Author Topic: Fractal Arts (Read 12496 times)

kewlhotrod · « **on:** June 14, 2009, 12:01:45 PM »

Alright. I'm not sure if any of you know what a fractal is, but that is the artist I am. A fractal artist. After seeing some works I'm sure many of you will recognize them. Here are a few samples of my work:

MY GALLERY

SLEEPING SORROW:

SPARKLING POLTERGEIST:

SUCCUBUS IN RAPTURE:

THE SURROUNDING CIRCLE:

Intertwined:

OMINOUS WALKWAY:

And here's a few videos of some animations that I have made using fractals. These animations generally take about a week to complete. A normal animation takes about 500 images, and to render one image takes about two hours.

Binary Series

Golden Twine Animation 2

Deep Spiral

Sparkling Poltergeist

Spiral Out Animation2

I've got plenty more to show if anyone's curious. Click the images for an enlargement.

treemty · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2009, 12:09:06 PM »

wow, simply amazing, keep upp the great work

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2009, 12:14:51 PM »

Heh, thank you. These things take a while to complete. :P

~:Dhruv:~ · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2009, 12:22:51 PM »

WoW ! That was awesome, u have skills.... keep it up

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2009, 12:26:30 PM »

Heh, thanks man.

DarkHawken · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2009, 01:35:49 AM »

WOW, they look amazing, I cant see the pictures but the videos look great.
Fractal art looks quite interesting, might have to give it a go
Reminds me of kaleidoscopes

What program do you use to make them?

W-Gaming5 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2009, 01:38:31 AM »

GhoSt · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2009, 02:18:50 AM »

wow nice work, are you a good all rounder artist, you should put your name down for the try out's for the art team.

robin1989 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2009, 03:12:29 AM »

hey is it just me who cannot see theimages - the videos are amazing and i agree with ghost

DarkHawken · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2009, 04:09:23 AM »

Quote from: Mactastic Mendez on June 15, 2009, 03:12:29 AM

hey is it just me who cannot see theimages - the videos are amazing and i agree with ghost

I cant either

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:01:38 AM »

Quote from: DarkHawken on June 15, 2009, 01:35:49 AM

WOW, they look amazing, I cant see the pictures but the videos look great.
Fractal art looks quite interesting, might have to give it a go
Reminds me of kaleidoscopes

What program do you use to make them?

I use a program called Apophysis.

Quote from: W-Gaming5 on June 15, 2009, 01:38:31 AM

WOW!!
did you do the animations with adobe after effects?

No sir. :/

For the animations I use an external rendering program called "Flam3".

Quote from: GhoSt_Death on June 15, 2009, 02:18:50 AM

Well, I can't draw or create anything in that effect, if that's what you mean. However I AM exceptionally good at Photoshop. I'm more of an abstract artist, however, and it seems to try out for the art team you need to make a sig of some sort, lol. In those cases I'm not so hot.

Also, images are repaired. Sorry about that. Don't know why they stopped working. :/
wow nice work, are you a good all rounder artist, you should put your name down for the try out's for the art team.

DarkHawken · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:34:18 AM »

BLOODY HELL!

Is it me or is that program extremly hard to make those patterns your making?
Those pics and videos now look a lot better now that I know how hard it is to make those.
(Do you just mess around with that editor with the triangles in?)
I especially like:
OMINOUS WALKWAY
THE SURROUNDING CIRCLE

How did u export them as images? and how do you get them so clear mine look like this:
and yes thats the best I managed!

The art competitions normally have lots of different tasks, like sigs, wallpapers, render of products etc.

You could use that style in sigs and wallpapers so I would enter if I were you, got nothing to loose

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #12 on:** June 15, 2009, 09:47:29 AM »

Hehe, it takes a lot of experimentation. Took me weeks to make my first, non-messy pattern... Which sucked, lol.

I've just been doing this for a while, so I kind of know what I'm doing. :P

First off, update your Apophysis. 2.02 is from like... 1996. xD

http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis/

I'd just pick the normal one, don't worry about 3D'ing anything. Lol. You can have more than one APO (Apophysis) program, though.

And to export it, click the little gear on your menu bar at the top left.

Input the size, quality, and area to save. (I render at 1280x1024 and at 5000 quality, although that is extreme. You only need to render at about 1000)

Leave the buffer depth alone, and only limit memory usage if you have a slow machine. If you do that it will take longer for your picture to finish rendering, but won't task so much on your PC.

And once some more details are released I guess I can give it a shot. However, I won't be that good at it. Lol.

robin1989 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2009, 10:00:47 AM »

i can see the pictures now and they look amazing - i hope you dont mind but i have saved them to use as desktop images

DarkHawken · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2009, 10:08:02 AM »

ah ok, im updating now to 208beta
Think thats the latest.
Thanks for your help, and yeah like mendez said, i hope you dont mind me using one as a wallpaper. Ive chosen the ominous walkway

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #15 on:** June 15, 2009, 10:09:02 AM »

Of course not. Those are only some of my works, I've got about 130 others, heh.

Glad you like them enough to use as a desktop, though.

I've found that a good fractal I've made for a dark-themed OS is this one.

Also, for anyone here, if you want to see an image in a larger resolution, that is the magic of fractals. I can make any of these images ANY SIZE, without loss of quality.

So if you need one resized to something specific for your desktop, let me know. But please, only if it needs to be enlarged. It takes about 3 hours for an image to render, so if I get requested for exact fits all the time it'll take forever. >.<

GhoSt · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2009, 11:57:03 AM »

dude you should fully try out, a sig wont take much work, you can even use a fractal in it. Mind if I modify your 4rd fractal down into a wallpaper for myself?

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2009, 12:03:30 PM »

Alright, I'll give it a shot. Just keep me updated and such.

Also, feel free to. All of my fractals are free to use for your own will in personal use.

W-Gaming5 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2009, 04:03:50 PM »

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #19 on:** June 15, 2009, 04:07:31 PM »

Heh, thank you.

And you absolutely may.

W-Gaming5 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2009, 04:11:18 PM »

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2009, 04:12:28 PM »

Of course.

Bhawan · « **Reply #22 on:** June 18, 2009, 04:57:19 PM »

holy crap.... you got skills...

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:24:09 PM »

Lol, thank you.

They're easily attainable skills if you have time to devote and a keen eye for design and mathematics.

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #24 on:** June 19, 2009, 10:17:28 AM »

Wow im amazed by your work thats some art work you got there well done.

injungleist · « **Reply #25 on:** June 19, 2009, 11:06:07 AM »

wow man 500 pics at 2 hours a piece that's like 1000 hours per video. you must have some free time, but keep up the work it looks awesome.

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #26 on:** June 19, 2009, 12:37:36 PM »

Yeah, videos take FOREVER.

Hence why I love my new computer. It definitely helps split the time. :P

In any case, thank you.

Just for kicks, here's a new one.

DEEP THREADS

robin1989 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 19, 2009, 03:44:41 PM »

i like that one it looks like people have been throwing hundreds of reals of twine around a room

kewlhotrod · « **Reply #28 on:** June 19, 2009, 04:59:42 PM »

That'd be some messy room.

Also, I decided that since I can, I might as well post a new image every time I post on this thread. So, basically, if you want to see more keep replying here, and I'll end up responding back. xD

INTERNAL DISTURBANCE

injungleist · « **Reply #29 on:** June 19, 2009, 08:57:56 PM »

now thats just bad

deep threads is cool as

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