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, ,
also in the TEC ensemble,
or work on medical software for a big medical imaging company.
Contact
If you have anything to say about the images, you can send me a mail,
using the address in this picture.
Eric Meijer, May 1 2015
History
April 29, 2015: started creating mobile friendly version of the site using
responsive design techniques.
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.
I made this fractal for the cover of my Ph.D. thesis. It was inspired
by the infrared spectrum that I had been computing.
![[tiny image of a guitar]](gtr.png)
,
also in the TEC ensemble,
or work on medical software for a big medical imaging company.
