Simviation Forum - Mr G's fractal thread (24/12

Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:03pm

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Nickname courtesy of my parents.

Like Krigl and a few others, I've been messing around with fractals using Apophysis.

I am confused by it, I have no idea how to work it... I just know that clicking things gets results.

Latest and greatest:

I call it the cave. Haha. I did one sort of red/white/pink gradient, then a more blue one. I then use PDN to make the blue one fade out over the top of the other.

I call it the Blackhole Fractal. I edited it in PDN - Just the curves and contrast

That is an edit, the original can be found Here

One which is currently in currently in the works (this is a quick test render, with edited after effect):

I put them all through Paint.net to get a slightly different effect. I will wait until I learn how to make complex things before I post anything else. Aha.

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Reply #1 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:21pm

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#2 kinda looks like the Earth's gravitational field Cheesy

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Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:23pm

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lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:21pm:

#2 kinda looks like the Earth's gravitational field Cheesy

Now personally I thought it looked like a twin exhaust of a fighter jet.

Blasted fractals. Make no sense and are completely uninterpretable. Angry

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Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:34pm

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Cool! The second one is very loopy...

This is a nice list of resources and also some custom flames and gradients. You might want to get the latest beta from sourceforge because the addons don't work with the vanilla version, apparently. The beta version does crash sometimes unfortunately, but the results are worth it I think.

If you're bored of an evening - and you'll have to be - you can check out my screenshot gallery: Kriglsflightsimscreens...HERE

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Reply #4 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 5:57pm

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Yeh I got it just then. Google'd and found a load of flame packs etc.

Still confused with how it works, lol.

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Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 6:08pm

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I know alot about Ps except for renders Sad

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Reply #6 - Dec 21^st, 2008 at 6:09pm

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Dr.bob7 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2008 at 6:08pm:

I know alot about Ps except for renders Sad

I haven't touched Photoshop in, yeah, a year.

Apophysis FTW, aha.

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Reply #7 - Dec 22^nd, 2008 at 1:37am

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The first one looks like time-lapse photography of a lighning bug on acid. Wink

or is that just a lightning bug and I'm on acid. Undecided

The mind is like a parachute...it only works when it's open.

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Reply #8 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 8:02pm

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There we go. I think that's enough for a while. I'm sure all this messing with colours and patterns can't be safe haha.

Most are just messing around. The occasional tutorial. Previews are done at default resolution (around 500 wide) at 1000 quality. Final versions are done at 1024 and 10,000 quality. Usually taking up a good hour to finish. 3 oversamples.

When I do some photography editing next year I am planning on encorporating my new found cyber-love into that aswell. Umm.. Who said days gone by? My camera is 10.1 megapixel, so image resolutions of 3888 x 2592. Which is what I will be producing fractals at aswell. Probably 5 oversamples and easily 20,000-30,000 quality wise.

Suppose it's a safer hobby than playing with pepperspray Grin

Next images along the lines of this will be my photo editing probably. Expect something that looks quite alright Wink

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Reply #9 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:07pm

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The new one is very moody, I like it! What is PDN?

If you're bored of an evening - and you'll have to be - you can check out my screenshot gallery: Kriglsflightsimscreens...HERE

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Reply #10 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:08pm

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krigl wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:07pm:

The new one is very moody, I like it! What is PDN?

Paint.net

Free equivelent to photoshop etc.

And thanks. Yeh I was glad how that one came out... Made a change from the stringy swirls of the others.

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Reply #11 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:10pm

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Ah, thanks!

If you're bored of an evening - and you'll have to be - you can check out my screenshot gallery: Kriglsflightsimscreens...HERE

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