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Published: 2019-03-28 17:00:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 431; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 3
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Layers of classic fractals and hours of manipulation to bring you an abstract, trippy visual experience.I've been working on this piece for weeks and it just was never right until very suddenly, after a certain effect, it was! So here it is. This is a cropped version, but a good size. I hope it is as satisfying for everyone else as it is for me.
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Thanks. I'm fine, how bout you?
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Definitely trippy, indeed. The colors are electrifying. I see an intoxicating gulf of flowers, personally. Or a hole, leading to some wonderland... falling a long time in it, like Alice in the book, might be a wonderful experience...
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I see the cosmos in all its glory stretching into infinity, everything and nothing at once. But the nature of art is to be perceived differently be everyone, and as an abstract piece almost any personal perception would be valid.
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Our visions aren't mutually exclusive. On the contrary, yours encompasses mine... And they have in common a taste of infinity... infinity and fractals are closely imbricated, by the bye, if only mathematically.
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It may be because I love the infinite, that I love fractals. Math is very real and concrete to me, as real as if it were the earth beneath my feet. I cringe every time I hear a physicist proclaim infinity isn't real, that it's impossible... just because they don't understand it the way I do. Infinity is the only answer that makes sense, and it's very possible if your head isn't too big for your shoulders. Sorry, I'm kind of rambling now. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine.
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Those "physicists" have proofs of the boundaries of the universe? It reminds me of those people that were (are?...) sure that Earth is flat like a pizza.
Now infinity, or its time equivalent: eternity... we all dream of that, except of the dry minds, or the idiots... which amounts to a lot of people maybe indeed lol For me infinity is where our souls come from, and where they go.
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I know right? It was some super famous one on tv too. The white haired Asian dude, I forget his name, but he was like evaluating this formula of plugging this new theory into relativity and special mechanics and adding it up and suddenly: and this would mean infinity, so it doesn't work because infinity is impossible. I swear I must have been screaming at the tv NO NO it's perfect! it's the only thing that makes sense it makes so much sense!! SMH so much at that guy.
I don't really believe in souls, but I'm sure eternity is real. In all directions. The singularity that began our current universe is just a narrow point we can't see around or through. You can't have an uncaused cause. Nothing works unless there is something infinite. I believe singularities are that something, and that they are all really the same singularity - they exist outside our normal dimensions, so the fact they can be found all over in the center of black holes does not mean they are actually separate and distinct, necessarily.
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Well there is nothing scientific about what I talk in my previous comment I fear, but it would be nice it was, someday... You never know with science, you know...
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“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” A. Einstein.
I think we agree, infinity is possible and does exist in the universe, and beyond...
I don't really believe either in things that cannot be proven. By souls, I mean perhaps that life principle that comes from the dawn of time (in French it is "the night of times"), that capacity to be a 'sentient' being, to be able to 'sense' things, to feel pleasure and pain, that has been transmitted from generation to generation up to now. It's hard for me to imagine one point in the time when this 'thing' would have started to exist. So I tend to believe life is eternal, and consubstantial to the matter - or energy, matter can be seen as condensed energy. Our mortal envelops made of DNA cells are only complex arrangements of this phenomenon, from that pov.
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I love that quote! That's a very interesting take on souls that I've never heard before. I'm so glad you shared it with me. It's kind of the old, "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question on a bigger and infinity seems like a reasonable answer to that. I'll have to think about it. What do you think of emergent consciousness, not just being able to sense things but having a sense of self, like I am a conglomeration of cells with a singular sense of self, "I" do things and "I" am because I have an emergent consciousness that is different and apart from each cells' consciousness (else "I" would be "We".) Do you think cells have this kind of awareness?
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That's quite a hard and complex question. Maybe self consciousness can be seen as having to do with the "cogito ergo sum","I think, therefore I am", the fact to be aware of one's own existence, by the 'act' of thinking. But this ability comes only with a cerebral cortex, and some advancement in the education. Experiments show that a gorilla can recognize himself as different from other beings. But do you think a human fetus has that sense of being one self? I believe he just doesn't have the sufficient information to have such an awareness. But like any other animal (or living organism, or thinner being, maybe), he has this wondrous capacity to feel pleasure and pain, and that could be a definition like another of consciousness of self after all (since you don't feel for the neighbor for instance). It could be put as "I feel, therefore I am".
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Great variety of textured shapes and bold colors here... may I ask what software you used to create this one?
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Just paint.net, layers of the basic renders it provides, manipulated a lot. Can you see the mandelbrot in it?
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