Kids Fractal Art Studio
Kids Fractal Art Studio
Make art from math. Fractals are scaled shapes that repeat forever. You can see fractals all around you in nature from lightning strikes to coastlines. This kid’s fractal art studio tool lets you explore six different types of fractals, cut out pieces, and then reassemble them into. your own art. If you would like to explore further, our Fractal Generator desktop tool allows you explore 22 fractals, cut shapes out of them, and then maneuver on an digital art canvas that you can draw on.
How to Use The Fractal Art Tool
Explore
Our fractal art tool allows you to explore six types of fractals; Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Multibrot, Tricorn and Phoenix.
From the main page you can select the fractal, change colors in ten background palettes and adjust the iteration slider for more or less detail. To zoom in mouse click and shift click to zoom out, in mobile, pinch to zoom in.
Cut Out Your Fractal Shapes
When you are happy with your fractal form, click on Cut Out in the top right corner and you will be taken to a new screen.
On this screen, you can select the shapes you want to cut out, and the colors can still be changed. The shapes available are fish scale, circle, hexagon, star, leaf, diamond, heart, teardrop, petal and crescent. Each shape can be reduced and enlarged in size as well as being tilted. If you prefer to make your own shape you can freehand a shape.
Assemble
When you are done, click on Assemble also on the right hand side and all your pieces will be waiting there for you on the next screen.
On this screen you can work with each piece as you select them. Each piece can be individually rotated, scaled, controlled for opacity, flipped, duplicated and deleted. You can also change the canvas background.
When you are done, you can export them as a file or transparent file.
A Simple Look at Fractals
Fractals are figures that repeat self similar scale of themselves forever. We label them as have infinite iteration or recursion (this means if you look at the edge of a fractal, you would see the same image written smaller, and that edge would also have a smaller version, and so on.
You could spend a lifetime looking at smaller and smaller images and never come to an end. Indeed you could go on forever and there would never be an end.
This is all done mathematically, the same equation over and over. Fractal figures are a visual way of showing this mathematical computation. The mathematic field of study is called Chaos Theory.
Interestingly, in fractal math we are graphing something that is more complicated than simple (X,Y) coordinates, instead we are graphing something called imaginary numbers. This is one of the reason fractals look the way that they do.
Imaginary numbers are numbers that cannot be put on the typical X,Y graph, instead they are considered the square root of a negative number and graphed perpendicular to the number line. Some fractal calculation, such as the most famous fractals, Mandelbrot and Julia fractal sets, have both a real number and an imaginary number and this oddity of results means they cannot be considered a line or plane, instead we calculate them as have fractal dimension.
Whew! What does that mean?
In practical rules it means that we can graph and explain nature. Much of the natural world conforms to fractal geometry, because as it turns out, fractals are an efficient way to pack a lot of surface area into a small space, which is why lungs and trees use branching patterns.
Nature rewards efficiency, the most efficient are the ones that survive. We see fractals in lightning, romanesco broccoli, flowers, ferns, river meanders, blood vessels even galaxies. It is easier to say what is not a fractal than what is.
Fractals are also beautiful, and in that though we have a tool that allows you to explore six types of fractal; Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Multibrot, Tricorn and Phoenix. These are six well-known fractal types.