What are fractals ?

 There are various definitions of fractals. Some of these definitions are complicated fractal mathematics and some are definitions for non-experts like me. Therefore, I will be able to give you only an explanation of self-taught basic fractal geometry since I started creating fractals in late 1999.

There are two main features to fractals. One feature is all fractals exhibit self-similarity at all scales. This self-similarity may be strict or loose. Strict fractal  self-similarity is rare in nature and may be non-existent.

Let me try and explain loose self-similarity a little further.
Imagine you're in the kitchen and prepare a whole cauliflower for dinner. So what do you do ? First you break off a big branch from the whole cauliflower. What do you see now? You see a small cauliflower which looks similar i.e. loosely self-similar to the whole cauliflower you had a moment ago. Now if you were to continue breaking off even smaller branches of cauliflower you'd end up with ever smaller replicas of the whole cauliflower until nothing was left. That in effect is what fractals are, self-similar replicas at all scales. I know this is not how you prepare cauliflower but I hope you're able to understand the nature of fractals a little more.


The other main feature of fractals is that they have infinite detail, though not always.

There are eight pictures galleries currently here. And each gallery contains 12 fractal pictures. All the fractals have been created with Ultra Fractal. Also all the pictures are available as fractal posters.
Some people think fractals are trippy pictures. Some people think fractals are weird pictures. And some people even think fractals are funny pictures.
  I, however, believe my fractals are The - Priceless Pictures 4 U !
See what you make of them and I'm sure you'll agree.