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Fractal Question

Greasle
10/30/03 11:22 PM GMT
Hi all,
Question : When are you the author of a fractal-wallpaper?

a: If you created the formula of the fractal
b: if you changed something in a fractal thats not yours like colors
c: just if you found a nice view somewhere in the micro-cosmos of a fracktal thats not yours.


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TRACYJTZ
10/31/03 1:10 AM GMT
I don't know the answer to that question...it a good question actually. When I make fractals, I usually either use part of the fractal as an overlay on another image or i warp the fractal to make something else. I try to change everything about the original fractal. However, I personally think that the answer is a, b and c. I don't know if that makes me the "author"; but, I'd like to think that I am.
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Greasle
10/31/03 1:59 AM GMT
oh... thx Tracy...

You know a few of my " colected " fractals. I was planning to post a few here.
But I dit not because the formula/parameter of the fractals I used are from someone else. I use the word "colected" because the pictures are found and not created in a micro-cosmos of a fractal. I'm not the creator I'm some kinda explorer... I just discovered a nice picture. Discovered something that was there before I came. Not a momentum, a moment in time like a photo.

On the other thinking, how can someone be the author of 1+1=2 ? I mean how can you be a author of a formula. Mathematics is somthing the almighty created. just like all the nature that we like to post here in the form of a photo....

Wow this gets filosofical...
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*caedes
11/01/03 12:56 AM GMT
This is a good question. I think it's been covered well by the people at http://www.artslaw.org/.
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Greasle
11/01/03 2:39 AM GMT
hm.. i'm a bit dyslective.... so I dit a site-search on www.artslaw.org keyword " fractal " no hit. keyword " computer art " 1 hit but not related to copy-rights

On all other (fractal)sites I dit a search, the only things mentioned having copy-rights are pictures. never fractals, formulas or parameters.

I gonna post a few more ;-)

Thx
caedes
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Greasle
11/01/03 4:00 PM GMT
sorry...
I better stick to photografy......
its still not clear for me about this copy-rights from the parameters so I deleted the 2 fractals

sorry again
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::camerahound
11/01/03 7:02 PM GMT
When writing with words or in music, one is dealing with a finite palette; there are hypothetically only a certain number of combinations and permutations available. What constitutes creativity is what the artist uniquely creates from those elements.

In other words, you can't copyright individual letters or notes, but when you get into structure (stories, melodies) you can copyright the material.

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Greasle
11/01/03 7:23 PM GMT
aha...thx camerahound .... I think I understand... (my english is not hat good)

As long I dont know how much to mutate a fractal to make myself the author, I better dont post (mutated) fractals that surely are copyrighted allready by someone else, right ?
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