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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Zoom into Seahorse Valley
Hartmut Jürgens
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Zoom into Seahorse Valley - Hartmut Jürgens
Mandelbrot's set is about the most complicated object mathematics ever dealt with. Its margin is of a bizarre beauty. This is why the Bremen computer graphics of the edges of Mandelbrot's set, particularly of the so-called "Sea-Horse-Valley", went around the world.
The wish to see this "infinite" voyage as a computer animation was expressed quite often, but such a project seemed impossible due to gigantic calculation times for thousands of images. But "Zoom into Seahorse Valley" now actually shows this zoomed voyage as computer animation. This was made possible through a complicated homotopica process. So from a relatively small number of image sections interlocked with each other a complete film in the style of the classic "Powers of Ten" is created. The stages of enlargement are visualized by squares blended in
for each power of ten. The highest level of enlargement is 100,000,000 times the original image. (Hartmut Jürgens, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe)
Mandelbrot's set is about the most complicated object mathematics ever dealt with. Its margin is of a bizarre beauty. This is why the Bremen computer graphics of the edges of Mandelbrot's set, particularly of the so-called "Sea-Horse-Valley", went around the world.
The wish to see this "infinite" voyage as a computer animation was expressed quite often, but such a project seemed impossible due to gigantic calculation times for thousands of images. But "Zoom into Seahorse Valley" now actually shows this zoomed voyage as computer animation. This was made possible through a complicated homotopica process. So from a relatively small number of image sections interlocked with each other a complete film in the style of the classic "Powers of Ten" is created. The stages of enlargement are visualized by squares blended in
for each power of ten. The highest level of enlargement is 100,000,000 times the original image. (Hartmut Jürgens, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe)
Hartmut Jürgens was born 1955 in Bremen, studied mathematics in his hometown, obtained his diploma in 1979 and a doctorate in 1983. Hartmut Jürgens worked as systems adviser for a computing Company in 1984 and in 1985 took over the dynamic systems/graphics laboratory of Bremen University.
Title of the animation presented for Prix Ars Electronica '87:
"Zoom into Seahorse Valley", 2'00”, Bremen 1986.
Examples of previous works by the Jürgens/Peitgen/Saupe team: "Der Lorenzattraktor" from the Computer animation "Fly Lorenz", 1984, and area of attraction of the Newton procedure: "Clown".
Title of the animation presented for Prix Ars Electronica '87:
"Zoom into Seahorse Valley", 2'00”, Bremen 1986.
Examples of previous works by the Jürgens/Peitgen/Saupe team: "Der Lorenzattraktor" from the Computer animation "Fly Lorenz", 1984, and area of attraction of the Newton procedure: "Clown".