When I was a young boy I liked to read superhero comics. My favorite lesser known character was Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is a movie star now, but back in the early sixties he did not even have his own book. He only got a few pages each month in the back of Strange Tales comics.

Often times Doctor Strange would find himself in a zone between dimensions. The artist, Steve Ditko (better known for Spider-Man) would depict this strange zone with doors to other worlds and dimensions positioned at weird angles, with flimsy bridges between them, surrounded by plenty of sparkly and misty random artefacts. With all of this done in bright artificial colors, like a psychedelic drug trip. If you are not familiar, check out these cbr.com pages: Character Origin and Ditko's Doctor Strange Art.

For me, today's image, and the rest of the Strange Zone series, comes close to recreating the childish awe I felt from those early Doctor Strange comics.

More snowcapped mountains.

New Series, Brr. Lots of white, vaguely reminiscent of snowcapped mountains.

Again, mostly pictures without words. I am not going to try to explain how I generated these. If anyone is interested, send me a message or leave a comment.

As for meaning and emotions, I leave that to the viewer to decide. Personally, I enjoy winter mountain sports. So despite the messy chaotic nature of these images, I find them optimistic. I long for the winter to come and the snow to start falling.

Leave a comment on what you see.

The previous images in this series were mostly created a month ago. The final touches, the finishing was done a week ago. As was the selecting, sorting, ordering, to put them into a series.

I have stopped describing the algorithms that generate these. I feel every one of these images deserves some words. But what is there to say? When I try to explain something, I end up just stating the obvious. So what follows is mostly just pictures without words.

If you have any questions about anything, just ask in the comments. I will explain as best I can.

I love these messy chaotic images. I know they are not for everyone's taste. But I find them fascinating. I encourage you to look closely and discover the fine details.

I mentioned that I consider these constructive. That I apply selected formulas, and colors, to achieve a desired effect. I am getting better at doing that, but often the effect comes with side effects.

Here I started with everything expanding out radially from the lower left quadrant. Then I got the color dialed in. Mostly black and white, which makes the blue pop, with a little complementary rust on the left. Then I got the details on the left side, the streaking, the contrails, the 'eye of the storm'.

After many attempts, either I gave up, or after studying it long enough I discovered it was actually perfect as it, or the universe was telling me this is the way it must be. In truth, now I have no desire to change any of it.

My program is set up to apply effects (formulas) globally. I am working on modifications to apply effect to isolated areas. It is not there yet, and I am having plenty of fun as-is.

The faux-fractal formulas of the previous series, along with some new ones, become tools of algorithmic art. They are operations to apply to create an effect.

I have stopped posting coordinates and formulas. In fact I have stopped keeping track of them. I still have the program code for all of these. If you are interested, just ask in the comments and I will try to provide information.