Installations + Artists
The featured artist in the Fractal Worlds Exhibition
Who is Julius Horsthuis?
The opening year of ARTECHOUSE Houston
What is 2024?
The name of the free, open-source software used by Julius Horsthuis to render these 3D fractals.
What is Mandelbulb 3D (or MB3D)?
Seashells, Coastal Shorelines, mountain ranges, snowflakes, branching trees
What are natural examples of fractals?
Julius Horsthuis's primary professional background for 15 years before focusing entirely on fractals.
What are Visual Effects (VFX)?
This video artwork, directed by Yann Nguema, is a generative journey through 3D fractals and imagined biology.
What is Floating Points?
The resolution of our Immersion Gallery
What is 18k?
The two ways fractals can be captured using Mandelbulb 3d?
What are image stills and video flythroughs?
This is the core property of fractals, meaning a small section of the shape resembles the whole.
What is Self-Similarity?
The year Julius Horsthuis first published his first fractal film online, marking the start of his 3D fractal journey.
What is 2013?
The number of distinct acts or chapters in the cinematic experience presented in the Immersion Gallery.
What is Four (Prelude, Nature, Architecture, Coda)?
Who are... Trippy-experience seekers, Date Night couples, STEM lovers, Families, Tourists, (Thoughtful answer)
This is the number of spatial dimensions (not including time) that the Mandelbulb set extends.
What is three?
The origin of fractal art
What is a formula, math, or equation?
(It's explored and captured, not created)
What Julius Horsthuis explicitly says he is not, preferring to act as an explorer rather than a creator of the complex formulas.
What is a Mathematician?
This interactive, gesture-based installation in Gallery 2 allows visitors to manipulate fractals in real-time.
What is the Fractal Lab?
This is the core purpose of the exhibition: to offer audiences a chance to experience this discipline not as abstraction, but as art, architecture, and awe.
What is Mathematics (or Math)?
The complex, three-dimensional shape that extends the 2D Mandelbrot set into 3D space.
What is the Mandelbulb?
The reason fractal art often feels "trippy" or mind-bending, because the brain can't easily find a beginning or end to the pattern.
What is Infinite Detail (or Endless Iteration)?
Julius Horsthuis’s approach to art is often described as this, meaning he focuses on composition, color, and cinematic framing, influenced by his background.
What is Cinematic (or Filmic)?
This meditative installation in Gallery 1 is specifically described as exploring how nature gives rise to complexity.
What is Nascence?
The sound technology used in the Immersion Gallery, creating a fully spatialized audio experience.
What is Hyperreal Sound (or 31-channel sound)?
The software used by artist Yann Nguema in Floating Points to create a generative fractal audio video experience?
C++ and GLSL
The Mandelbrot Set, the Mandelbulb (3D fractal), the Julia Set, and Julia 4D (Quaternion fractals)
What are the equations/formulas of fractals?
The occupation Julius likens his artistic process to, rather than that of a mathematician.
What is a National Geographic explorer?