I just found a file I've been hunting for over a month, which set me off on this subject.

Way back before I had enough RAM to run GIMP, I still had to play around with my fractals. I came up with this sea-shell one in Tiera-zon that made me think of Botticelli's Venus. So I made my own "Venus on the half shell" using MS Paint!



Back in 2001 I thought of 640x480 as large! It took ages to crank out a fractal even that size, and my screen resolution was 800x600 -- a recent upgrade from a ghastly 640x480 with only 24 colors. My computers were others' castoffs.

I had discovered that I could shift-drag small selections around in Paint to make multi-colored smears and shaded forms. That was how I created this rooster out of fractal fragments:



From yet another ancient fractal generator, I derived an underwater scene:



I've never been able to reproduce anything like that ghostly jellyfish looking fractal.

Things are a lot different now. I have decent computers and monitors, and I can GIMP 'til I drop. I still put a lot of myself into my work

I like them all Matera.