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.

Pentanomaly

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

Long fractal is long

Enough to make a cat larf?

Midnight forestry

What the headlights pick out.

Grungestamp

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

Siesta time

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