Computer Graphics

HOP - Fractals in Motion

In the early nineties, I spent a considerable amount of time writing a screensaver called "HOP - Fractals in Motion" that specialized in two largely unknown kinds of strange attractors, one of them called "Hopalong" - referring to the way the attractor pixels jumped around the screen -, the other one called "Gumowski-Mira" after the two CERN physicists who discovered it when trying to compute the trajectories of subatomic particles.

The software, "HOP - Fractals in Motion", was popular at the time but it is outdated - it was written in the Pascal language for the extinct MS-DOS operating system. It can be run on today's operating systems only using a DOS Emulator software. Few people use HOP today although it has many unique features that I haven't seen anywhere else since.

If you want to download a copy, or look for more information and more example images, please check out the old HOP website. Some of the information provided might be outdated today though.

The eight images below exist as large scale prints (typically, 150 x 120 cm) and have been part of a number of exhibitions. Please contact me if you are interested in buying a print.


Computergrafik-Poster bei PosterXXL bestellen (German website)


Vie dans les Profondeurs (blau)
Vie dans les Profondeurs (blue)


Mira-Plankton (20 Tafeln)
Mira Plancton

Action Plotting
Action Plotting

Drei Wellen
Three Waves

Departure
Departure

Vie dans les Profondeurs (weiss)
Vie dans les Profondeurs (white)

Ereignishorizont
Event Horizon

Nebelkammer
Cloud Chamber




PicLens is a cool free browser plugin can display all computer graphics images on this page (and many more !) as a moving threedimensional gallery and fullscreen slideshow. (It will do the same thing to flickr images, Google image search, and many other image sites.) Install PicLens to see more than 30 of my computer graphics images

piclens

If you don't want to install the PicLens browser plugin, you can watch this lower-quality slideshow PicLens


Some of these and a few other HOP images can be seen on my flickr page.