Thomas Barbey (Switzerland/USA)
Geneva-born Las Vegas-based artist has been a photographer for over twenty years. More recently, he has been doing Black and White Photomontages for the sole purpose of doing Fine Art. He has combined several images taken over a period of twenty years to create surreal situations with the help of the enlarger in a dark room. His work has a specific style and is very characteristic. The picture takes you into an imaginary world where you can see the captain telling the passengers to fasten their safety belts and get prepared for the descent, and so on. Thomas exhibits in galleries throughout the world and is included in many private collections.
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Is this a new way of bringing the Mandelbrot set to life? Each number on the complex plane, c, is repeatedly squared to give a new value, and then added to the original value c. This gives a path for each c that takes it around the plane. Those that don’t run off to infinity are in the Mandelbrot set. This animation allows the c to move along its path, and colours the plane at the starting position c with the colour of the plane at the end of the path. The plane is coloured so it is black everywhere with a rainbow disk in the centre [so at time 0, when the points haven’t started moving, we just see the rainbow disk]. As time progresses, after a series of bifurcations and pulsing beats, we see the familiar Mandelbrot set take form. [interactive] [code] [more]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6a3895303d832d2155178625513b6383/tumblr_molgcgdWRn1qfg7o3o1_250.gif)
















