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.

Sepia tiling

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

A pathological fear of dentistry

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

The Rites of Spring

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

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

A very bad case of rug-bee infestation.