Bart de Smit - The quadratic camera

Julia sets

If a camera is pointed at the screen that is projecting its image then we have a video feedback loop. For a plain camera this produces the image of a Droste effect.

If we do this with the quadratic camera, then the type of picture we get depends a lot on where the center of focus of the camera is located with resepect to the center of the screen. The result is a Julia set.

Here are some screen shots: