{"id":6223,"date":"2009-10-21T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2009-10-21T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:21:09","slug":"haeckel-fractals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/21\/haeckel-fractals\/","title":{"rendered":"Haeckel fractals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subblue.com\/blog\/2009\/7\/18\/artforms_of_nature\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haeckel.jpg\" alt=\"haeckel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In which Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/origomi\/sets\/72157601323433758\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Art Forms in Nature<\/em><\/a> are given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subblue.com\/blog\/2009\/7\/18\/artforms_of_nature\" target=\"_blank\">the Mandelbrot treatment<\/a>. The example above is one of a number of variations created using the splendid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/origomi\/1062998468\/in\/set-72157601323433758\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gorgon-headed Starfish<\/a>, a creature I&#8217;ve messed with myself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/haunter\/yuggoth.html\" target=\"_blank\">a couple of times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These fractal images have been created by the Subblue people using their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subblue.com\/projects\/fractal_explorer\" target=\"_blank\">Fractal Explorer plug-in<\/a> for Adobe&#8217;s Pixel Bender Toolkit, both of which are free downloads. I&#8217;ve not had chance to play around properly with Pixel Bender but the results here make it seem worth spending  time getting to grips with its rather primitive interface.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/20\/ernst-haeckel-christmas-card-artist\/\">Ernst Haeckel, Christmas card artist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s Art Forms in Nature are given the Mandelbrot treatment. The example above is one of a number of variations created using the splendid Gorgon-headed Starfish, a creature I&#8217;ve messed with myself a couple of times. These fractal images have been created by the Subblue people using their Fractal Explorer plug-in for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/21\/haeckel-fractals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haeckel fractals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,13,15],"tags":[1723],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-science","category-technology","tag-ernst-haeckel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Cn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}