Tag: fractals
It sounds like something out of a clumsy sci-fi movie, but “rangeomorphs” — fractal-shaped organisms which evolved before plants and animals — were very real. The above digital renderings of the obscure sea dwellers were created by scientists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Simon Conway Morris. Rangeomorphs reigned in the Ediacaran era, 575 million years ago, when life was microscopic. They […]
Cyriak, master of psychedelic, fractal animal animations, returns today with Chimpnology, a celebration of the titular furry primates. What starts as a relatively straightforward video of a bunch of monkeys dancing in suits quickly becomes characteristically grotesque, a apes sprout extra limbs upon limbs and eyes become mouths become eyes. Its all set to a […]
More often than not, fractals exist squarely within the realm of the digital. Though they closely resemble various natural phenomena–trees or lightning bolts, for example–the phrase usually channels something that was generated by an algorithm and lives on the cover of a ca. 1993 three-ring binder. Using 15,000 volts of electricity and a sheet of […]
