Meditations on the Mandelbrot Set
I am posting this drawing, which I did a while ago, in response to John Baez’s recent post “Rolling Circles” on his Azimuth blog: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/rolling-circles-and-balls-part-1/
I really enjoyed reading the discussion, the diagrams, and Vi Hart’s inspired video.
In the comments, there is a small discussion between Mike Stay and John Baez about one famous Cardioid – the Mandelbrot set. Which reminds me of my explorations of different ways of drawing the Mandelbrot set, which I use as a metaphor for other worldliness in my work.
Meditations on the Mandelbrot Set
Copyright Anita Chowdry
This drawing is about a free association of thoughts – a caustic creating a cardioid (as demonstrated on John Baez’s post) , then used to draw a free-style Mandelbrot set on a squared surface, which is then projected to a Renaissance-style single-point perspective drawing, upon which I imposed a landscape (pure flight of fantasy!)
The featured image is another play with ideas – hoping that none of this outrages any real mathematicians out there!
And here is the featured image to view in more detail (please do not use without permission) You can also see my work on the cover of “Applications of Automata Theory and Algebra” by John Rhodes, edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, World Scientific 2010.
Here Be Dragons
Copyright Anita Chowdry
"Making Masterpieces for a Prince of the Black Sheep" – my Bodleian Fellowship research blog
"The Book of Gold" – Gold pigment tutorial available from my Etsy shop
Beautiful.
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hi Anita, wonderful work here.
It seems you made this in 2009? but Baez posted his post only recently ..?
“which I did a while ago, in response to John Baez’s recent post “Rolling Circles” on his Azimuth blog”
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Hi, yes that is correct, around 2009 – they have been part of my studio resources all this time. John Baez’s post inspired me to share them, as they were based on the concepts he covers in “Rolling Circles”. It seemed a good opportunity to show the drawings to the Math community to see how they would be received.
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This is beautiful, inspiring work!
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Thankyou Ronald.
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Wow, both these drawings are great! I can see a larger version of the second if I click on it, but not the first. It’s the sort of thing that would be nice to see full-screen, actually.
I hope no mathematicians are ‘outraged’ by beautiful flights of fancy inspired by math.
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Thanks John, and thanks for your interesting posts. I have inserted the image now, so you should be able to see a larger version. You can also see my work on the cover of “Applications of Automata Theory and Algebra” by John Rhodes, edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, World Scientific 2010.
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