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Elmfract Fractals

$image of wokkel fractal$ I made this fractal for the cover of my Ph.D. thesis. It was inspired by the infrared spectrum that I had been computing.

About this Site

This website is dedicated to images of fractals I make with elmfract, my personal fractal program. Elmfract started out in 1999 as a programming exercise in C++, but it grew into a full-fledged obession, er, hobby, because of the artistic aspect. The fractals on this site are constructed from formulas of a few lines that determine the overall shape as well as the surface texture details. That is why I think that the images sometimes have a surprising natural look to them, although they are completely computer generated.

A first attempt to demonstrate the underlying principles can be found on the explanation page.

When I am not making fractals, I play some classical guitar, or work on medical software for a big medical imaging company.

Eric Meijer, May 18 2007

Site Map

What's new on the site (or old) is at the bottom of this page; last update: March 19, 2012.

There is a page with recent images. Here I show what I recently made. Not necessarily very nice, but recent :^).

There is a page with examples that I keep to test the capabilities of elmfract.

There is a gallery page with images that I like a lot.

A first attempt to explain some of the background of the fractals is now available.

If you want to mail me about the images, you can find an email address on the contact page.

History

March 19, 2012: new set of recent images added, moved previous recent images to the gallery.
August 13, 2011: new set of recent images added, and moved some images that were there before to the gallery.
December 19, 2009: Update! After more than a year of inertia, restyling of website, removing most of the javascript. Added new recent images, and moved the old recent images to the restructured gallery pages.
October 11, 2008: new set of recent images added, and moved the images that were in that section to the gallery. Also added the latest examples.
March 1, 2008: added some fractals to the recent section, and moved some of the image that were there before to the gallery.
December 28, 2007: added favicon.ico, and some examples; changed some details to please the W3C validation service.
December 10, 2007: installed website on a new server, using my own sparkling new domain "elmweb.nl", and changed the email address on the contact page accordingly.
May 18, 2007: put fresh images in the recent section, and moved some of the image that were there before to the gallery; also adapted the intro blurb and fiddled around a bit with the style sheet.
August 27, 2006: added examples 144 through 146, made updates to the recent and gallery pages.
April 23, 2006: added examples 136 through 143, changed some of the link html code, and split the examples onto multiple pages.
January 14, 2006: added some images to the recent section, moved some image to the gallery.
December 22, 2005: added the explanation page, put titles above images.
November 10, 2005: resized all images to maximum 1024x768, added copyright notices.
November 5, 2005: added site to Fractal Artists' Ring.
October 30, 2005: added javascript for easier browsing through galleries, fixed formatting code that made home page look funny in Internet Explorer, resized examples that did not fit reasonably on a browser on a 1280x1024 screen.
October 23, 2005: layout changes, added examples 131-136, and recent images.
September 30, 2005: new recent images.
September 17, 2005: layout changes, additions to gallery.
September 11, 2005: initial version.

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