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Fractal Gallery 37

Feb 20

Posted by Mr. Mandelbrot in Galleries, Images | 4 Comments

Descriptions on the images will be added later. It has way more images than planned, it will be fixed soon. Also there are some huge images this time. Whatever. One of these images has a cheating, I had to fix its contrast in Photoshop.

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A new gallery is coming soon.

Feb 20

Posted by Mr. Mandelbrot in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

It’s been a while, but new images will appear soon. I won’t be restrained to galleries and X images per gallery. I will be posting images and galleries as I want.

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This is why I should keep going

Nov 19

Posted by Mr. Mandelbrot in General, Images | 1 Comment

Many thanks to the guys at Orbit Trap to have quoted my opinions, to slightly discuss them and more, to understood them perfectly. I’m more than anything learning to be honest with my own feelings (artistically and in everything else) so whatever I’ve said here about my disappointments with fractal stuff in general that was repercuted by Orbit Trap is absolutely true. Whenever I say I am hating Apophysis for example, I really do. But I’m hating the Deviant kind of Apophysis – the mass-produced, randomized thing.

I don’t have any personal or commercial links to any of these people (from the evil or the good side of the force) so I just said what happened to me and my creative process during all these years and how to following the self-similarity flock was making me a worse artist and making extremely bored. And I think I could only understand what was going on when I read these posts at Orbit trap pointing me to some obvious things that most people (comfortably) refuse to see, better still have your comment box filled with friends pats on the back than making something you’re enjoying.

I’m touching some sensitive fields now I guess trying the Mandelbulb images (and I’m starting to like them despite hating it at first), as they seem to be the latest hit of the moment, but as there isn’t much of a community or group dedicated to that (not that I have seen) except the few posts at the Fractal Forums neither too many tutorials in the common corporate fractal galleries, which I try as much as possible not to read unless i’m looking for a fix for a problem, I am a bit “isolated” from whatever kind of “style trend” in Mandelbulbs that might be en vogue (sorry for the french) so far and I’m very pleased with the images I’m making even though I can make only an image a week or something. I see a lot of posts mentioning “whipped cream”, “cathedrals” etc. etc. but I have no idea how to do that neither I want to do that kind of thing. I’m using Mandelbulb 3D just like when I first started Fractint: using my instinct. I liked what I did? OK, I’ll save and post. I didn’t like? Let’s start again.

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3D Glyph Abstract bug - Fractint. Apophysis spirals 2 Butterfly inside a Julia Corner of the room Curled toe shoe Fractal sunset Hypnotic dots octopus' garden open box

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Starting to test the softwares… and what a surprise!

Aug 21

Posted by Mr. Mandelbrot in General | Comments off

Let’s try not to get bored and install all these softwares. First part starts here. Little I knew that I was going to have a nice surprise…

First I’ve unzipped most of the downloaded stuff that doesn’t come as a single .exe file (.RARs and .ZIPs), then what was left (a bunch of .EXEs) I decided to install already after that so I didn’t have to redownload boring stuff by accident. All these files and installation packages are quite small and simple, so I’m already expecting to find very basic softwares…

First installed softwares were: Aros Magic, Double Fractal and Fractint 21 beta (it appears as “Fractint for Windows” in the menu, although it’s not called WinFract!)

Aros Magic: a toy. Full of small jokes here and there, and nothing but a toy. Seems that its “millions of colours” feature is like when you set Fractint to work with more than 256 colours, it goes to a default blue and black gradient and all your previous colour schemes are set to that instead. Seems that it works with the basic images and formulas only.

Double Fractal: another toy. It’s not very easy to guess that you must click one of the images that appear in the window that opens when you launch the software. Then another window opens which seems to be the “editor”. Very basic images as well.

Fractint 21 beta (actually it seems to be v. 20.99): YAY. Fast, Evolution method is available, big resolutions, works smoothly in Windows 7, which means… it’s all I ever wanted from Fractint to be. Now it’s time to install my alternative formula collections and my colour maps to that version and have some real good fun again. I couldn’t really be more pleased. Sorry but the project of testing all these other softwares will be stopped for a while, it’s Fractint time again!

Note: it says “not for public release” in big bold letters in the Fractint beta main window. I can’t be sure how stable it is yet (seems quite stable so far) and I’ll respect this and won’t publish the link for a download of this version, in case you are interested. Just do a search or visit some of the links in my menu, it’s hidden there somewhere and it’s quite easy to be found. Also remember if you wish to install that it’s a beta software, and it might (still) have bugs, use it at your own risk.

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Abstract bug - Fractint. Butterfly inside a Julia Corner of the room Fractal sunset Hypnotic dots octopus' garden Orgform surfaces infinite kissing spirals Lights in brown

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A bit of boredom that might be useful

Aug 19

Posted by Mr. Mandelbrot in General | Comments off

Some say that good ideas came out of boredom. I’m bored. So I had this idea while there aren’t new images enough for a new gallery… I’ll try to find as many fractal softwares as I can using the links here (that are by far not a full list of all the fractal softwares available) and some extra Google searches and see what happens. Just like when I found Fractint by accident, this might happen again and I can hopefully find some new toy. Or get even more bored. I might write a few comments about some of the most interesting ones and write also some bad comments if I really don’t like some. But there won’t be a step by step review of each one or any kind of comparison between the softwares, I’m doing this just for fun.

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