#fractal magic

[thesorceresstemple]

[magic-study]

I might be a genius or just sleep deprived.

I remember “techno witchcraft” being a thing a few years ago. Is it still? If so, I think this could be a good method for it. (Someone else has probably thought of it already, but give me my moment.)

Way back in high school, I stumbled onto the concept of fractal art when trying to figure out a topic for one of my classes. I admit to not having a great understanding of it, but the basic idea is that you plug in some numbers and you get a cool piece of art that repeats itself as you zoom in.

To use this magically, use numbers related to the target and your goal. A birthday, a special date, today’s date, the date of an exam that’s coming up, birthdays of two or more people to strengthen their bond, the time on the clock, the number of minutes until you need your goal completed, the target’s name (A = 1, B = 2, etc)… so many things are numbers!

Then you can zoom into the picture to find a piece you like, then do whatever you want with the image. Set it as a background, print it out to hang it somewhere, give it to the target of your work, pin it to a poppet, etc.

Someone who’s more knowledgeable about math could do a lot with this, I’m sure, but as a layman even I can see there’s some potential here. The infinite repetition is powerful, I’m positive.

Anyway, these are the types of things that my brain comes up with at middle-of-the-night-o’clock, so I should try to get back to sleep. Please let me know what you all think of this!

[themanicnami]

To support @cosmic-witch using fractal art in her craft, I decided to turn some of my sigils into fractals!~ Anyone may use these as they feel fit.

In order left to right:

I am motivated to do work

I am energized for the day

I love myself

I will focus on the positive, not the negative

My school work will improve

I will have vivid dreams

I am calm and relaxed

Negativity be gone

Made using the free fractal art maker: http://weavesilk.com/ 

[magic-study]

I’m still trying to figure out fractals, what the numbers represent, etc. but here’s one of my tech magic experiments. I turned the letters of the target’s name and what I want for them into numbers and plugged it all in, so here’s what we got.

[rc2208]

The Magical World Of Fractals

The Magical World Of Fractals

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[justascratch]

Worldbuilding junk

Let’s talk about homunculus gestalts. 

homunculus gestalts are created when a humanoid or otherwise magically viable structure is charged with concentrated, purposeful magic. Whereas golems are just animated and then commanded, homunculus are like, magical robots, with the magic being coded to provide a certain mindset, logical reasoning, and simple basic sentience to do tasks golems are either too unwieldy to do or too coarse. 

Because of this, homunculus are often used as personal magical assistants, often providing spells or sigils to their creators, like magic secretaries

Ironically enough, because of the modernization of magic, some homunculi are employed as actual secretaries, most people who talk to them would describe their speaking style as like speaking to an automated message, only more responsive. 

it’s important to note, homunculi aren’t fully sentient, they’re basically a programmed construct meant to do more comprehensive tasks, there’s literally nothing in the world as sentient as a human, yet

I mentioned this before, how there’s certain magical rights groups that wants to ban the use of homunculi in the workplace, since homunculi are often used as artificial “scab labor”, and more often than not will be exploited in more dangerous work as disposable workers. Opponents to this view often cite how homunculus gestalts don’t feel true pain, and are as sentient as a computer program, but to appease these labor groups, most industrial homunculi are created to be as inhuman looking as possible, reinforcing the belief that homunculus gestalts are not truly alive. This technique is often seen as underhanded, but there does exist a double standard in most magical construct rights groups when it comes to how human the construct looks. Therefore, making a gestalt less human looking is usually enough to silence to the picketing.

[justascratch]

I should write more about fractal magic soon, i keep forgetting to

[justascratch]

Left brained magic faxx

The x's are to show how cool the facts are

extreme

tubular

The magic names are not indicative of what you think, left brained black magic isn't voodoo and spirit summoning, the branches describe the circumstances under which the magic is conjured.

Magic, also known as abstraction, is the branch of magic that deals in complex acts hidden behind simple interfaces. This is the basis of the cell phone app magic programming. Basically, abstraction is doing a lot, or a big thing, without seeming like it. Left brained magicians have really streamlined and made abstraction more accessible as a medium of conducting magic. Early abstraction would involve linking a rune or equation to a much larger set of equations, and was generally a lot more time consuming, since it involved calculations based on values the magician could not account for until a value was used in the equation. Computing simplifies this immensely, making abstraction one of the fastest, and most used, branch of left brained magic

Deep magic, or esotericism, is a more recent branch of left brain magic that refers to the use of older, more heavily guarded and secret, techniques in conjuration. Because of this, many esotericism techniques involve various geometric runes, sigils, patterns, and the like, drawn with mathematical precision in order to resonate with the fractals of the physical plane. The methods behind rune geometry are often a common topic among newer left brained magicians, as the math behind them is a lot more straightforward, but rune geometricists, mathematicians who specialize in geometry-based magic, aren't very forthcoming with how to draw them, and esotericism involves a lot more studying of old techniques and patterns, along with actually showing enough aptitude to get noticed by the local scribes, as esotericism techniques are to be shared by them, and geometricists, only.

Black magic is antitheoretical magic, and often the first type of left brained magic that young left magicians will use, either knowingly or unknowingly. The field of antitheoretical magic is still, fittingly enough, very much unknown to the left brained community. Where abstraction involves hidden calculations, and esotericism has old techniques, antitheoretical magic just is. There's no real explanation on how it works, other than it just does. Scholars and scribes seem to believe that black magic is a sort of safety net against incorrect calculation or improper rune geometry, often acting as a self preserving phenomenon. Antitheoretical magic manifests when a coding sequence, geometric pattern, fractal equation, or similar fractal manipulation device, should not work, and yet does. It's also believed that this could be due to the magician's innate fractal manipulation kicking in and "filling in the missing spaces" so to speak, willing a magic to work even when it doesn't. Magicians who practice, or study, Antitheoretical magic tend to be seen as slackers grasping at straws, only utilizing magic on the bare minimum level. But most antitheoretical scholars will tell you that there is still a lot more to black magic besides being a failsafe.

Okay, that's about it for now, i should think more about right brained magic, also coming up with a more concise gestalt guide, we'll see, i'll give it though, BUT i have come up with a new name for possession gestalts, because that's so cumbersome, now they're Nephilim level gestalts, aww yeah, sounds cooler, might also be indicative that magic communities could know something about possession after all???? maybe???? who knowsssss, alright, cool