Here is a grayscale fractal Mandelbrot set image generated by Alex Calothis (he offers his generator for download)
Mandelbrot sets are graphs that describe the rate of a certain behavior of points in the complex plane. Colors are assigned to them arbitrarily.
One common method over the years for assigning color to Mandelbrot sets resembles the functionality of the Photoshop gradient map.
Above is what happens if you use a Photshop gradient map to colorize a grayscale Mandelbrot set fractal.
UPDATE 4/27/2009
In a way, everything gets 'gradient mapped' by our brains, since nothing is actually 'colored.' Things just reflect (combinations of) wavelengths on a scale from lower to higher.
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Heyyyyy
your contents and experiments are simply awsome;
Thanks it will be realy usefull to me.
I have a regular use of photshop and begining with Maya.
I plan to use it for my artwork ( visit my blog > http://tropisme;wordpress.com)
And i plan to involved me into Archi renderding and i will love to have experience in Matte painting
long life> best regards
Armor