What are types of Peruvian Art?

What's the difference between these types of digital art?

• I saw them under digital art on DeviantArt: vexel, pixel, vector, and fractal art. Can someone please give a short explanation as to what these are, and also name some programs that use them to make art. Thanks.

• Answer:

  Here's the Wikipedia page on vexel vs. vector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexel Vector art is usually created in programs like Adobe Illustrator. Vectors are mathematically generated by the program and are RESOLUTION INDEPENDENT. This means you can create them at one size and resize them without loss of image quality. Pixels are the dots on your screen, and are the dots that make up the image in a photograph or any image generated by programs like Adobe Photoshop. Pixels very much depend on resolution: if you try to enlarge a small pixel-based image, all you are doing is making the pixels bigger, so the image loses quality. Fractals are another mathematical based art. There are various programs, both free and for pay that generate fractals. Fractals appear in nature, and were first described by Benoit Mandelbrot. One of the most famous fractal sets is his Mandelbrot Set, and once you see it, you will probably recognize it because it has been used in all sorts of art. Here's the Wikipedia page on fractals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Make sure you scroll through the page because there are some very interesting images, including one of my favorite examples of fractals that occur in nature, the romanesco broccoli.