Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fractal Flame

Apophysis fractal flame[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Jul 2010 at 21:49:06 (UTC)

A fractal flame using Apophysis software.

Reason: A fractal is a mathematical concept. It is a way of describing complex concepts with very subtle rules.

Fractals are a concept pioneered by Benoît Mandelbrot, and is a concept that you see in many movies and many batch-processing systems. Many fractals require exorbitant levels of parallel computing.

While it is somewhat unrelated, a TED talk by Benoît himself can be found here.

Articles in which this image appears: Apophysis (software)
FP category for this image: Other Artwork
Creator: Gut Monk

Support as nominator --Gut Monk (talk) 21:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
What is it? Matthewedwards : Chat 21:59, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps its EV might be better served in Fractal or Fractal flame rather than as the last image in a gallery in the article you've listed. I still have no idea what it is. The articles aren't the best at all. :( Matthewedwards : Chat 22:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: We can't promote something that only appears in a gallery. J Milburn (talk) 22:16, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Removed by nominator I regretfully kind of agree. This concept needs an article. Although it is important one day. Gut Monk (talk) 22:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, nevertheless, for bringing it to our attention. I now see that there is some amazing fractal-based art out there, like Subdermal Implants, which was created using Apophysis 2.07. Greg L (talk) 22:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]