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Very happy to see this 7 pages articles about fractal art in Pour la Science this month, the French edition of Scientific American.

Drawing parallels with other art forms including photography, Jean-Paul Delahaye explains why fractals can be used to create art and talks about the creation process (discovering mathematical formulas, writing programs, and of course using the programs) and focuses on my work: images, book, videos and 3D printed fractal sculptures and jewels. And there's even a mention of Deviantart!

He also explains the concept of hybrid fractals with some examples. I have created all the images featured in the article with Mandelbulb3D. Some are old, some have been done especially for the occasion (the one above and the illustrations for hybrids between Menger sponge and Sierpinski tetrahedron). There are also some photos of my 3D prints.

Link to the online version (doesn't feature all the pictures and the full text) www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages…

More links:
3D fractal videos – www.youtube.com/user/bib993 
3D printed fractal objects, sculptures and jewels – www.shapeways.com/shops/3Dfrac…
Livre d’art fractal - www.amazon.fr/Lart-fractal-Aux…

Cool story about my passion for 3D printed fractals on 3Dprint.com:

Check it out! 3dprint.com/50133/3d-printed-f…

Thanks to PeppermintSoda for the DD suggestion and to C-91 for the DD! I dedicate it to Constance Rousseau at CoandCo agency, who took the picture.

My book signing is taking place at Eyrolles bookstore in Paris on March 7.

www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Evene…

Rayon Sciences / Samedi 7 mars - Rencontre-dédicace avec Jérémie Brunet - à partir de 16h30

Renseignements :

Discover the wonders of the Mandelbox.
Soundtrack "Morituri te salutant" courtesy of zzzzra.

Explore a digital space, a space that has got different dimensions. Navigate in a universe made of numbers, formulae, and iterative calculations. This is our own universe. Thanks to fractals you can visualize the naked beauty of nature.

This video is a panorama of the Mandelbox parameter space. The Mandelbox is a 3 dimensional fractal object discovered in 2010 by Tom Lowe and named after the father of fractal geometry Benoit Mandebrot.

What we see here is actually a fixed cut in the middle of the Mandelbox, which has a cubic shape in general. We don’t travel in our usual 3D space, instead we explore another 3D space, where each dimension corresponds to one of the 3 parameters found in the Mandelbox formula.

All the morphing going on is due to the variations of these 3 parameters - see links below for a detailed explanation of the Mandelbox formula -. They are the 3 axis of the space through which we draw our trajectory, made of segments that join many interesting triplets, especially those that include round numbers, among an infinite set of combinations.

I have made my best efforts to walk you through a collection of the most interesting points and at the same time show you a wide variety of shapes and dynamics that can be found when playing with "the box".

I originally created this video because I had already realized a series of 25 unique prints based on variations on the same theme, and I wanted to take advantage of this work and materialize the journey through these 25 images.

Actually, the original request for images came from a professor in mathematics who needed mathematical illustrations for an article about 3D fractals in a scientific magazine - planned release date: April 2015. He was finding one of my 3D images particularly interesting - “The Treasure”, see link below - and at the same time wanted to give some mathematical content to his article, not to talk just about nice images. As “The Treasure” was actually a Mandelbox with a particularly simple set of parameters - yet not widely explored by the fractal community where the Mandelbox is a well know source of inspiration, I came up with the idea of this series: a systematic exploration of the box in an attempt to map its unchartered territories and expose some of its more noticeable features. I carefully traced scenic highways for the occasion to share the places I found the most aesthetically appealing in this  strange multi-dimensional world.

To make the video more enjoyable and to match the length of the tune from my friend Zzzzra - thanks! -, I extended the number of key frames from 25 to more than 80, further exploring into the parameter space, or focusing on areas exhibiting richer structures and more variety that deserved to be shown.

