polyfractalisation

The screaming sangfroid

2012-01-10T08:55:00.001Z

Twisted lazysusan-julian. These absolutely need full view. The title is... spontaneous ;)

Festive merry-go-round

2011-12-25T07:53:00.001Z

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

Snakeskinnertube art

2011-12-24T12:12:00.001Z

Oh my concatenated Joycean elision!

Exploring the urban jungle

2011-12-23T13:11:00.000Z

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

Fireball

2011-12-21T09:18:00.000Z

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

Inner fire

2011-12-19T10:06:00.000Z

The result of gnarling a rings2/julian!

Over the rooftops

2011-12-18T16:08:00.000Z

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

2011-12-18T09:55:00.000Z

More glynnia goodness but straight, not gnarled ;)

Delta

2011-12-15T13:15:00.000Z

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

2011-12-14T11:35:00.001Z

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

Chance migration of shoals

2011-12-12T13:53:00.000Z

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

The Marginals

2011-12-04T10:06:00.000Z

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

2011-12-02T15:56:00.000Z

A mycological feast!

In labyrinths of coral caves

2011-11-29T11:41:00.001Z

Echoes of Pink Floyd ;)

Eclipse garden

2011-11-21T10:03:00.000Z

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

2011-11-15T09:10:00.001Z

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

2011-11-14T13:43:00.000Z

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

Lunar exploration

2011-11-13T15:58:00.001Z

Found some inspiration from this eclipse plugin!

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

That butterfly brooch

2011-10-23T13:09:00.000+01:00

Going to the 4th power on the julian.

A schematic of the multiverse

2011-10-22T13:31:00.000+01:00

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

2011-10-18T13:35:00.001+01:00

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

Someone's vision of heaven

2011-10-15T13:44:00.001+01:00

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

Trade secrets: rug weaving

2011-09-22T18:58:00.002+01:00

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

2011-09-15T13:23:00.000+01:00

"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

2011-09-14T14:40:00.002+01:00

Inspired by Amy Hooton's latest series.

The relations of things various

2011-08-31T18:58:00.001+01:00

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

2011-08-16T14:32:00.000+01:00

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

Building bridges

2011-08-15T19:12:00.001+01:00

It all got a bit out of hand...

Hawkmoth

2011-08-14T09:52:00.001+01:00

Finally getting some interesting results from deltaA.

The eternal cascade

2011-07-21T12:24:00.001+01:00

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

Dreamweaver

2011-05-30T11:48:00.000+01:00

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

Georgia on my mind

2011-05-27T16:07:00.001+01:00

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

A dark assembly

2011-05-26T18:36:00.000+01:00

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

2011-05-16T16:12:00.000+01:00

Psychedelic and surreal first outing for a new framework.

Black swan Medusa

2011-05-15T15:51:00.000+01:00

Finally returning to those gnarled glynnias.

Tactics

2011-05-11T20:34:00.000+01:00

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

2011-05-11T19:09:00.000+01:00

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

Abstract triptych 3: Dark matters

2011-05-10T14:54:00.001+01:00

#3 of 3

Abstract triptych 2: The Gryphon

2011-05-10T14:52:00.001+01:00

#2 of 3

Abstract triptych 1

2011-05-10T14:46:00.002+01:00

#1 of 3

Time to clean the fishpond

2011-05-09T18:05:00.001+01:00

Now I've gone totally tangential.

The tempest

2011-05-08T16:11:00.001+01:00

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

2011-05-07T20:15:00.001+01:00

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

2011-05-06T16:12:00.000+01:00

There goes consensual reality for a few hours...

Himalayan pass

2011-05-03T10:38:00.001+01:00

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

Duel

2011-05-02T09:22:00.001+01:00

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

Beyond good and evil

2011-04-29T14:35:00.001+01:00

... exists a realm of harmonious dissonance.

