He found himself impoverished after his grandson gambled away his fortune, Hokusai started painting
again after he had already retired and given away his name.
The title of his most famous painting is variously translated "In the Hollow of the Coast at Kanagawa"
and "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". It was the first of a 36-part series of views of Fuji-San.
Hokusai used various mathematical elements in the image, including basing the waves on circles and
of course, Fuji is a triangle.
The threatening "fingers" of the wave are fractal-like.
Fractals are produced using an "iteration process", this is where we start with a number and then feed
it into a formula. We get a result and feed it back into the formula, getting another r sult, and so on and
so on..
Fractals start with a complex number. Each complex number produced gives a value for each pixel on
the screen, the higher the number of iterations, the better the quality of the image.
KANAGAWA
11-1-14--1-7-1-23-1
2-1-5-1-7-1-5-1
23
5
For info on Fractals:
http://m.intmath.com/complex-numbers/fractals.php