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

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Abstract triptych 2: The Gryphon

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Abstract triptych 1

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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.