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Georgia on My Mind


Georgia on My Mind © Kelly Naylor 2010

Georgia on My Mind © Kelly Naylor 2010

Digital fractal; again, the title come from the song of the same name, first recorded by Hoagy Carmichael.

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Blue Rose Mandala


Blue Rose Mandala © Kelly Naylor 2008

Blue Rose Mandala © Kelly Naylor 2008

I'll bet you'd never guess that I like fractals. And mandalas.

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Dreamcatcher Mandala


Dreamcatcher Mandala © Kelly Naylor 2007

Dreamcatcher Mandala © Kelly Naylor 2007

I believe I've mentioned once or twice that I'm fascinated by mandalas. Here's one I did last year. I can see that there will be more in the near future (i.e., as soon as finals are over).

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Nautilus Lightning


Nautilus Lightning © Kelly Naylor 2008

Nautilus Lightning © Kelly Naylor 2008

Another fun fractal! This one reminds me of a nautilus shell, which puts me in mind of all the reading I've been doing about mandalas and circles and labyrinths and spirals. And that reminds me that I'd better get this paper finished! It's due in less than a week! 

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Cracked Glass


Cracked Glass © Kelly Naylor 2007

Cracked Glass © Kelly Naylor 2007

Another new fractal! This one reminds me of a broken stained glass window.  Or possibly a spider web.

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Traveling the Wormhole


Traveling the Wormhole © Kelly Naylor 2007

Traveling the Wormhole © Kelly Naylor 2007

By the name, you might be able to guess that I'm a huge fan of Stargate SG-1.

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Space Colony


Space Colony © Kelly Naylor 2007

Space Colony © Kelly Naylor 2007

Another fun fractal creation! I was rearranging files and discovered a few fractals that I had yet to share with the world. 

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Dancing Goddess


Dancing Goddess © Kelly Naylor 2007

Dancing Goddess © Kelly Naylor 2007

This is another of those fractals that just kept getting more fun as I added layers. I think this one has at least 20 layers.

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What’s Under the Water?


What's Under the Water? © Kelly Naylor 2007

What's Under the Water? © Kelly Naylor 2007

Another fractal... this one is kind of creepy. What exactly is that under the water? Is it an alien infestation, waiting patiently to take over the world? (Yes, I watch a lot of scifi and The X-Files.) Or is it the remains of a toxic waste dump? That's the joy of abstract art... you can decide for yourself. Ok, personally... I'm going with the alien story.

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Phoenix Rising


Phoenix Rising © Kelly Naylor 2007

Phoenix Rising © Kelly Naylor 2007

The middle reminds of some extremely cool marbles I had when I was a kid. Hmmm. Even then, I was a collector of "things" and a packrat. I don't seem to be having much luck changing that. The more I give things away, the more "stuff" comes into my life.

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Isis


Isis © Kelly Naylor 2007

Isis © Kelly Naylor 2007

Normally, I just keep the fractals "as is" after exporting from the fractal making program, but this time I trimmed the sides a bit. There was nothing there, after all. This one reminded me of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

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Dancing Atoms


Dancing Atoms © Kelly Naylor 2007

Dancing Atoms © Kelly Naylor 2007

Here's another adjective to use when talking about fractals... soothing. Life outside Cyberspace (aka "real life") has been such that "insane" seems so inadequate a word. Perhaps I shall blog about it in Random Ramblings. And perhaps not.

Fractals are my drug of choice these days, actually beating out caffeine. Go fractals!

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Fractals are one of my several obsessions.  It pleases me to share them with you.


Colors, Shapes, Infinity

Benoit Mandelbrot...

coined the term "fractal" in 1975.

Many important spatial patterns of Nature are either irregular or fragmented to such an extreme degree that... classical geometry... is hardly of any help in describing their form. ... I hope to show that it is possible in many cases to remedy this absence of geometric representation by using a family of shapes I propose to call fractals... or fractal sets. [Mandelbrot, "Fractals," 1977]