Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

Love these pics. reminded me of a lot of the old dune covers, so thought I would post here.

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal ... ml#renders" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Those are erily organic and natural looking. I have a feeling fractals are going to turn out to be extremely usefull.

I can't bring to mind the Dune covers you're thinking of Simon, but Roger Dean immediately popped into mine.

Bruce Pennington did some of that stuff - not so much for Dune, but some of his other stuff is pretty fractal.
... a bit

A few other images spring to mind as well - but I can't remember the artist names and all my art books are in my very heavy pile of very heavy art books.

That stuff in the linky does look pretty incredible...

I grabbed a bunch of the more interesting ones in the office yesterday afternoon and put them in a folder to serve as my new desktop cyclers.

Was going to say that "Ice Cream from Uranus" was one of my faves ... but when I went to the page again just now to make sure I wasn't misremembering that title, I found this:

"Ice Cream From Neptune" What, Neptune* from our solar system? Neah, we're talking about a planet unique in all but the name, near the distant edge of the universe. They have advanced food making equipment, and an eye for detail, so they regularly consume attractive cornetto-esque dishes, sometimes in the shape you see above.
* Yes we renamed it. We mistakingly used the planet's old name that was in use until around 50,000 years ago. By another massive but convenient coincidence, they themselves renamed it for similar reasons to Professor Farnsworth's story from Futurama.