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Published: 2009-01-23 18:06:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1804; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 0
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Entry for the Apophysis WTC, theme "Beauty": [link]Please fullview to capture the vibrance of the colour palette.
For those who wonder: yes, this is a true rotational.
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Congratulations on your third in this week's WTC! 
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i love the coloring of this, has a nice brightness to it!
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Gorgeous. Just absolutely gorgeous. I applaud you, and wish you luck in the contest.
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Pure beauty is in chaos.
Good luck in the contest. Great work
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Well, I don't know what a rotational is, as I'm an Apo newbie, but this is amazingly beautiful!
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This truly is beautiful.
I'm a huge fan of rotationals, and I, in fact, learned the method of their creation through your tutorial over a year ago. This specific rotational, though, looks as if it has four separate centers, not one, which is something I hadn't really thought about much before now, and I think I may need to experiment on my own to see how one achieves such a result. It's quite effective.
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I'm glad you noticed that this is more than just a random rotational. Rotationals are quite simple in their structure, but it takes hours and hours of tweaking to get everything right. For this piece in particular it took litterally several days to achieve this composition.
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Well it may take me a few days just to figure out how you achieved that. My initial thought didn't work, so I'll need to continue experimenting. I'm assuming, though, that you did somehow change something specifically to make four distinct centers, yes? You don't have to reveal exactly how you did it, I'm just curious. After all, I don't want to just copy you, or anything. Where would be the fun or artistry in that?
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Try playing with the curl variation on the final transform.
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nice to know, thank you 
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Like a mass of plasma I could hold in my hand. 
In any case, I like it.
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thanks for commenting. the composition, in my opinion, needs to be as spontaneaous as possible to keep that glowing energy sparkling. i feel that structure (or symmetry) would kill it.
glad you like the colours.
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Beautiful flame and a fantastic composition, but with one drawback for me at least, the quality of the image itself. You've got a lot of blurry/smudgy/blotchy spots that are probably a result of the .jpg compression. Not sure what post program you use, but I would definitely try to keep it .png throughout, even if the file size is bigger.
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I followed your advice, which proved to be very useful. I re-rendered the image at 25k, filter radius 1.2 and 5 oversample. Postwork was done in GIMP, but I kept the .png. I agree the image looks much softer this way, so thanks for the advice. I hope you too like it better now.
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Your render settings are incredibly overkill, lol. Just keep it as a .png or a 100% quality .jpg that has been saved only once, since jpg's lose quality every time you re-save it.
It looks much, much better though. Nice to see it being shown off with the incredible clarity it exhibits.
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