Montage - Creative Fractal Art

Version: 1.16+, Size: three discs, Author: Michael Rozdoba


... Montage will have a great deal of educational impact and value, as well as fulfilling its purpose for artistic creation. ... allows you to simulate and construct natural objects and forms of practically infinite variety ... with remarkable ease and speed. ... incredibly well finished ... efficiently coded ... able to render fractally generated objects and scenes in a matter of seconds, except for the most complex interations. ... strips away the mystery and confusion which surrounds the science of fractals and lets the layest of laymen not only produce marvellous imagery but also develop a grasp of this intriguing field of mathematics. Acorn User


Montage, written by Michael Rozdoba, provides what may be a unique path into the world of fractals. It enables the complexities of fractal geometry to be explored easily as an art form, by the creation of simple or complex pictures, and be fully understood as a mathematical process. Pictures of objects or scenes can be created by users with little or no knowledge of mathematics.


Here are some examples of the kind of picture that Montage can achieve:

[Joshua Tree sample]
You can click this image to get a bigger (63K) image or have a even larger image (292K).

[Sunflower sample]
You can click this image to get a bigger (35K) image or have a even larger image (405K).

Remember that these images can all be rendered with precision from just one image description, you choose the size Montage will render it. Not only that but with Montage you can zoom-in on a portion of an image and have that rendered in complete detail as well -- it's the miracle of Fractals:

[Sunflower detail]
You can click this image to get a bigger (35K) image of this detail of the sunflower image.

Here's what the program author and creator of these two images had to say about the Joshua Tree:


The program comes complete with a 70-page manual, a 20-page tutorial and an on-disk guide on how to generate superb fractuals. These include the steps needed to do produce a collage of a field of sunflowers.

Montage is a RISC OS application. It requires a minimum of 2Mb for practical applications, and 4Mb for hi-res colour work.


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