History and the Making of The Great Blue Mandelbrot

For all you explorers and adventures, for every one of you sailors and divers, for all who dream of ocean wind and open horizons, for those who still see the splash of blue on turquoise and feel the waters calling you back beneath the waves. For you.

The surrounding grid represents Euclid. The telescopic squares represent the formalized method of calculus set down by Newton. These crash upon the sharp shores of the Mandelbrot. The first two gave us architecture and invention. They could not, however, give us insight into the natural world; not the cells of our body, nor the stars in the heavens, nor even a thing as simple as the branching of a leaf.

Fractal geometry accomplished all that within the first 24-hours of its inception.

Mandelbrot's Golden Heart: You might recognize the "Great Blue" from my earlier versions such as this one (Spectral Recursion, Mar 2016, Instagram) (Spectral Iteration, Sep 2016, Amazon).

In 2017, new inspiration came in thanks to fellow fractalist Lamblyn (Instagram). She turned me on to the cross-hatching technique you see above.

The final point of inspiration -- The Great Blue Hole of Belize (Wiki). After years of planning to make the Mandelbrot into an island, I saw finally what it was destined to be -- a deep blue reef amid an ocean of turquoise.

Thus was born "The Great Blue Mandelbrot".

A special shout out in thanks to the group of artists and art lovers who gave me the feedback to finish this final version: Janet Brooks, Mark Mandel, LiLi Via, Debbie of Austin Batworks, Aswini of SESA PURE, and Gaea Phoenix.

"The Great Blue Mandelbrot" is a gift for all donors of $25 of more: The Fractal Museum and the Heroes of the Future https://fundly.com/the-fractal-museum-and-the-heroes-of-the-future