This man makes fractals without a computer, using cameras pointed at 4K screens
This man makes fractals without a computer, using cameras pointed at 4K screens Mark Frauenfelder 5:00 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 video feedback fractals — Image: Dave Blair / YouTube In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool. He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude improvement, I finally achieved 4K.
- ▪This man makes fractals without a computer, using cameras pointed at 4K screens Mark Frauenfelder 5:00 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 video feedback fractals — Image: Dave Blair / YouTube In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fract
- ▪Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool.
- ▪He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude improvement, I finally achieved 4K.
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This man makes fractals without a computer, using cameras pointed at 4K screens Mark Frauenfelder 5:00 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 video feedback fractals — Image: Dave Blair / YouTube In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool. He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude improvement, I finally achieved 4K. This took some doing since I had to figure out how to get analog hue, saturation, brightness and contrast knobs like you'd find on old TV sets to control 4K screens." Four years ago, in Make, Blair said 4K monitors with the knobs he needed weren't affordable yet. "Maybe in 2030 — but I'm hoping before then!" he wrote. He didn't have to wait that long.
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