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ChaosFissure — Mysterious Owl Bouquet
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Published: 2015-03-20 00:47:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 5446; Favourites: 214; Downloads: 0
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Don't ask me to explain the title, because I really can't. Well okay, I can. The shapes in the center remind me of a bouquet of some type, and the feathery quality is something I associated with an owl. I swear, I have to keep coming up with weirder and weirder titles!Technically speaking, this started out as a high gamma setting thing but then settled down to brightness and much lower gamma. Value and brightness seriously is something I have a hard time not working with, and I think this looked a lot better than it did when the colors were more flat.
I hope you all find it amusing at least! Because I certainly do XD
Apo + Chaotica
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I meant crystal-like, it's just the texture reminds me of crystals.
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ahhh, okay. I can see that myself, with how some of the sparkles and smoothness in parts works out. Thanks for the clarification
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It's like riding on the highway while on drugs when suddenly you see a huge sandstorm coming your way : "Probably an owl bouquet"
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I...can't say that I'm remotely familiar with that experience...
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It looks like crystals? 
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Thank you very much! Out of curiosity, what makes it magnificent :3
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Sorry for the delay in responding. When I saw the piece, it blew my mind but it’s not so easy to identify why it’s particularly outstanding—while I would say that all of your works are amongst the best fractals I’ve seen in any context, this is definitely my favourite piece in your gallery. I had to spend some time reflecting on this to get at the core of why I especially took to this particular work.
Most fractal artwork is unrepentantly and resolutely perfect, unable to take more than one step away from the underlying algorithm. The majority of fractals feel tightly controlled, shining and splendid, but also unrelentingly clinical.
This work is organic and painterly, tightly constructed with the impression of a cogent whole, and yet with a joyous, wild freedom that suggests a snapshot of an instant in an event that defies framing. The spirals and looping pathways and beautiful collisions track courses through the piece like subatomic particles in the big bang. It looks like a portrait of a creation—not the predictable inevitability of the trefoil knot but the uninhibited explosion of infinite possibility.
The "feathery quality" that suggested owls for you recalls instead for me the deliberate, meaningful splashes of the action painters, and crystallizes the impression of the piece as the afterimage of the artwork. The beauty of the final result coupled with the sensation of the piece straddling a space between the digital and the traditional, the algorithm and the artist, combines really effectively with the visual narrative of something being called into being. I think that’s what makes it magnificent.
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The response itself is more than worth any delay in reply, because holy cow, it's not frequently that I receive comments nearly as detailed as this is. I really do appreciate the time you spent writing this, and it definitely is helpful and a great boost to my spirits to see; comments like these worth the world to me. Thank you very much 
Fractal artwork can be mechanical and hyper-geometric, just so logical (cue Supertramp), but I find that it can be really interesting in moderation! However, I personally found it a chore to create things with ultra-rigid setups...and nearly quit making fractals because I didn't feel like I was able to add enough personality to what I was creating. Fortunately, I decided to try reverse engineering...ironically something structured, and found it incredibly fun to just go through the process of exploring the interactions between the "chaos" and the structure. And I've been doing that ever since!
"...a snapshot of an instant in an event that defies framing"
Perhaps unrelated, but framing fractals probably is my worst nemesis when it comes to making artwork. I love exploring the potential of artwork, seeing how it moves, and seeing what amazing things it can do, but often framing it into a rectangular shape is not easy, and can take days...or even over a week...just to get something I'm satisfied with. And I'm not always satisfied at that point either.
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For me its the incredible detail and what i perceive as vast sweeping shapes that i can almost envisage as a landscape or something. Plus the colours are stunning and theres a really nice mix between very high contrasting sections in the middle and the more gentle colour gradients near the top of the image (especially the yellowy-white areas which i assume inspired the owl/feather idea)
Long short I think its fantastic
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Wow, thank you for the in-depth analysis!
Yes, the colors and motion of the top areas inspired the owl/feather idea. The landscape and sweeping shapes are things I spent a while tweaking and framing until I was happy with how it worked, but I definitely tried to build a scene, as that sweeping "path" going down to the bottom of the image really drives your attention to the center. To be honest, I like the middle left of the image the best, because that's where three major motion points of the image combine (in a way I think looks cool!). I'm glad to hear you enjoy how it turned out ^^
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