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Published: 2005-05-06 20:15:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1317; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 245
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One of the trickiest images I've worked on yet. The image was rendered this way, so getting the colors down was not easy. A color that looked good on one side didn't always match the other, so it was a lot of experiments getting a happy medium for both sides.Been a long while since I've posted a horizontal fractal, but the shape of the image was also tricky. I was originally working on a vertical that had four full squares and two partials on both top and bottom. Zooming in and out was limited because the area that comprised the squares was a circle, so the edges of the corners were rounded out making zoom outs impossible. I also experimented with a square image but it didn't look quite right so I used the stretch tools in UF to trick out the spirals in order to get the squares aligned properly for a print ratio.
So anyway, I wasn't planning on having this done, but after a major case of insomnia, I stayed up most of the night and kept at it. Couldn't sleep, so might as well make use of the time. Went deeper into the coloring algoryths with this also. The good thing about the color was spotting a bad algorythm was real easy, so it didn't take long to week through them.
Created with Ultra Fractal.
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Comments: 115
Cool. UF is definately worth the time.
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Awwh insomnia, can't live with it can't live without it, I would even venture to say that the work looks like your eyes after the sleeples night, haha. Nice work on the color and crazyness of the detail.
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yeah, been up on those red eyes more than a few times myself
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OMG, those burning colors and the shapes make my eyes jump 
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Gotta love those fire colors.
I like those same spots.
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Yeah, I very like fire colors 
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Love it.
But I have one small question: did you try replacing the inner colors with the outer colors? If you did, did it not look good? I thought it might be cool if you flipped the colors like that.
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It was all one image. This will help explain it better: [link] . Tricky getting colors that matched both sides at the same time.
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One of the many reason i like this is because of the mirrored effect to them. In my own train of thought i would say that each side represents two different faces of a jester. See i myself think of a jester bearing two mask. The entertainer full of life, laughter and smiles, but also the mask behind the scenes filled with signs of the opposite; tears, depression and pain.
Amazing showcase of talent getting them to mirror inside ultrafractal
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I think we both share that aspect. For me, it's not that I try to be something I'm not, just that there is more to me than anyone has ever known. Few people have taken the time to really get to know what makes me.
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Psychology talks about all the multiple masks we wear as a person, good or bad. There are so many parts too an individual. Some are clear and out in the open and some secret and are hardly ever revealed. I think it' s hard on both sides of the ball , it's hard to be open about yourself because you never know how the person on the other will react and process the information, but on the other hand as well, it is equally as hard to ask these kind of questions because your really walking into unknown territory and don't know if your going to sink or swim.
There is a balance of allowing people to know who you are and others allowing themselves too put forth the inquery.
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Definatley a jester type feel to it, very cool stuff man.
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Thanks. One of my most easiest to name fractals.
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it definitely requires a full view to fully appreciate it.
indeed it must have been a hard piece to model.
really good though.
definitely worth the work.
i love the little "wiggle" that goes through the "leaves". it creates a very nice effect :-D
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Thanks. I wanted a black and white image so bad to match the more traditional jester, but the colors kept graying out on me, so I went with something more colorful. My favorite part is those wiggles also.
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I think you did. I upgraded my anti-virus and it's really giving me a hard time getting prints accepted. Keeps corrupting the files via ftp, so it took me a bit longer to get it accepted. Wish they'd change having them show up in the inbox when a print is accepted.
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It's amazing to think you made this as a single image! It looks great, and the earthy colors you used here work really well. Since everyone seems to be choosing sides 
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I think I like aspects of both. I agree about the white, but if you look, the right side spiral is inlaid in the left one, and vice versa. I've never seen a formula react that way, like a negative to the opposite section.
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I noticed the inversion, too, but for some reason I like the white better on the outside. But altogether it's very interesting, especially now you've showed where this piece came from as well.
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I think you will come up with a very awesome work by using this technique ...I will be watching you 
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I really don't know what to write in the description most of the time, but the guys in *Ultra-Fractal are always wanting to know how I do things, so I figured I'd at least explain a little without giving away the prints secrets. People often ask me how many hours in an image also, which I usually don't keep track of. I probably should because I've been working on images over many days instead of doing it all in one sitting like I used to.
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yea I think its really good when there're something worth writing and it can be an extra information on top of your work
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Sup man This one has one of the most mezmorizing patterns I have seen in your works and I love the way you did teh opposites great work man
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Thanks much. Everything I posted since Technocracy and on has been formulas right out of the compatability formula. I think this was a hyperbolic mandelbrot. Each image I choose the next formula down the list to see what it can do. Great way of learning and experimenting.
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definately I do the same thing I just like to do teh same with each formula and see what each filter or a variation will do and then mix them all up sometimes it comes out ok and sometimes I scream and run away for a long time hopefully sometimes in the future I will be in your league
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I like the bright colors, and I love all the detail put into this. It's like every time you look at it, you see something you didn't notice before.
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Thank you very much. The traditional approach with Ultra Fractal is to add huge amounts of layers with little on each one, but I normally do the exact opposite. The result is like you said, you notice more each time.
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still have "insomnia"
lovely fractal, that remind me some toy from my childhood
*can you add a mug with your prints
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Mugs are really tricky because they are very long and not very tall. I'll see what the stretch tools in UF can do. It took me a bit of a struggle getting this approved, so it might be a bit before I try the mug.
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maybe if you put two like Shaved Amber
if you don't make it, I understand, DA can make lot of time to approved work
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I actually got it to fit, but I'll send it in later today or tomorrow. Looks just like the print but with a smaller frame.
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It really does look like a lot of work, hoo boy! It reminds me of autumn when the leaves get different colours and fall down. I actually like the right one better than the left one because of the deep red, but it seems more people are into the left one. 
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I'm an autumn person, so that had a bit to do with the colors. I'm thinking of showing the zoomed out image to give people an idea of how really screwy the image was. Exact opposites for each square and the entire square sections were embedded in a circle, which added to the zoom frustration.
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I saw the zoomed out version. Your work really is impressive!
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Just fantastic! I read through your description and am really amazed you got those incredible colors to render in one image. Absolutely brilliant. I think what really strikes me are the soft gradients in the triangle segments (that organic-lookind squiggle is just too cool!) and the sharp lines between the colors around them. Very effective. I think the spiral on the right is my favorite. Love the red background with the black and white transition.
Oh and you have a yin-yang thing going on here, which I love. The right spiral contains the color scheme of the left spiral down in the corner and vice versa...
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