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Published: 2007-09-15 16:34:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1265; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 51
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Description inspiration: Bonnie Tyler "Total eclipse of the heart"
CabinTom's halo script used

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Comments: 20

CelticIrishgirl [2012-08-13 20:00:47 +0000 UTC]

I love that song! Also I need a hero! ^^

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CrazyKefka [2008-09-04 13:06:42 +0000 UTC]

Very trippy, but a nice blend of colors. Very well done. Gold star for you!

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scarabbeo In reply to CrazyKefka [2008-09-07 21:25:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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tin-can-man [2007-09-25 15:57:27 +0000 UTC]

Very nice colours and shaping
great fractul

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scarabbeo In reply to tin-can-man [2007-09-25 20:05:25 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much

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IDeviant [2007-09-24 14:57:44 +0000 UTC]

Could use some anti-aliasing to remove the 'jaggies' and excess sharpness, but I love the overall design

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scarabbeo In reply to IDeviant [2007-09-25 20:05:09 +0000 UTC]

many thanks
You're completely right about this sharpness. Could you advise me any program to fix it? I tried in PSP, but the result isn't really impressive...

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IDeviant In reply to scarabbeo [2007-09-26 06:36:57 +0000 UTC]

You could use higher oversample or simply render larger and perform a size reduction - this provides natural anti-aliasing, but both methods require more memory for the render. To squeeze more out of the size reduction, I have documented a method in my flam3 tutorial (see Box 2). As an example, render a 1024 x 768 image at 2048 x 1536 then reduce to the desired size in 3 steps of 79%. However, with 'eclipse', the jagged parts to the left of the image would probably require more severe treatment e.g. render at 3072 x 2304 and reduce in 5 steps of 80%.

For reference, the formula is:

step reduction (as % of original) t*100^(s-1))^(1/s)

where:
t = target reduction (as % of original)
s = # of steps
^ = raised to the power of

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scarabbeo In reply to IDeviant [2007-09-26 09:03:40 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, that makes sense! Many thanks for suggestion!
(This render I made on a, hmm, Not-So-Fast-Wait-For-Me computer which I used during holidays, I'll rerender it soon)

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IDeviant In reply to scarabbeo [2007-09-27 09:19:01 +0000 UTC]

"Not-So-Fast-Wait-For-Me computer" - I used to have one of those till I burned it out

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IDeviant In reply to IDeviant [2007-09-26 06:38:39 +0000 UTC]

That emote should read: equals space open bracket!

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TerraRhapsody [2007-09-22 18:48:22 +0000 UTC]

beautiful job. awesome colours and a lovely pattern. just one thing, it looks a little blurred. did you render this as a .jpg or a .png? i find .pngs give a much smoother finish

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scarabbeo In reply to TerraRhapsody [2007-09-25 20:03:23 +0000 UTC]

it actually was a png
I know I should definately look for some good anti-alias, but I don't know any...

thank you for commenting

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TerraRhapsody In reply to scarabbeo [2007-09-25 20:05:06 +0000 UTC]

yeah- that might do the trick. but hard to find..

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glasshound [2007-09-22 00:11:42 +0000 UTC]

Impressive piece! A lot going on without it feeling "busy".

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scarabbeo In reply to glasshound [2007-09-25 20:00:39 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much

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RV-TIDE [2007-09-21 22:16:50 +0000 UTC]

Looks great. Maybe you could've filled in the "gaps" in the middle of the "circles" but this still looks good. Keep it up.

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scarabbeo In reply to RV-TIDE [2007-09-25 20:00:26 +0000 UTC]

many tahnks
I haven't thought of filling these gaps, one black hole is something canted here

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Obiwan00 [2007-09-16 14:06:11 +0000 UTC]

WOW

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scarabbeo In reply to Obiwan00 [2007-09-16 14:58:09 +0000 UTC]

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