A few days ago, I was saying how I think my pictures are somewhat “old-school”, as in a little bit outmoded. And they are… if you compare them to what folks using more recent, sophisticated fractal generators can create. (The software I use to render mine, long forgotten by their own developers, miraculously run on Windows 10.) Style-wise, anyone can assess they predate this millennium. With their coarse contours and somewhat eroded colors, they’re quite distant from today’s standards. But that’s what a style does: it defines something and categorizes it within a time frame, distinguishing it from what came before and what followed.
These reflections led me to a particular word in my lexicon: quaint. Encompassing meanings that convey “old-fashioned”, “peculiar” or “attractively unusual”, the adjective feels especially fitting for my pictures: passé by my own admission, and odd by fractals’ very nature. So, as of today, this site has become Quaint Dimensions. I may have found a proper name after all…
Revised on 25025 April 19 for clarity.