Any of the more "Artistic" Aspies?

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Feedback or attention can be overwhelming, including the positive kind (at least for me anyway), but that sounds fun.

same. i never have any explanations. it's a picture because it's not supposed to be composed of words. there!

yes i did for a small while. kaleidoscopes became boring to me because they always repeated their patterns on the same plane of expression after one revolution of the ...."barrel" i guess it may be called (the thing you twist).
after three revolutions, i put the devices down as i had seen enough. then when i dismantled one and saw the source pattern, and the manner of segmental reflection, i lost interest completely.

maybe i am a philistine but there one goes.

i liked spirographs on the night of the christmas that i got one. after a while i saw that there was a very limited number of expressions achievable with a spirograph.
the cogs had various numbers of teeth, and before long, i could visualize what pattern that marrying the cogs (inner to outer cogs , and outer to inner cogs) would trace, so i did not bother to do it in physicality for long.

they looked like loop laced doilies, and so once i had made about 3, i had seen them all.

i more liked to look at things like feathers through microscopes, and i liked to see that the same overall pattern was re-expressed in ever diminishing planar extensions (endlessly (almost)).
i believed the length of the "coastline" of a small feather would be many hundreds of kilometers, if it could be stretched out to a straight line.

an arbitrary example on a larger scale may be that the coastline of Norway (capital "n" to not upset norwegian members) is 25,148 km, and i am fascinated about progressive invaginations that themselves are invaginated on a smaller scale, and the process of invagination can be eternally subdynamic if one is not in the physical world of substance.

there are so many things in nature that can be seen to follow similar "subordinations" of design.

i think that i do not want to share with artists, my patterns. they will correctly say that my patterns convey no emotion whatsoever, and they were not the product of my dexterous hand. all they are are inevitable expressions of my formulae that create them.

but for me the fun is in the formula, and not it's physical representation, however i am delighted to see that some formulae create pleasing and intrictate patterns. i look carefully at the pictorial result of each formula, but i never really look at the pictures more than once.

i am not saying that i write a formula without an image in mind. i do try to achieve a pre-imagined image in my mind, but i have more fun crafting the code to achieve the image, than looking at the finished result.

i am sorry i am not very connected with how to reply to people at the moment, and i have written too much, and i am "dying" to get to the end of this sentence.

i can not possibly answer this comprehensively in this post.

there is so much to say.

i suggest for you to google "fractal mathematics" and "fractal formulas" (people rarely use the word "formulae")

never the less i can pm you (i do not like to pm people at all) with the code i wrote to achieve any of those pictures i posted.

the code is very long, and unless you can intuitively decipher code, it is not of much value to do so. you would have to "decipher" it because i wrote my own interpreter to handle the coding of my programs that execute my formulae.

but if you wish, i can post code to you.

I don't agree that your fractals convey no emotion. There's emotion in the choice of colors. Also, it's not true that all artists have a completely original picture in their mind that they create. Art can also be a process of discovery where the person creating the art doesn't necessarily have complete conscious control over the end result. Even if the patterns come from a formula this doesn't mean they aren't legitimate creations.

I also have some fractal artwork which I created several years ago if anyone is interested.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13669377@N02/sets/72157603750309894/detail/

I've been good at art for ages. It all started with drawings of cartoon characters, to comic strips, to paintings. Now I do a lot of art, and I think it's fun. In fact, I study Art at school for my GCSEs.