*I find fizz in my soda drink
I find fizz on wave’s folding brink
I find fizz in my kitchen sink
I find fizz everywhere I think

And now I read there’s fizz between
The subatomic parts unseen
There’s even fizz in my cuisine
Everywhere this fizz has been

I’m sure that we could all attest
If fizz were stock you could invest
World markets would not be depressed
And even Pope would see fizz blessed

The best fizz is that one you drop
In water glass with a ‘plop-plop’
That helps your damned old heartburn stop
From greasy spoon where you ate slop*

This fractal artwork was inspired after reading an article on ‘quantum foam’ in a quantum physics paper. ‘Fizz’ is defined as ‘to become bubbly or frothy or foaming’ or ‘to have effervescence or sparkle’. It seems we are surrounded by fizz at all levels, from subatomic physics to interstellar space. That being the case, I felt it was worthy of an artwork and poem.

The original is 3600 × 3000 pixels at 300 pixels per inch. It was created in Apophysis 3D Hack. The gradient was created in ApoMap, a gradient editor commonly used with Apophysis. The fractal was created as a transparency and then used as a layer in Photoshop post-processing. The background gradient was created in Photoshop. The post processing was all done in Photoshop as well. Because the original is so large and difficult to see over the internet, I have included a couple of detail cutaways below.