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an oldie but greatie!Beautifull!Thank you.

See the MetaSynth Package and U & I Software's Artmatic Pro for awesome examples of translating Fractals into music! Yes it is possible.

Translating the pretty mandelbrot picture into music would be difficult and turning it into good music would be impossible. However, a way to get "sonic trajectories" would be to translate the complex equation (which I take it Eric you are familiar with) z=z^2+C into the polar form Ae^(i*2*Pi*w)= Ae^(i*4*Pi*w)+C with i being the square root of negative 1. The reason for this form is we have A, amplitude, and 2*Pi*w, which is frequency, the only two quantities you need to make music. Here in lies the isomorphism you desire. So Eric, you can develop a table of amplitudes and frequencies, you'll probably have to scale the numbers so to be in the audible range, (Toss a maximum value for A too so you don't blow any speakers). Then just choose how fast you want the table to be read, e.g. each iteration plays for 1 second and then plays the next. This is music based on the mandelbrot set, how it relates to the picture is each point in the picture has a musical trajectory. For this reason when you listen to the sounds it probably won't remind you of the picture at all. the sound relates to a single point in the picture not the picture as a whole. You'll still have plenty of rhyme, reason, symmetry and periodicity to the sound though. such is the math...

Great stuff, however I'm sceptical about mapping the madelbrot set to musical parameters :-(

Very good question. What to map to where, sound is in time dimesion also, not just 2d.

next problem: how can i bring the geometric beauty to senseful readout values? reading from bottom to top or left to right will not have the wanted effect...

good idea (thomas)! ive got similar ideas, but the problem is: while rendering the fractal, reaktor is not able to do something else. (maybe read out the table after rendering and meanwhile stop calculating ???) coming soon...

So! How about trying a pixel to pitch or grain conversion for these (ala-metasynth)? You guy's are apreciated by us who have little time (patience) ****

W O W , A M A Z I N G ! ! ! ! Fractal in Reaktor,and Mandelbrot reach a new level..... Very nice.....