Another Language Performing Arts Company

History - Projects (2024)

Fractal Cards

By Elizabeth Miklavcic

Fractal Cards
A new incentive set of fractal greeting cards is available to contributing members of Another Language Performing Arts Company. Elizabeth Miklavcic has been creating fractal art for seven years and has experimented with thousands of abstract designs. Many of her explorations are available to view in the Art-of-the-Month archive area of the Another Language website.

A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over. – Description from Fractal Foundation Website