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I’ve decided to make some of these images available for you to buy. At present you can choose from three, all in 12″ x 8″ matt finish and framed. As I don’t yet have a shop facility, they’re on eBay and can be found here. Each framed print is £5 with p&p only £1 per item.

If they sell well, I will be making more “flames” available to buy and will probably open a separate shop, thus avoiding eBay fees! LOL!

So at the weekend, I was bored, and through random trawling of the internet I came across these things called “flames”. Art created from maths, also known as fractals. Ok, so I already knew about fractals, Mandelbrot probably being one of the most famous, but these were different. Further digging revealed these things called “sheep”, another variant on the aforementioned names, but these were being generated using distributed computing techniques.

I grabbed the software needed to produce these things, Apophysis and flam3, and began to play. Then I went digging around in Electric Sheep to see what more I could find. Well, the final product can be seen below as very scaled down versions. My full renders are 4960×3508 pixels in size and took an hour to render on a Dual Xeon 3.2GHz Dell Poweredge server.

At present, as I write infact, the server is processing a 40 second movie of the 3rd “flame” with an approximate total render time of 16 hours.

Nothing really interesting happened today, apart from not getting home late due to teaching. The strange part is, I teach with two other people to a group of adult learners, where the group size last week was 2!

The images below are ones that I produced/edited, or whatever, to demonstrate the usage of the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) as an open source graphics tool. The main point of the course being that you can create certain things without the need to fork out for the expensive tools (e.g. Photoshop)