I generally produce animations in 3D, but the complexity of the inner structures of the Mandelbox required a specific treatment: back to 2D! In 3D the effects and the patterns are equally interesting and deserve their own way of exploration, in my opinion more by navigating in the usual 3D space and with relatively small variations of parameters in order not to dramatically blow up the landscape with extreme morphing. On the contrary, 2D lends itself much better to radical transformations. These strong variations and their intense dynamics are also a reason why I kept the whole animation in black and white, in order to maintain a level of purity – to be linked to the round values used in many key frames, my favorites – and to avoid data overload in the brain!

Thanks for watching!

Links
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The Mandelbox explained by Tom Lowe - sites.google.com/site/mandelbo…
“The treasure”, the image at the origin of this video – bib993.deviantart.com/art/The-…
My other 3D fractal videos – www.youtube.com/user/bib993
This video was made with Mandelbulb3D - www.fractalforums.com/index.ph…
3D printed fractal objects, sculptures and jewels – www.shapeways.com/shops/3Dfrac…
Livre d’art fractal - www.amazon.fr/Lart-fractal-Aux…

It has been a long since I've done a video. Felt like I would do something with the cover image of my book


Made with Mandelbulb3D
Soundtrack courtesy of zzzzra


www.amazon.fr/Lart-fractal-Aux…

International Digital Sculpture Exhibition and Symposium
One of my 3D fractal print will be represented at What Things May Come: 3D Printing in the Fine Arts and Sciences
Brown Symposium
Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown, Texas.
February 4-March 4, 2015
This symposium will address the impact of 3D technology on the human mind as it endeavors to meet future challenges in the arts and sciences.
www.southwestern.edu/academics…




The same sculpture had been already exhibited in The 2014 International Digital Sculpture Exhibition held at the University of Texas in Austin



This is a bigger version of this one:

Or should I say, why? Here are some good reasons:

- Realistically priced for a beautiful hard cover coffee table 173 pages book: 32€
- Representative of the innovations in 3D fractal imagery since the discovery of the Mandelbulb in 2009
- Professionally edited by Pole Editions
- Quite unique in the art books category (have you seen many fractal art books funded and edited by professional book publishers before?)
- In French. Mmmh, well, not a good reason but who cares about the text when you have plenty of nice images (most with an English title) in it
- Available on Amazon: Amazon UK  Amazon FR



Content :
- More than 100 images with explanatory or illustrative text
- Long intro text where I explain my passion for fractals and how I use them to link arts with sciences (in French)
- Technical foreword by josleys, a reference in mathematical imagery (in French)

Feel free if you have any question.



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Yippee! I won a prize in a 3D printing contest with one of my favorite models, the Menger Hypercube

www.cgtrader.com/blog/bling-bl… 

I felt like posting a video of one the 3Dprints I'm the most proud of. My intention was to push the limits of 3Dprinting by making a BIG object for a cheap price and with fine details. I made the model in Incendia EX - Big thanks to Aexion - and 3D printed it at Shapeways. The object was made on an EOS machine that solidifies nylon powder layer after layer with a laser beam.
 


Some stats:

Size: 24.5 cm / 9.6 in.
Wire thickness: 0.8-1mm
Density: 0.22%

See the price and Get your own copy!

Original image by Aexion:

Thanks!

Yippee, another milestone!! Slowly catching up with my viewcount on Youtube (now over 1.3 million)

Special thanks to my watchers

With Ars Mathematica, some of my 3D printed fractal sculptures will be shown at Polytechnic University in Hong Kong during Le French May.

With more than 120 events, le French May is a cultural platform that showcases the finest art forms and cultural exchanges. It is the most diversified festival in Asia, and as a bridge between East and West, Le French May actively collaborates with the local arts scene to create specific programmes featuring the best blend of our cultural differences.

More details here: www.frenchmay.com/en/programme…

www.consulfrance-hongkong.org/…

Thanks!

English below

Enjoy this selection of great images from some of my favorite fractal deviants!

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