A sinister passage

2011-04-27T18:54:00.001+01:00

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

2011-04-26T16:30:00.000+01:00

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

Pollution

2011-04-13T19:23:00.000+01:00

Texture-rich abstract. Rendered with Chaotica.

The brood

2011-03-13T14:14:00.000Z

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.

Sepia tiling

2011-03-08T12:30:00.000Z

Now we're cooking... Combi-fractals are the new fractals!

A pathological fear of dentistry

2011-03-07T20:11:00.000Z

First outing using this new combi-fractal technique. Rendered with Chaotica.

The Rites of Spring

2011-03-04T12:19:00.001Z

Not a style I've put a great deal of effort into, much to my chagrin, but here, I've perhaps found a small original twist that's worth presenting. Large format to reflect the mythic nature of the subject matter, I see this as packed full of ambiguous dancing figures, the protruding phalli suggesting fertility, the tricky light that of a dappled forest glade.

Homage to Rothko

2011-03-03T07:51:00.000Z

I was blown away by Mark Rothko's Seagram paintings when I first came upon them in their dedicated shrine in Tate Modern: the low lighting seemed to elicit an ecclesiastical hush from the stunned 'worshippers', giving a peculiar echo-ey, otherworldly soundscape to augment the viewing. From a distance, they seem like ill-defined rectangles of one colour on another, yet as one approaches, the work gradually manifests, the multiple paint layers peeping through near the borders to create a numinous, luminous uncertainty that somehow contains a hope which defeats the grim assertion of the monolithic rectangles themselves.

I've been after creating something suitable in Apophysis for some years now, but was never before satisfied. This builds on a technique introduced here, but utilising a cascade of diminishing cellsize to initially rip apart the structure at medium scale and reintegrate it towards the micro. Obviously, the border zone is here expanded to emphasise my own impressions. Hardly fractal, but 100% Apophysis nonetheless.

Full view essential.

Threadbare

2011-03-01T13:54:00.001Z

A very bad case of rug-bee infestation.

Pentanomaly

2011-02-22T11:54:00.000Z

Nothing quite like prising open an extra half-dimension...

Long fractal is long

2011-02-21T14:17:00.000Z

Enough to make a cat larf?

Midnight forestry

2011-02-20T16:41:00.000Z

What the headlights pick out.

Grungestamp

2011-02-19T12:11:00.000Z

Getting seriously into texture at the moment. Deliberately low-quality render to enhance that aspect. Read all about it here.

Siesta time

2011-02-14T15:37:00.001Z

The harsh light of a Mediterranean mid-afternoon casts sharp shadows on sleep-shuttered windows.

Coiled again

2011-02-13T07:29:00.000Z

Exotic fabrics by the bushel.

One thousand fairytale scenes

2011-02-12T16:21:00.000Z

Just stare... and set your imagination free.

Difficult terrain

2011-02-11T16:15:00.001Z

Auger-linked old-school linear/spherical combo.

My psychedelic webs

2011-01-28T10:37:00.001Z

Ortho makes for an interesting rings2 substitution in the rings2-julian combo.

The gates of R'lyeh

2011-01-18T18:26:00.000Z

I decided to revisit splits-elliptic. This is the result, a suitably (I hope!) imposing representation of Lovecraft's famous submerged domain of the great Cthulhu.

Tree-ring circus

2011-01-15T07:56:00.000Z

My entry for Apophysis Challenge #61, what I shall tongue-in-cheekily refer to as "Don't move, don't turn around!". Some crafty stuff in here: a 4-transform chain-linked loop; the movement issue sidestepped by using mobius; and some mad colouring using 2 dc plugins.

Some kinda trip

2011-01-09T11:12:00.000Z

Colours, light, patterns, never reaching the end because there is no end to the infinite.

That mushroom cloud

2011-01-08T20:17:00.000Z

I'm not done yet... :D

Strange roots

2011-01-08T14:41:00.001Z

More Glynn goodness. Title from a rather good horror story about werewolves.

The Glynn tree

2011-01-07T12:22:00.001Z

A whole new vista opens, via this.

