Mike Brown's Computer-Generated Image Gallery

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Modern computers provide the user with a bewildering variety of means of generating images. The images in this gallery are generated by programs that have a mathematical core, such as fractal generating programs, as opposed to programs that emulate painting techniques. The images may subsequently be imported into image editors to utilise the facilities there and refine them further.

The use of such techniques constitutes a welcome opportunity to explore a new art form brought about by the power of the desktop computer. It might give the impression that the art form has little relationship with photography and does not belong to a photographic gallery. In fact, the controls enable one to compose images, select colours, select the amount of detail and emulate illumination and so on. Thus, I find that I go through virtually the same processes as I do when producing classical landscapes although there is more scope for creativity. It seems to me that there is now a seamless transition from photography to art where defining categories has become a problem.

Please note that due to the compression of the images for display on the internet, they have lost a significant amount of the detail that is present in the originals.

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