Hello
I am a 43 year old male from the United States. Making fractal art has been a hobby of mine for many years. My designs have improved a lot since I began, as well as the software. I write software to generate my own fractals. I have a Master's degree in Computational Mathematics and I've studied computer science at the local library since I was a kid. I was always very good at math since I can remember and also very curious. My artistic side has been a work in progress - I began as more of a math/computer geek type person but over the years I honed my artistic style.
I also work as a web developer. I write the code behind websites as well as do the designs. This website also I have written entirely from code and is part of the whole motif of my artwork. The Sudoku game on my website was a project I did when learning to code websites. The engine is written in the PHP language and I generated particular puzzles in the Octave language.
For those who are interested in the technical side, here are some facts about my fractal generator. It is written in C++, designed to run on the Linux operating system but could be ported to Windows without much change. I wrote my own high precision arithmetic library, wheras the other fractal software out there uses 3rd party libraries for this. The only 3rd party code I use is a .PNG encoder. In fact, there is an option to output .BMP images and my generator will run without any 3rd party code. This is for legacy purposes, I originally wrote to run with no 3rd party code at all, but the file sizes became very large and I compromised and included a .PNG encoder. I have various programs to find zoom points and generate images as well as do basic evaluations for mathematical purposes. For animations, the output is a sequence of images which can be easily converted to video. For deep zooms requiring extra digits I use the perturbation method and for zooms up to about 1e-14 I use the regular method. It has been tested for zooms up to about 1e-300. After that, the double-precision perturbations won't be able to store the exponent which maxes out at e-307 (7 extra digits needed for calculation).
If you made it this far, you are a fan, so thank you. It's more about the mathematics than about me, but I like to have my time in the lime light as well. I myself am a fan of math. I have a lot of new designs in the queue, including my plan for a full length Blu-Ray video. Another one of my plans for 2025 is to code quite a few more interesting Julia sets. It's only a matter of having enough free time to pursue my hobby, so stick around to see how this project evolves.