can be a challenge to render flames to print resolution, but it isn’t impossible. It seems like there should be something with a flame in it.
A 2011 Fractal Universe calendar? That’s a surprise. I am speculating, but I would bet that it’s a desktop calendar published by whatever the publishing company changed into after the bankruptcy. In previous years, the desktop calendar used the images from the previous year’s wall calendar, and there is a 2010 wall calendar. That’s just speculation though. I suppose that it’s possible that some other company used the name “Fractal Universe”, but that doesn’t make sense because that name is supposed to be a registered trademark – at least it had an ® next to the name on the old web site. I have no idea what that calendar is about.
Anyway, it is good to see lots of fractal calendars. I still believe that the world does not have enough printed fractals in it. I don’t care much for the style of many of the fractals that they put those calendars, but at least they have some form of fractal in them. The more fractals that there are hanging on walls, the better it is for fractal art. I have said this before: The internet is a bad place to promote fractal art. It needs to be printed.
