From: Phil Osborn (philosborn@altavista.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 20:41:22 MST
Re the ability to predict patterns in chaotic systems, I actually have several pieces of what I consider really stunning artwork that I created using the Julia Set Explorer plug-in that comes with COREL Paint. I never "think" about what I'm doing when I'm creating these things - how I know to move to an area of the set and then play with the variables, set the colors, etc., and usually I couldn't replicate it for my life, but most people find them really entrancing. Some of my better pieces were rendered at 6000 x 6600 pixels, so I can print them out in pieces and end up with a 3' x 3' poster in hi-resolution that seems to go to infinity.
Some people, however, I've noticed, are absolutely unaffected, or even hostile, and can't understand why anyone would like something "wierd" like that. Other words they use are "psycheadelic" or "groovy" or "trippy," but always as a put-down.
I've often wondered if in fact there is some kind of hard-wired talent that I have and they don't
for seeing these patterns. I notice that the same people at work who refer to the chaotic images as garbage are also the ones who want every item in a sales flyer or a web page that I might be producing for the company - box, photo, table, text block - to line up perfectly in neat little orthogonal rows, regardless of how much violence it does to readability or visual balance. I've gotten really tired of seeing really nice graphic designs totally trashed by them.
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