Fractals: Basically it a mathematical formula itereated over and over and graphed with a color map (iteration is when you take the result of a calculation, and run the calculation again on the result, and again on that result and so on).

They make very pretty images.



(these are all free);

Chaoscope, http://www.chaoscope.org

Chaos Pro; http://www.chaospro.de Outstanding because it can export ".obj" models of 3D Fractals

Mutatorkammer; http://www.fractalmovies.com

There are many others.

Fractal Explorer, UltraFractal (pay for full version), Tierzon, Mystic Fractal, and more.


If you want to see fractal art,:

http://www.fractalforums.com

not free: The Groboto website - http://www.groboto.com

There also are Xenodream that can make the most awesome 3d fractals and you can export the fractals as a 3d object and use them in any 3D program . http://www.xenodream.com

Apophysis. http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/

Mac users might want to take a look at GNU XaoS
http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php?id=main

Here is the FractalWorks Download page:

http://web.mac.com/dchampney/Site/FractalWorks.html


Fractal Therapeutic Project
http://www.wack.ch/fame/sw/sw_21.html#1

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I thought i would share these with peeps, so newbies and masters alike can see how some of the recent posts were made and created.

There are lots i havent posted, and a few are variations on the same theme, but most are singular creations.

Feel free to tweak these to your hearts content, and let me know if this was any use for ya

I guess this is more of a "hands-on" tutorial than a real tut, but it will give an insight to stuff if your new to Apophysis.

For best results, Gamma is best set to between 1.8 and 2.5, and Density between 2000 and 3000.
For a quick decent render, set Density to 500.

Also, make sure your preview window is set to High Quality. You can change this by right clicking the window in the Adjustment window.

As always, it is better to copy the UPR into Ultra Fracatal, and render the image there. This way, you can have multiple images at once. A great deal quicker too

Just unzip the file, and place it in your main Apophysis Beta folder, then just open it up.

Hope you find this useful/interesting/enlightening/mind-blo wing

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