Now, as a suggestion from Randy, a fractal contest is upon you. You will have one week to create a fractalistic masterwork for me to judge. I'll crown a winner, do some honorable mentions, and all that jazz. There will be no themes or constraints - any fractal program, any scripts, anything. This contest is the canvas, your program the paint.
I looked at every fractal flame in this thread, looked like one of the default flames that apophysis creates when you open it with some triangles moved around and mutations. If you have a forum filled with people doing that you will start to see similar things over again, because Apophysis' random is not so random and the mutations are also very similar.
In Apophysis the real art comes by creating a flame from a blank canvas. You can only do that by clearing the random fractal in the Transform Editor (the new black document button)
because Apophysis' random batches are very distinguishable, its mutations are very predictable (because you can set what kind of mutation and what amplitude they'll be mutated at).
They are both apophysis. You can make very organized self-similar forms in apophysis when you know what you are doing.
I didn't realize the bottom picture would be so small, but you can see it blown up here: http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs43/f/2009/161/9/8/Divine_Comedy_by_Synthetamine.swf
I can't have it officially entered if it isn't a fractal. . . .
And it doesn't look like a fractal. . . .
It's really cool though. What'd you use to make it?
@ComposerONE: Neat. I could see the first one being made in Apo, and the 2nd one too I guess. . .did you use any plugins or extra scripts, or just what came with the software? Also, how'd you animate it? Sorry for asking so many questions.
