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Published: 2014-03-03 00:39:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 4283; Favourites: 188; Downloads: 0
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Ice, darkness, and a fiery ruby red. The two former will be here soon!
The blur on this was nightmarish to work with, and was necessary for some of the sparkly effects. I ended up rendering it twice as large and downsizing it for added sharpness, though I'm not sure how much it helped over just using a larger supersample...
Anyways, technical rant aside, I hope you all enjoy it, as I personally really like how it turned out despite the blurmageddon...
Apo + Chaotica
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Comments: 23
Just discovered that masterpiece. How you managed to achieve this is beyond my understanding
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As you've mentioned that you have used Chaotica in some of your own artwork, I'll share a few tips that I used in the creation of this.
1) Chaotica has a wonderful blur called "gaussian." This blur is wonderful for depth or smoothness, and I use this a lot in this particular fractal. It isn't built into Apophysis - it must be added in Chaotica as a post transform. Typically, small values of this (0.001 - 0.05) are sufficient to create some type of depth blur, and I sometimes use even smaller values than that! However, this fractal does the opposite and uses larger values - 0.1 or more, which blurs large portions of the transform's shape into something smooth. The remaining transformations provide the structure around it. You may need to modify the fractal in Chaotica itself to tighten the structure around the blur, or add additional structure to the fractal through more transforms.
2) Equally important to the structure is the color - and how you use it. The gradient you end up using from ChaosHelper should seem natural when transitioning between colors. Once the colors "feel" natural, then it's off to seeing how they actually work in Chaotica. Chaotica's "Shaders" tab is both mmastriani (the creator of ChaosHelper) and my weapon of choice in seeing how the color can interact with a fractal. You can manually change the color settings in Chaotica - which lets you focus on specific sections of the fractal that could use slight adjustment - but shaders will help you explore all the potential the gradient offers much more quickly than doing it manually.
3) Effect work is surprisingly simple. Transforms that either have no variations in them, or very small values of a variation, are good at creating dots, specks, and noise. Just make sure they have a low enough weight so they don't attract more attention than the fractal itself, unless you're looking to do that!
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My current knowledge/usage of chaotica is very limited. It feels like a powerful tool that can easily get out of hands.
I'll definitely try your tips & see how it goes.
Thanks a lot!
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Yes, you can use chaoshelper easily, on Mac, Windows and Linux.
ChaosHelper 1.1.0 Has ArrivedChaosHelper 1.1.0 is now available for download
ChaosHelper is a free app that helps you working with Chaotica (http://chaoticafractals.com), changing a gradient (creating or selecting one by those great artists) of a selected fractal. Also, it can add or remove a final transform.
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1.1.0
- copies automatically to clipboard, grayscale
- exports, saves and deletes gradient, and reads gradient from chaos files
- gradient from image
- gradient editor
Download Version 1.1.0
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Thanks a million:
BoxTail
FarDareisMai
FractalDesire
lyc
Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELFF3y…
Enjoy!
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Fractal software is not very intuitive, and it is daunting when you're starting out. I think that's one of the things that scares most people away from this medium, which is unfortunate as fractals have so much potential. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know!
If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to know your thoughts on what parts of working with fractals would be helpful to learn. I have been wanting to create a tutorial series that helps introduce people to the medium, continuing from the set I wrote years ago. Understanding the major points of confusion, as well as what the best and most useful resources you've found to be, would be very helpful in understanding what possible gaps I would need to cover more effectively to keep people engaged at the beginning of the process.
Thanks!
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So first thing : the existing tutorials here on da are extremely helpful. Many topics are covered, and it's generally all high quality stuff.
It's extremely exciting to be able to start right away & get an incredible output in just a few minutes. What I haven't found is more like a general intro to fractal art.
It's just a bit frustrating to not fully understand what I just created.
- how do transforms work? No need for complicated maths, just a general approach that would people (incl. me) wrap their mind around the concept.
- what are the main fractal types? the most common variations/techniques? the terms & definitions that are used by all fractal artists?
- what are the most common tools? their pros/cons?
Basically, some easy-to-read theory.
As for keeping people engaged, there's nothing like a community for that. People who fave your art, give you feedback, tell you they loved and what tips you could use, etc.
Basically what you just did
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This certainly seems doable! When I asked a few users who felt fractal "community week" articles too technical about what types of information would be useful, I kinda got blown off by them because they didn't provide anything constructive as a response. I appreciate that you wrote up such a detailed analysis; it clearly mentions skills and knowledge that would be useful, and it doesn't seem that hard to cover.
I'll take a crack at working on something to address what you've mentioned today and over the weekend; I'd be more than happy to share it with you for feedback, as I want to make sure it's doing what it should!
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Awesome! can't wait wait to read it!
I can only speak for myself, but as a beginner, that really is what I want to learn
Thanks so much!
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I like this a lot, to me it seems like it's a road going up, sort of away from the darkness. The way I interpret it is that this is the road that leads up and away from the depression. At the same time as you don't exactly know where you are going, and the road might be tough..
Again, great piece with a wonderful blur c;
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In this case, the ruby colors in the image are overwhelmed and being eaten away by the darker colors surrounding it, and the sadness of a a fiery gem such as this being consumed by ice and darkness was what I was intending to represent. Although ruby happens to be the birthstone for July, which is where my birthday resides, depression is not part of who I am mentally or physically; the title was just intended to more poignantly charge the scene with the emotion I associated with the colors at the time ;o
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It feels like a winter's night. The blur is just right for the feeling this portrays. A passion of hate but excitement towards the cold winter to come. For me, the winter is here, and it's cold. This is portraying the feelings I have now.
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This was made on uhhh Sunday, which was before Titan hit us over here in NoVA. It was 58 degrees that afternoon, and in under 24 hours the temperature then sank to 1. Your analysis of this is spot on based on what I was trying to convey. I actually was looking forward to the storm despite wanting it to just be spring already -- I had a midterm on Monday that I really wanted to study a bit more for, and now I have two extra weeks to do so
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Thank you very much ^)^
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