Sunday 25 December 2011

Festive merry-go-round

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

Saturday 24 December 2011

Snakeskinnertube art

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Oh my concatenated Joycean elision!

Friday 23 December 2011

Exploring the urban jungle

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

Wednesday 21 December 2011

Fireball

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

Monday 19 December 2011

Inner fire

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The result of gnarling a rings2/julian!

Sunday 18 December 2011

Over the rooftops

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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

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More glynnia goodness but straight, not gnarled ;)

Thursday 15 December 2011

Delta

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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.

Wednesday 14 December 2011

Nightlife

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

Monday 12 December 2011

Chance migration of shoals

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

Sunday 4 December 2011

The Marginals

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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...

Friday 2 December 2011

Bracket fungi

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A mycological feast!

Tuesday 29 November 2011

In labyrinths of coral caves

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Echoes of Pink Floyd ;)

Monday 21 November 2011

Eclipse garden

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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 ;)

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Dying embers

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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!

Monday 14 November 2011

A warm welcome

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

Sunday 13 November 2011

Lunar exploration

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Found some inspiration from this eclipse plugin!

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

Sunday 23 October 2011

That butterfly brooch

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Going to the 4th power on the julian.

Saturday 22 October 2011

A schematic of the multiverse

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

Tuesday 18 October 2011

The Devil's in the detail

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

Saturday 15 October 2011

Someone's vision of heaven

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

Thursday 22 September 2011

Trade secrets: rug weaving

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

Thursday 15 September 2011

The Numismatist's secret stash

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"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."

Wednesday 14 September 2011

Endless dreams of deep

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Inspired by Amy Hooton's latest series.

Wednesday 31 August 2011

The relations of things various

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

Tuesday 16 August 2011

The thing in the surplice cupboard

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

Monday 15 August 2011

Building bridges

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It all got a bit out of hand...

Sunday 14 August 2011

Hawkmoth

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Finally getting some interesting results from deltaA.

Thursday 21 July 2011

The eternal cascade

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

Monday 30 May 2011

Dreamweaver

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

Friday 27 May 2011

Georgia on my mind

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

Thursday 26 May 2011

A dark assembly

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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.

Monday 16 May 2011

Flying balloons on Party Hill

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Psychedelic and surreal first outing for a new framework.

Sunday 15 May 2011

Black swan Medusa

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Finally returning to those gnarled glynnias.

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Tactics

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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

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

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Abstract triptych 3: Dark matters

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#3 of 3

Abstract triptych 2: The Gryphon

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#2 of 3

Abstract triptych 1

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#1 of 3

Monday 9 May 2011

Time to clean the fishpond

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Now I've gone totally tangential.

Sunday 8 May 2011

The tempest

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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.

Saturday 7 May 2011

Thy unholy garland

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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 ;)

Friday 6 May 2011

My enraptured dissolution

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There goes consensual reality for a few hours...

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Himalayan pass

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

Monday 2 May 2011

Duel

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

Friday 29 April 2011

Beyond good and evil

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... exists a realm of harmonious dissonance.

Wednesday 27 April 2011

A sinister passage

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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...

Tuesday 26 April 2011

This infernal staining

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

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Pollution

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Texture-rich abstract. Rendered with Chaotica.

Sunday 13 March 2011

The brood

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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.