Incubate

Something a little different: wispy, ethereal. Single Apophysis flame.

Twist sixteen

Running with what looks suspiciously like a 'twist' theme, a new twist on those elusive ngon-splits-rectangles flames :D

Spiral dreams

Abstract spiral design rendered deliberately with slight grain.

The Twisted Gallery

Just the place to display truly deviant art ;) Finally getting to grips with edisc-julians.

Stars behind stars behind stars

"Far away in that ocean of gold, stars were silently shooting and falling and finding their fates, among those billions and billions of merging golden lights. And curtain after curtain of gauze was quietly removed, and I saw stars behind stars behind stars, as in the magical Odeons of my youth. And I saw into the vast soft interior of the universe which was slowly and gently turning itself inside out. I went to sleep, and in my sleep I seemed to hear a sound of singing."

- from 'The Sea, The Sea' by iris Murdoch

One of my oft-quoted passages, I finally create an image of it! Rendered with flam3-2.8-beta3.

Sellafield sealife

The old glow-in-the-dark joke, but I couldn't resist the idea of psychedelic corals and teeming fish shoals just off the Cumbrian coast :D

Mekanik

Finally figured out this style!

The new stained glass

Oh, the things they can do with it now! Pre-linked splits-elliptic.

No smoke without fire

The gnarl form epitomises real-world behaviour of smoke.

Flight over Antarctica

The swirling snowdrifts and hidden mountains of that most mysterious of continents basking in the continuous twilight of its 'On' season.

Branes

Just very, very alien. The slight grain I left in deliberately.

They came before dawn

A mediaeval scene of a party of hooded figures arriving somewhere at Night's apogee, to who knows what frightful purpose.

September

Celebrating the early autumn light following a smattering of golden days.

Hot off the press

Extra, extra, read all about it! Celebrating the release of Apophysis 2.09 as thousands of addicts the world over get their fix of the purest iterations. The title comes from the likeness to rolled and stacked newsprint, but also contains an element of self-referentiality in both the first use of the program and my use here and shock revelation of a certain undocumented feature :whisper: ;)

Tip: linked transforms #2 - introducing pre-transforms

Oh joy! I recall my delight on discovering the power of linked transforms as introduced in the 2.08 release. This was a feature that wasn't trumpeted, just quietly slipped in. Well, those sneaky developers have done it again, given us a little Easter Egg quite undocumented in the spartan changelog. 2.09 has much going for it:

• much more responsive


• unused variations greyed out


• only used variables shown


• transform weight permanently visible in Editor


• transform opacity

The thumbnails are a nice addition, but an option to default to names would be better. And that Easter Egg? Right-clicking in the Xaos tab now gives 2 linked transform options: before and after. The old linked transform is now 'after', but the 'before' option, always available via a little work but again completely missed by yours truly, opens up yet another vast landscape of possibilities. In conformity with my previous notation, I'll refer to these as 'pre-transforms': all of this linked transform's output is fed to the selected transform, and it receives its input from all except itself.