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Digital Graphic Rendering - Windham Hill Crop Circle
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Digital Graphic Rendering - Windham Hill Crop Circle
Windham Hill, England - Crop Formation
Triple Julia Fractal Desig
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The famous 'Triple Julia' crop circle at Windham Hill in Great Britain makes a
beautiful digital graphic rendering because of it's fractal composition. In graphics
terminology, 'Fractal' is a term (coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975) referring to
objects built using recursion, where some aspect of the limiting object is infinite and
another is finite, and where at any iteration, some piece of the object is a scaled
down version of the previous iteration.
Renderings from photographs are possible in a vector format only where contrast
and lighting are such that all details of the image are clearly defined. Other forms of
rendering a photo exist through using various plug-in filters in software packages
such a PhotoShop ... however resolution and therefore enlargement capability are
restricted.
The advantage of a vector rendering, such as the example on this page, is that the
finished image can be scaled almost limitlessly without loss of clarity.
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Image: Nick Nicholson ©2004
The Rendering
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This crop circle exhibits the fractal beautifully! The symmetry of this crop circle
(formation) would make a great logo ...or piece of art.
The fractal nature of this design demonstrates how a singular shape can be
arranged and iterated into an image of something far more spectacular. The digital
rendering below demonstrates how surrounding and / or background imagery has
the ability to enhance an image by isolating it visually, yet add to the graphic appeal
at the same time.
Fractal Fantasy from Space?
This crop formation covered a thousand
feet in diameter with 194 circles in spiral
arms. The largest circle (center) was 47
feet in diameter. In the pattern's arms
circles measured from 28' diameter
(largest} to 17" diameter (median) to the
smallest circles which were 9' in diameter
