They are entangled in an overload of media made available through the world wide web, MTV, glossy magazines and underground radio stations. They attend rave parties where they dance in total random order, watching clips of Manga mixed in with psychedelics swirls la fractals. Fractals have been around for a long time. Mathematicians have known something of fractals for about a century, but artistic consciousness of them is older. 11 Artists have always been keen observers of the natural world.
Fractals are evident in the works of all artists.
Leonardo s sketches of turbulent water is obvious. A body of art with strong and consistent fractal content is typical of classical Chinese and Japanese landscape painting. Scholars of M.C. Escher s lithographs will notice the conscious fractal content. Photographer Ansel Adams even wrote about photographing textures in a way that indicated a deep and implicit understanding of the fractal concept. 13 Fractals are used in physics, biology, sociology and even motion-picture simulation.