Suspension of disbelief

2011-01-04T15:41:00.001Z

It's all gone a bit fuzzy...

Back to school

2011-01-03T10:05:00.000Z

Glynn finally eyed a spherical fish suspiciously. "Someone linked a blurred pearl in the bubble" was all that he said. A little High Crypticism to start the year.

Abstract woodcut

2010-12-31T13:26:00.001Z

You knew it had to come: the 7-chained disc-julian!

Amazing what's in the grass

2010-12-31T11:09:00.000Z

Always going a step further: 5-chained disc-julian :D

Somewhere in the corner

2010-12-31T10:18:00.001Z

Triple-chained disc-julian, original idea from here.

Cloud computing (sunrise mix)

2010-12-29T15:02:00.001Z

Must get used to flexing my Apo muscles again - a trophy, not atrophy ;) My entry for Apophysis Challenge #59, splits-juliascope base.

Reflections

2010-12-24T15:51:00.000Z

A warm and enfolding image to celebrate the season and wish everyone the best possible holiday.

Stellar birth pangs

2010-12-23T19:04:00.000Z

New stars beginning to coalesce in their gravitational crucibles within a galactic foundry.

Re-mapping the cosmos

2010-12-19T15:38:00.001Z

A relative oldie, splits-ngon style.

Temple of the Sun

2010-12-18T14:54:00.001Z

Glynnia paired with twoface, plus a little hyperbolic.

The leopard

2010-12-17T11:17:00.001Z

More glynnia, looped with, well, any of the julia family.

The full glory

2010-12-15T17:44:00.001Z

My own humble attempt to get to grips with the mysterious glynnia variation.

Perlin chocolate melt

2010-11-21T15:49:00.000Z

Just a quick showcase for this wonderful new dc_perlin plugin. Includes presentation box ;-)

Moth

2010-10-31T15:30:00.000Z

First outing for a new combo/framework separation-bipolar.

The light of a thousand suns

2010-10-25T16:12:00.000+01:00

Two transforms!

Temporal weave

2010-10-25T11:26:00.000+01:00

Psychedelic abstract: peer into the mirror of your mind.

Rain-streaked autumn Sunday

2010-10-24T16:29:00.000+01:00

Suffused with inadmissible melancholia.

Studies in turbulence

2010-10-12T18:29:00.001+01:00

Been a while since I've done a gnarl.

Vor-tex

2010-10-12T11:44:00.001+01:00

Inspired by this.

Deep in the workings

2010-10-11T17:42:00.000+01:00

"Right, now I'm pretty sure we connect this bit here..."

Warholian palette test

2010-10-11T10:46:00.000+01:00

Created especially for the Abstract Colours Contest. Because the form is repeated, the focus falls on the changing colour palette as the eye saccades across the motifs.

Syzygy

2010-09-15T20:30:00.000+01:00

So two-faced ;)

Batik

2010-09-14T16:03:00.000+01:00

As a comparison with the previous, here's a GlynnSim2 framework.

Painted eggs

2010-09-14T11:47:00.001+01:00

Always a major thrill to stumble upon a new framework. Not spherical/curl/mobius-juliascope, nor GlynnSim, nor flux: this is log.

Lingam shamanic

2010-09-12T14:23:00.001+01:00

I decided to get some DC into my plastic. Ooh, Mr Shaman, am I tripping or are you really pleased to see me? :D

Exhibition space

2010-08-30T20:37:00.001+01:00

Found a tutorial that I'd downloaded but never tried, a variation on the flipped disc style http://spearhawk.deviantart.com/art/Mirror-Disc-Tutorial-49113096

Float on

2010-08-29T19:26:00.001+01:00

Splits-crop.

Arcanum

2010-08-25T13:48:00.003+01:00

Inspired by this tutorial.

Green and blue

2010-08-07T18:54:00.001+01:00

Just can't keep away from ngon-splits! First of a fresh batch.