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Patrick B. Phillips
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E-mail: patrx@btinet.net
Location: Bismarck, ND
Specialty: Fractal art

Biography

About the Artist:


Patrick Phillips is the oldest of 10 children and raised in Mandan, ND. His early activities were that of a normal upbringing and educating, going on to the North Dakota State University majoring in pharmacy and a 25 year career in North Dakota in the town of Glen Ullin. Muscular dystrophy brought an end to that career and while relegated to a wheelchair, opened another pursuit of his artwork and genealogical research on the internet via the computer. He can credit his artistic abilities to early exposure to art and crafts by his mother and possibly a link via his heritage to illustrious ancestors like his great-great-great grandfather, Peter Glass, a foremost craftsman of the 19th century in marquetry, and distant “cousin” John Trumbull, a Revolutionary War era painter, whose paintings include “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” and other notable paintings.


Patrick’s works are mainly of the digital type, the majority being Fractal images created using various fractal generators on a computer and displayed as the image was rendered or as collages using a variety of fractal images to create various scenes or landscapes which may be used as computer screen backgrounds or printed. Some have even been used as adjuncts to photographs, as in the November image of this calendar.


Fractals are complex, detailed geometric patterns found throughout the natural world. In this case they are complex computer generated images or designs of amazing detail. They are created using mathematical formulae and are infinite in their ability to be viewed in ever increasing detail. The closer you look (zoom in) the more detail there is. Each image represents it's parent image (self similar) but are not static. They can be incredibly mundane or extraordinarily beautiful! New formulas create new fractals.


A second type of fractal, which Pat uses, are called flame fractals which are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was originally written in 1992 and released as open source, that is “free” software. Since then it has continually evolved and has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.


A nice thing about the latter fractal, is the ability to render them as transparencies which may be layered one upon another to create a complex scene as a collage over a photo or background using the Photoshop program.

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