The Paul Carlson Fractal Museum

East Wing: First Gallery of Fractal Stalks

The images in this group were created using a variation of a method developed by Clifford Pickover in which pixels are plotted in certain colors if the absolute value of either the real or imaginary component of z falls below a specified value. In Mr. Carlson's variation of this method, this absolute value was converted to an index into one of two color ranges in the colormap, depending on whether the number of iterations was odd or even. A wide variety of equations were used to produce these images. Here are a few images (480 x 640 x 256 colors) selected from Mr. Carlson's very large collection: