This kind of thing is interesting from the Art point of view, I think.

I found it by typing "Art" into google (which makes this a quota posting - well spotted), and then going here and then here and then to this and finally to this.

I do actually quite like this particular one, although I prefer the blue bits to the brown bits (which I think have a somewhat Monty Python feel to them) and unlike some of the other pictures in this set it has no appalling poem or ghastly music attached, which is a bonus.

Obviously, Art Critics hate pictures like this, and they presumably hate the internet for serving up such stuff as Art hit number three out of twenty zillion. Too many trailer trash people actually like them, and popular things need no critics to explain them and decide about them. Popular stuff may attract critics later, who reminisce about what fun it used to be and how great it still is, but no critics are needed to get it going in the first place.

But such critics do have a point about the idiocy of people who seriously like these kind of fractal pictures, as opposed to just, you know, liking them, because they're quite pretty. This "Hawk" person is obviously not someone you'd want to know personally.

The other thing that is wrong with these things is that they are too easy to do. Art-wise, they are cheating. I don't mean that I could do them myself. I wouldn't know where to begin. But there are thousands who can. And they do it not with months of devotion, but with half a page of equations, a personal computer and a few clicks of the keyboard. And easy isn't art. It can't be. They are more like mathematical discoveries, that happen to look nice and are best expressed in pictorial form.

Nevertheless, I do like these pictures. And this doesn't make me a mad hippy any more than liking the Rolling Stones makes me a philandering libertine or a Marianne Faithful clone.

But I do admit it. If I'd had more time to do this posting, I would have found something more cultural.