you guys ever dabbeled in fractal art (i think thats what its called)? www.apophysis.org this is a piece of freeware in which you can create really intricate abstract fractal art easily. the only downside is as far as im concerned there is less help on the web about how to use it. still download it and post some results! i think it rocks. there are great tools for when your starting out- it gives you a load of random 'flames' i think they're called then a mutation tool which shows 9 different versions of your current piece with the setting slightly tweaked. theres even a renderer built in!

heres something i just brewed up:


post some results of yours so we can compete for the best oh and no post editing

cool, at the very least i'll be able to create some neat background images. I'll give it a go. It'll be awesome to add some of this into photoshop works, too.

I used an image made with Apophysis here.


Take a look at these too:
www.fractalus.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

thats sweet eepi, great work

heres another- i call this "lightning rod"

thats interesting......
would make some nice backgroungs

here are a couple I did. how do you guys get the more thread-like look? Mine are all grainy.



Tropical Bird Feathers?


This blue one reminds me of spider webs

after your in the internal render page, on the right theres a drop down box saying image quality. i usually set mine to about 1000 which is enough to look good and doesnt take too long to render.

oh btw guys, it talks about the 'beta' version on the website and theres a link. i really recommend getting it theres a lot of cool bonus stuff on it and a more friendly interface

The one you brewed up is the balls!!!

this stuff is addictive and thanks mikey

bump ( ( ) ( ) ) etc.

I have no idea how I did it but here it is:

its all good tofu, your guess is as good as mine . most of the work you do on a piece is adjusting it not creating it

yeah, I wish it would let you create your own triangle things in the adjuster menu, and start from scratch; this just feels like i'm modifying a pre-existing work, not creating my own.

well i guess you can remove and add triangles etc. but you'd need to adjust all the properties continously untill it took shape so its possible it just involves unnessassarly hard numbers

I just noticed something in my image that reminded me of my recent canoe trip. While on the trip I got to see a bald eagle snatch a fish out of the river. My image looks like a bird above ripples. Coincidence or fate?

Here's the embiggened version. I made the canvas blue this time to see if it made it look more like water. Anyone else see the bird coming right at them?