Fractal Art Gallery 2015 PLEASE ENJOY!!!

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This year I continue to research the world of the Mandelbulb. After researching many thousands of intriguing two-dimensional images and composing
some 2.5-dimensional scenes for over 25 years, I thought it would be intriguing to continue using the newer tools to see what could be accomplished.

Please enjoy these 788 brand new images.

BB Series Overview Part 1 (144 Images) --- 2015 (:50) (times to load on dialup internet -- yours will be probably waaaay faster)
BB Series Overview Part 2 (144 Images) --- 2015 (:50)
BB Series Overview Part 3 (144 Images) --- 2015 (:50)
BB Series Overview Part 4 (144 Images) --- 2015 (:50)
BB Series Overview Part 5 (144 Images) --- 2015 (:50)
BB Series Overview Part 6 (68 Images) --- 2015 (:30)

The Mandelbulb phenomena started some seven or eight years ago and those people who began then have turned out some amazing work...even those
who have followed continue to produce surprisingly masterful mathematical constructions...

Whereas calculating a two-dimensional Mandelbrot or Julia set involves merely an iterative (repeated) process of complex algebraic manipulations,
the Mandelbulb calculations (though intimately related) involve the rendering of objects in true 3D by determining how light rays hit a fractally-
calculated surface, requiring jackrabbit microprocessing ability. Be sure that the machines used in the early days would be be virtually useless.

Some related calculations shown here also involve IFS, iteration function systems, a method of using certain matrix manipulational/linear algebraic
rules to dictate shapes and new surprises...I began looking at these way back in the 1980's when I first got started...

Thumbnails are 24-bit JPEG; larger images are normally rendered at a resolution of 3200 x 2560 pixels, well over eight million pixels each.
Images within each series are set in pages to be contrasting, yet randomly arranged.

Please understand that these much smaller online size-reduced JPG images cannot show the wonderfully colorful detail present --
the original high resolution images are all strikingly continuous tones...and way nicer too...every one of which is available printed on glass
at the size 16" x 20" and ready to hang...I have about sixty of them hanging at my place now...

In order to show a bit more detail, thumbnails are now only four to a page, not the usual six to a page and are 324 pixels by 405 pixels,
much better than the older 216 pixels square.