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The sphere in the foreground here was being rendered as a test image to develop the color-texture used in "Zabriskie Point". A French economist wandered into my office at Yale and exclaimed "Oh! It is beautiful! You must present this as an artwork!" -- a thought which would never have occurred to me; it was, after all, simply a test. I added the burgundy background to get this subtle rendering.
If you do not have the gamma set correctly for your monitor, you're not likely to see much in this image; it's very subtle.
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One of my current research projects, being pursued with the assistance of Myeong Lim, is to gain control of stochastic color perturbations. This is a test image of the Generalized Impressionistic Texture (GIT) matrix generator's color-textures. Another example of a GIT texture is seen in the mountains of "Pleiades".
Some low-orbit renderings from my synthetic planets.
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"Planet Mandelbrot" was designed for the cover of the 1993/4 Fractals Calendar. In the tradition of those covers, started by Richard Voss, it combines both a deterministic fractal -- the Mandelbrot set -- and a random fractal -- the planet in the foreground. It took some care to make the planet "come forward" from the brightly-colored background.
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"Silk" is a color study designed to imitate the kind of color gradations one finds in silkscreens. The image is rendered with ambient light only leading to a flat, schematic appearance; atmospheric mist provides a sense of depth.
A mini-gallery various renderings involving fire and flames.
Sometimes I like to play with fire...
The obligatory self portraits.