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Squares, or rectangles. You decide.Who said rotations have to be round?
Apophysis, no postwork.
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Thanks. This didn't look nearly as good with a black background, so giving it that paper feel worked.
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Nice render, and nice to see some different styles from Apophysis......Sweet image
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Thank you. I'm always experimenting with the program. I don't think I've made a single image in months that didn't involve trying some new and crazy way of getting a different type of image. Apophysis hasn't let me down yet.
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whoah! 
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Yep. Nothing but triangle manipulations. I didn't even mess with the color like I normally do in Apo.
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Woah, cool! Looks like crumpled pieces of sheer fabric arranged perfectly.... awesome!!!
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Thanks. Wonder if I can make an italian table cloth if I changed it to red?
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Thank you. I'm still debating making another color for the minimalist wallpaper gallery.
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This is just...
I'll have to come back once I've had time think about it- but VERY freaking cool!
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OOH!! u gav a GREAT deal of Patience in u!! very stoic of u 
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Echo...echo... That is what this piece reminds me of. Very minimalistic in a good way. I like how this fractal has that icey kind of wintery feel to it.
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I debated making a minimalist wallpaper out of this when I was making it. Also thought that a white background looked much better than a black one, so winter is good.
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Pretty cool... Looks like wrinkled paper.
I've always think that white and blue is a great combination.
*is a blue lover*
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Thanks. I love blue also, so sometimes I can't help myself. Wanted a white background, and actually did a lot of different colors for the image itself and blue was the one that looked the best.
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Man, you've done it again. I have no idea how you get such interesting work out of Apophysis. Great work!
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Thanks. Just poking at those triangles. Nothing else going on with this one except it was set on rotation.
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I've played with the triangles, but I still don't understand how their size and placement affects the image. I find that one of the most frustrating things about Apophysis - there seems to be little rhyme nor reason to why things turn out the way things do.
At least with POVRay, it's much easier to tweak little bits of the image while leaving the rest of it intact. That might be one reason why I've started preferring POVRay over Apophysis.
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It's best to set your parameters to 3 triangles max. Less is usually more. Triangle 1 and 2 are the base triangles. They make up the bulk of the image. Triangle 3 is usually the mirror triangle. Moving it around makes multiple images that fade away into the background.
Just like triangles, less variations are usually better. Setting them to 2 or 3 gives you better blends, as each triangle is weighted for the variations in random amounts. Too many variations, too mixed of the blending. All I do is start with triangle 1 and move it around seeing how it affects the image. I move on to 2 and 3, narrowing them all down to the best spot to give the best image.
There's other tricks like rotating or resizing triangles that I also do if I think the overall image needs that little nudge.
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I hear what you're saying, but there still doesn't seem to be any reason why certain placements do things (that I can grok). Maybe you've got a better feel for it than I do.
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A lot of what I know is all based on theories from what I've noticed (there is no instruction manual to the thing). What I've noticed is each triangle is weighted to the variations (look under the variations tab in the editor to find out how and how much). The base triangle, that one that can't be moved but is a launching pad for all added triangles, affects how the image changes as the other triangles move closer or further away from it, as if each triangles weigthing is coming into play. Each file has a sweet spot, that when a triangle is moved over it, the image opens up and the variations meld together better.
Apophysis takes a lot of patience to get all the patterns and nuances down. I have hundreds of hours in it, so I've seen a lot and can predict how images will change fairly well. I can go through the gallery and spot who works with it on deep levels, and who just brush the surface without trying, just by looking at what type of images have been made. If you want to get back into it, I can give you help, but from what I've seen of your POVray images, that looks like a great way to go also. It's all an individual thing.
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I know what you mean about the "sweet spot"; I've stumbled across that in my experiments as well.
I also know what you mean about being able to spot who's playing with it seriously. I can already do that somewhat myself. It doesn't take a whole lot of experience to tell the difference
I might take you up on your offer someday. Have to wait and see.
I'm starting to get confident with POVRay now, as I'm already doing things with it that I've never been able to do before. But I need to spend a whole lot more time experiment with the myriad of options so that I can really start doing some decent stuff with it. At the moment, what I'm doing is ridiculously simple when you look at what other people can get out of it.
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I am going with squares.
Totally cool Jeff... you always find such interesting flames!
Great work!!!
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Squares it is! Yeah, I have a long way to go before I've expanded the uniqueness to flames.
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I think you see your road as long.. but from here... you're already there.
You bring a new creativity to Apo images.... very refreshing Jeff!
Keep up the awesome work!
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very "modern art"! an unique use of the program!
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I love modern art. Thanks!
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Thanks. Rotationals are some of my favorites to work with, and I'm never satisfied of making images that aren't unique or exciting, so this was one of those that I had fun on pushing the boundaries.
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very good. so good ill just let the 
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Thanks, but I think I really set the apophysis users on their head with this one. You don't get square images from rotationals without a lot of work.
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Looks like a sketch. This is quite different than what I'm used to seeing, but I do like it. I'm not sure however on whether squares or rectangles...can I choose both? ^_^
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Both it is! I was going for squares, but after I rendered it, I noticed I had those bonus rectangles in there. I love taking fractals in new directions and doing things nobody has done before, so this one being different was very much deliberate.
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that is so beautiful !! I love the colors cause it white and blue and it looks very calming and modern very artistic and stunning!!!
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Thank you. I love white backgrounds, but usually get a lot of bad feedback about them being too bright. This one worked really well because the image covered it well. I love modern art also.
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awesome! looks like special paper where they put little wires in for a hmm special structure
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Thank you. That's a really cool and unique look at this. Appreciate the fresh perspective on it.
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