(Continuing from the previous post) That was forty-plus years ago. After awhile, it became been-there/done-that. Everyone was doing it, and they all start to look the same. I stuck with it longer than most. But eventually I too tired of the detailed perfection of fractals and moved on to messier, and less mathematical art.

By the way, this is an alternate coloring of the same fractal shape as the previous post.

Sometime around 1980 I saw a fractal image for the first time in an article in Scientific American. I am a computer programmer and a mathematician, and I would dabble with computer generated art in my spare time. But I never seen anything like the fractals in that article. I was hooked.

Janus looks to the past and the future. As I mentioned at the start of the series, I am working on a new program to build computer art. Up until now, the Janus series has been looking back, as I finish up the unfinished backlog in the previous program. Looking in the other direction, towards the future, here is a fractal I made in the new program.

In the next two, I add more complexity to the color blobs.

I pulled Janus #26 from some previous work for further development. In the posts that followed, I removed the folds and edges. I wanted a smooth blending of the colors.

After going down that path a few steps, I decided to return and embrace the folds and edges.

A few more follow. No sharp edges or texture lines.

Despite the previous comments (Janus #28), I do not want to abandon this idea yet. Here I stick with the blended, blurred colors, but with more going on. The line between "blurred background", and "intriguing abstract art with blurred colors" may be hard to define. I am comfortable that this one is on the good side of that line.

These images do not seem to going anywhere. They might make good backgrounds, but they are not too exciting. Perhaps someday I may use them as background in my art.

It seems like everything today has a blurred background, phone screens, websites, computer operating systems. Kudos to whoever did it first, but now it is just repetitive.

The previous piece stood out in my mind because of the smooth blending of translucent colors. It also had sharp edges and a few texture lines. I decided to remove the edges and lines and then focus on the color blending.

Here is another one that was set aside and forgotten. I have resurrected it and generated a few variation for the current series.

It has smooth blending colors, with larger regions introducing new colors.

I like when there is a noticeable change in density across an image. But after letting the previous work mature for a few days, it started to feel like I tried to cram in too much. Here is a (not wholly accurate) "zoom" of the central figure.

Here is a something with a slightly redder palette.