Fractals can be used for modeling ranging from biology to medecine to economics to geography to music and even fine art.

Why fractal images are so fascinating? Where does their power and spreading success come from? Beauty is subjective. However, it is a fact that fractal images are spontaneously appreciated by a large public, who find them beautiful. Is it due to their complexity, to their elegance, to their infinity or their amazing colours? They are beautifull, but why ? what is beautiful here is not necessarrally beautifull there. beauty tends to vary with culture .... However, fractals seems to be fascinating universally.

Fractals are non euclidien images ; we had experienced this concept with cubist paintors in the beginig of the xx' century. They wanted to break the limits, the conventions, the horizon of the time, to face the unknown, the unsaid, the hidden. Among this limits was the fact that we live in a three dimentional space and that the vision we have of it is submited to the laws of perspective. (time , mouvment are new dimensions to cubist paintings, as well as distorded perspective.) We let go of the notion of rational euclidien images, to welcome umpredectible and unprogrammed proccesses. That cirtenlly is fascinating. Fractals are every where and we might have always made fractals without noticing it. See paintings of Jackson pollock .

Jackson Pollock

Since fractals model nature very well, they can be used to generate realistic landscapes on sunsets, mountains, rough terrains, lakes, trees, and even planets and stars, a very good example of this kind of realisations are the images of Kenton Musgrave.

Kenton Musgrave

"landscapes call to my mind and heart, instinctually, in the same way an attractive young woman does."

"I wish you to witness my reverence for Nature, and to be drawn in by the quiet beauty I have found there and been able to conjure in numbers, through a bizarre, improbable, novel and Byzantine process. It is all, technically speaking, Magic. " Kenton Mustgrave.

However, artists use fractals to create as well completly abstract images or dreamlike landscapes like Sylvie Gallet, and Gregory Sams.

Sylvie Gallet

The use of fractals is probably like themselves infinite.

Music can also be created using fractals. Most musicians that hear the new sounds beleive that the variations are very musical and creative. I am not going to develop that subject.