About the images :

All these images have been made in Ultrafractal, without any further modification except resizing and sharpening.
Ultrafractal is designed to plot fractals like the Mandelbrot Set or Julia sets, but it's incredible possibilities allow to explore a wide area of geometry (Tilings, Polyhedrons,...), as well as many types of fractals (Hilbert and von Koch curves, Brownian clouds, some iterated function systems).
Ultrafractal use layers similar to those in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. The color of a given pixel on a layer is determined only by a succession of computation performed on the pixel coordinates. This could seems rather restrictive at first sight, but, thanks to the layer feature, it's possible to make "worked" images and even realistic scenes (see the space scene gallery). Moreover it allows to draw quickly patterns that would be either impossible or very long to produce by hand or with a standard graphic program.
Why Paramathematical ? Well, because some of them can have a more or less obvious mathematical interpretation, some not, even if they are all strictly algorithmic.

If you have questions, suggestions or comments, feel free to mail me.

Note about copyright : All these images are copyrighted, they are not in the public domain. You can download them only to use them in a strictly personal way (as wallpaper for instance). You're not authorized to put them on a website or display them publicly in any way. If you have a doubt, please mail me.
 

About me :

I'm Samuel Monnier, and I'm a Ph.D. student at the section of mathematics of the University of Geneva (but I'm physicist, actually...).
I began drawing fractals around 1996 with a (very slow) home-made program in Q-Basic and discovered Ultrafractal in 1998. 
I've written some formulas for Ultrafractal that you can download at the Ultrafractal Formula Database. The helpfiles are available here to download and here to browse.