Festive merry-go-round

A break for a glynnia I saved just for the day. Merry Christmas, or what you will!

Snakeskinnertube art

Oh my concatenated Joycean elision!

Exploring the urban jungle

First of my new cut and twisted lazysusan-julians, a style I've rather neglected before.

Fireball

The soul-numbing sky-scorching terror of a close encounter with an astronomical body. How... suitable for the winter solstice ;)

Inner fire

The result of gnarling a rings2/julian!

Over the rooftops

A simple Sierpinski tile substituted with lazyjess - 'tis an awesome plugin for this style! I love the surreally recursive vistas of receding rooftops. Used the Stopping SL feature of Chaotica for the first time to retain a little grain.

The Calling

More glynnia goodness but straight, not gnarled ;)

Delta

Although this is only a simple twist on gnarled glynnias, the result is so different that it deserves its own moniker. Geological abstract? Whatever, it's something that needs to be rendered internally as Chaotica still renders some glynnias differently.

Nightlife

Stills from an extended 2 a.m. moment of liquid bliss. Hey, I remember these ;)

Chance migration of shoals

A bit of wordplay for the last of these gnarled glynnias.

The Marginals

Crammed with hints and glimpses of lifeforms and entities that inhabit the margins between sea and sand, between land and air, between waking and dreaming, between organ and organism...

Bracket fungi

A mycological feast!

In labyrinths of coral caves

Echoes of Pink Floyd ;)

Eclipse garden

A secret garden thriving on the low light levels of the solar eclipse, and whose twisted vistas and outrageous foliage appear only to the initiated ;)

Dying embers

A tweak from a different region of the previous flame. These use a refinement of my texturing and painting techniques that I hope to post about shortly!

A warm welcome

Another new plugin-inspired creation, this time idisc reworks. Back to that painted look.

Lunar exploration

Found some inspiration from this eclipse plugin!

Full view essential to appreciate the textural effects - click through.

That butterfly brooch

Going to the 4th power on the julian.

A schematic of the multiverse

Continuing a systematic, but leisurely, exploration of gaskets - this one's a reverse mobius-julian with a surprise structural tweak via the mobius variables.

The Devil's in the detail

Another fallout from my gasket exploration. Apophysis/chaotica with some post-sharpening to bring out that all-important detail.

Someone's vision of heaven

Whilst exploring the many ways to make a gasket, I came upon a strange inversion that I developed to this.

Trade secrets: rug weaving

First outing for me for Michael Faber's trade variation, here chain-linked to lazysusan from the disc of a disc-julian.

The Numismatist's secret stash

"Practically quivering with suppressed glee, now that he'd committed himself, the Numismatist slid aside one of the large rugs and hauled open a large trapdoor in the polished wooden floor. By the light of the flickering torch in his hand, I beheld an amazing sight: coin from all the corners of the globe, in every conceivable hue of gold, in various patinas of age, splling, cascading, erupting, and fading into the darkest recesses of that underfloor treasure-house."

Endless dreams of deep

Inspired by Amy Hooton's latest series.

The relations of things various

Inspired by the Ducks/Ducky/Talis results from other softwares, I sought an alternative space-filling pattern in Apo.

The thing in the surplice cupboard

H.P. Lovecraft meets M.R. James ;)

Building bridges

It all got a bit out of hand...

Hawkmoth

Finally getting some interesting results from deltaA.

The eternal cascade

I've been low and uninspired for too long. A fresh offering in the rings2-julian style.

Dreamweaver

Bwraps7 texturing applied to an oscilloscope-substituted Sierpinski tile. Then I couldn't resist an extra twist ;)

Georgia on my mind

My entry for Apophysis Challenge #80, Georgia O’Keeffe style. Inspired by these works.

A dark assembly

First gnarled glynnia rendered with Chaotica that I'm happy with. Not the image I created in Apo (grain even at 4000), but still with its own charm.

Flying balloons on Party Hill

Psychedelic and surreal first outing for a new framework.

Black swan Medusa

Finally returning to those gnarled glynnias.

Tactics

Couldn't resist a quick trial for Xyrus's GdOffs plugin!

Tactics® is a new electronic touchscreen game for 1 to 4 players. Like Marjjong, tiles are removed by simultaneously touching a pair of identical tiles. However, the game is raised to a much higher level by exchanging tiles, causing both tiles and sometimes some of the adjacent tiles to change form. As a two-player game, it surpasses chess in potential complexity.

Modern life is SO confusing

A simple geometric abstract that blows the brain as it foolhardily attempts to grasp the whole.

Abstract triptych 3: Dark matters

#3 of 3

Abstract triptych 2: The Gryphon

#2 of 3

Abstract triptych 1

#1 of 3

Time to clean the fishpond

Now I've gone totally tangential.

The tempest

A brief respite from gnarled glynnias to try... a gnarled splits/elliptic! Inspired by Xyrus's Millenium, except I've broken up the regularity of the bwraps7 pattern with a couple of additions to obtain an appearance of raw energy suited to a violent storm. A natural diptych arising from the splits/elliptic base.

Rendered with Chaotica, full view essential.

Thy unholy garland

bone white bird head
conjoined skulls and crouching lizard
knobbly pterosaurs and demons worse
i call upon thee and thy legions
to go forth with talon and claw and pseudopod
and rain and rein and reign thy havoc
till order is no more, and chaos restor'd to her throne

- Erisian incantation concocted whilst the balance of mind was disturbed ;)

My enraptured dissolution

There goes consensual reality for a few hours...

Himalayan pass

The snow never melts in the valley pass forever in lee of the surrounding peaks.

Duel

Opposing forces face off over a divide, whilst simulataneously confronting their own shadows.

Beyond good and evil

... exists a realm of harmonious dissonance.

A sinister passage

Looking somewhere between a brackish backwater of the Underworld and an organo-tech nightmare from the latest computer game, this is a test run for two hitherto overlooked variations, pre_rotate_x and pre_rotate_y. I may yet find uses for their post_ counterparts...

This infernal staining

Experimenting with direct colouring: pre-linking with dc_linear and keeping the dc amount low gives some interesting effects.

Pollution

Texture-rich abstract. Rendered with Chaotica.

The brood

The familiar features of a disc-julian brood above and below a night-sea of julia waves, haunting dreams and cracking the tenderness of waking hours.