Deconstructing midnight

Never too far away from the abstracts, this is the first of a new series 'Ready-framed abstracts', all utilising post_crop on the final transform to produce the frame.

Harry Haller's magic theatre

Inspired by the hallucinatory denouement of Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf'. Whilst the theatre is described as a horseshoe-shaped corridor with many doors, I've used artistic licence to depict a four-fold vision of an infinitely long straight corridor as the atmosphere felt perfect.

The I Ching arcade

Divine personal change in a booth of your selection!

Forest snitterfields

From 'The Meaning of Liff':

SNITTER (n.)
One of the rather unfunny newspaper clippings pinned to an office wall, the humour of which is supposed to derive from the fact that the headline contains a name similar to that of one of the occupants to the office.

SNITTERBY (n.)
Someone who pins snitters (q.v.) on to snitterfields (q.v.) and is also suspected of being responsible for the extinction of virginstows (q.v.)

SNITTERFIELD (n.)
Office noticeboard on which snitters (q.v.),cards saying 'You don't have to be mad to work here, but if you are it helps !!!' and slightly smutty postcards from Ibiza get pinned up by snitterbies (q.v.)

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Wicker work

A new twist for ngon-splits.

Glamour shoot

Neon lights, neon lips, mirrors, angles, dark corners: a session in the studio.

Spectral analysis

My entry for Apophysis Challenge #34, bipolar. I've been meaning to get back into these and finally have.

Blade

Pure Apophysis using the Crop plugin to create the 'frame'. Its effect is subtly different from simply cropping and adding an artificial 1 px frame as the fractal appears to have smeared itself out against an invisible barrier.

#3 (and final) of "Alt flower" series

The sinew engine

A huge render, the better to appreciate the unique texture and colouring.

#2 of "Alt flower" series

A very digital flower

I'm rather enamoured of the effect of the blur-pixelize overlay. Full view essential.

#1 of "Alt flower" series

The Sun remains the same

Applying DC to the stained glass framework.

Confluence

A coming-together of multiple flows.

In a sentimental mood

More DC experimentation, named after the Duke Ellington composition.

Adventures in Candyland

Well, now that I'm here... A nice big render to get lost in :D

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Antarctic expedition

First application of DC to the abstract style.

The Pillars of Candyland

For the sweet of tooth...

First contact

"Hai! There's so much we want to tell you about yourselves..." Close encounters with gelatinous aliens in the oceans' abysmal trenches.

The dreams in the Witch House

Named after the Lovecraft story, of course, and created using the new 7X DC feature. This uses the latest blending version (7X.14), bringing the best of both worlds to bear and producing genuinely radical new colouring effects.