Here is a collection of fractal  images from Tom Wilcox. He has been working in design for 40 years. His gallery is the product of photoshop. Fractal Art is a subclass of two-dimensional visual art, and is similar to photography.

Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. Fractal art is a new way of looking at space and form.  A common experience while viewing fractal imagery is contemplation.

Back in the 1960′s, a French mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot started thinking about simple pretty simple:  How long is the coast of Britain?   How you’d really measure it…  Would you fly over the coast in an airplane and measure how far you flew?  Or would you take a ruler (or meter stick) and get down on your hands and knees and crawl around the edge?  It would be different! The measurement would be broken, fractured in fact.

In the 70′s fractals were a mathematical and visual oddity. Grouped together with the aging psychedelic-genre, mainstream and sophisticated art connoisseurs alike quickly dismissed the gaudy-colored patterns as inconsequential and really not all that attractive, anyway.

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Fractals are everywhere around us. Sea shells are fractals. Trees, plants, clouds, and even complex terrain can be realistically represented using fractals. Fractals are used to simulate the real world and do an amazing job creating complex, life-like structures that we would be hard pressed to manually draw or build.

How to create a theme from the image: See my post on this topic. “Windows7 Sci-Fi Themes from TheLovas“

The Tom Wilcox Wallpapers can be accessed here.