virus.
not a single animal protein was used.
untitled spiral.
Fractal tree, simple.
Things, that happen at night.
the 5 guys (me and these 4). One of my favourites
rust
mold and foam
another midget
a midget
holes and ghosts
fumes.
random and pretty
one of my favourite new ones
more simmertry
simmetry
Flowers
spiral 002
001
I’ve decided to return here for good. Some changes might happen though but they aren’t exacly definitive. I haven’t also explored what is new in terms of security and plugins to find if there is still interesting to be added to the site, but the basic that will happen from now on is;
1. Images won’t be added to galleries, unless I change my mood. They will posted individually, sometimes with a short description of anything relevant (where I got its name inspiration, how many time it took to render, etc), sometimes just with the name of the image. it’s too boring to add each image again, add a description, etc etc. Let the galleries for my old images. They might also be trimmed down at some point, removing images I don’t care much about them anymore. As I’ve said, there was a period of my “fractal life” where I was somehow compelled so to speak (by stupid group of users) to make a huge number of images in a short period of time (come on, you must be creative they said), and it became a job. with NO rewards. And 99% of the images didn’t satisfy ME. A couple (a dozen or more, actually) images that have been made in a year or so an posted in my FB page (that might or not have appeared here in the past) will be posted here as well. Actually, the FB page is… http://www.facebook/mundofractal/ (I guess), I’m not sure if you will be able to reach it from here.
2. The images won’t have a bookmark anymore most of the time, unless I find the image is a real “masterpiece”. If thieves want to steal it, they will. It’s quite easy and fast to add a watermark, but it’s even faster to cover it. The images won’t be posted anywhere else by me, I am not part of any digital community, forum or FB group. If they are posted without my usual internet nicknames (Mr. Mandelbrot, marcusbacus, fractallland, etc. etc….), they were probably stolen. Fuck that.
3. I have a Facebook page about it now as well just for posting images and a very small comment (a name or of the image and a line or so), but both here and FB have a giant annoyances to make you post stuff when you have made a few more images you like. Here I have a little more room to post and not care much if it is being sen or not (it is…), and the FB annoying “BOOST THIS IMAGE FOR JUST $5 TO GET MORE 10000 VIEWS in every single fucking post is really annoying, hence I’m trying to go back here. No, I don’t want to boost these posts neither make Mark more rich. Fractals is my hobby, not my income. Or his.
4. I might add an email account again (I lost my account where I registered my UF account so I can’t even get updates or re-registering my copy when I need an instalattion of my old registered – expensive! -copy of the updates since version 5 so I’m still using the v. 4something) just for dealing with any subject that might appear here – questions, comments that don’t fit in the comments page, and other random things. If it goes to a spam list, it’s gone.
5. I still am hating Apophysis. I am in a very very “old school” phase, so it will be more just very common spirals, midgets and some other popular images that will be the core of the next posts, I suppose. Eventually there will be a bit more abstract stuff like in the past, but I need inspiration.
6. It’s very sad to hear about Paul N. Lee’s passing and all his major fractal archive of softwares, tutorials, formulas being gone.
I’ve been posting a couple new images on my Facebook fractal page in the last weeks, which seems more straightforward and faster than coming here, finding a gallery where the image fits and so on. Also, just to get updated on what’s going on, I’ve been visiting some fractal pages here and there, and… things seems to be stuck in 2002. All I see are flowers and flowers and hearts and “necklaces” and stupid images that don’t even follow the basic fractal ideas (repetition, simmetry) anymore, and the boring random Apophysis images. Tried to update my formulas and gradients and some other resources hopefully with something new, but there’s nothing new. One of the good pages (if not the best) with resources is now gone, with the dead of his owner, the famous fractal enthusiast Paul N. Lee which I just found out about it 3 days ago. He kept a huge inventory of almost every fractal software ever made, formula collections, image collections, tutorials (some a bit for outdated softwares but still valid, and way better than these found at deviantart) and so on. I remember having a brief contact with him here and there when I was a member of the UF mailing list, and he was always helpful and friendly with everyone despite all his huge knowledge.
