Comparing Research about the Beauty in Form between Fractal and Traditional Textile Patterns

摘要

Printing patterns plays an important role in textile industry. With the development of digital ink jet printing, patterns is bringing new requirements for fashion designers in exploring various patterns and shortening the period of development. Patterns using fractal methods have unique features of fashion, which meets the diversified and individualized requirements of digital ink jet printing. In this paper, the features of fractal and traditional textile patterns were studied, for the view of art designers. The beauty in form about the two kinds of patterns was compared, in terms of symmetry and balance, gradation and specificity, simplicity and complexity. Although fractal patterns are quite special in visual aesthetics, the traditional patterns could not be replaced by the fractal ones. In order to enrich the textile market, fractal patterns could be employed as a fresh idea in the textile design.