After a couple weeks of silence, here is the start of a new series, Port 22.

A sweet red wine, a portal, a port of call? All interesting ideas, but the reality is quite mundane.

I developed the software using the Visual Studio development environment. A new version, Visual Studio 2022 has been released. I am porting my software to the new version.

This is a basic fractal image I had used as a default test in previous versions of the program. So the first goal while porting the software was to reproduce this image.

Last year I set a goal to make 150 blog posts, and I made over 300 posts. I cannot keep up that pace. This year my goal is 100 blog posts.

I am a little nervous about slowing down. I have had this web site for 25 years now. There has been many changes, and many reboots. There have been a few times when I said I was going to slow down, with the good intention of maintaining a slower pace, and then go a year or more between updates. I won't let that happen this time.

Mirror reflections at odd angles.

Here is the first of two very minimal pieces.

I completed the first one in this series some time last year. I had put together several low-resolution "sketches" as candidates for the series. I made a list of additional experiments I wanted to try. Vary the relative size of the black and color bands. Replace the rainbow with other colors, such as shades of silver and gold. Create and mix in a competing "White Rainbow". As usual, I got distracted with other things.

I am cleaning up and finishing some the better early candidates now. The additional experiments will have to wait. Perhaps I will get around to those and post a "Black Rainbow II" series in 2022.

Here is a series called black rainbow. I was experimenting with putting a black stripe between rainbow colors then twisting and distorting in various ways.

I am still cleaning up the hard drive Why? If you have not been following along, see the notes Footnotes #2 and Footnotes #3. In a way, this is a continuation of the footnotes series.

I created this one as part of the Sequence Fractals IV series, but then decided that it did not fit. I felt it had potential. I returned to it a couple of times, but I did not get anywhere.

Here is something with the hot palette from the Sequence Fractal series. Back then, I decided that it did not fit. Today, I decided it deserves a place in the footnotes series.

This is part of the Strange Zone series. Somehow I overlooked it when publishing the rest of the series.

This is a one-off piece. I was experimenting with different palettes.

sin(z²+c) #2

Here is the previous fractal with a monochrome palette. This formula has potential, I have played with it in the past and will likely return to it in the future.

sin(z²+c)

This one and the next are based on the usual escape time fractal algorithm, but the usual formula has been replaced by sin(z²+c)

exponents

This image is based on an escape time fractal type of loop but with a complex exponent. I had it prepared and ready to publish with the other complex exponent fractals, but somehow overlooked it.

Found one more for the square root set.

Square Roots #2

Square Roots #1

This is the first of two images I generated using the square root function in a typical escape-time fractal process. As with the previous set, I never found the traction for a deeper exploration.