Hello, it's nice to post again after such a long time.
This unprecedented COVID19 situation has locked me in home, working remotely, so there is much more time available for things that I could not previously spend time on.
And yes, one of these things is my beloved fractals (one other is tracing non-euclidean shapes on the walls - while active, this makes time work differently...)
So, it took me some time to get the grasp of JWildFire (the app I use for fractals) again, but it was like riding the bicycle: you never really forget how to do it. Perhaps I am bit rusty still, but the rust will soon go away!
So, here is my first lockdown-fractal:
Infection
by @nyarlathotepA fractal made in JWildFire
Now that I see it in a blog post, it reminds me of a LP-cover, maybe of some death-metal band. I am no graphic artist, but here is an attempt I made in PaintBrush. I wish someone with better skill worked this over, and added some nice, creepy, occult font with many spikes and webs and tentacles, and a proper album title:
I also made some variations, but I had no time to render them properly. Here is a quick draft of a darker, bleaker version:
Keep yourselves safe and locked-down, the Stars are -almost- Right!
Wow! a real post! The corners of your home is definitely moving in the right angles.
I have plastered all corners into roundness a long time ago... they travel through corners, you know...
Yes... ... the's how they came here :) :D >D he ... HEHE AHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHAHAAAHAHAHAHA!
I mean... that's what I heard?
"infection" is a good descriptor, this has the feel of a creeping sickness spreading across swamp water, oozing from the buried corpse of a not-quite-dead-entity deep in the muck. Nice to see you posting again!
Heh, spot on - that was exactly what I had in mind with this fractal!
This is so pretty and fragile looking :)
Thanks -- but, you know, if this fragile thing breaks, an infinite number of new ones take its place! The beauty of never-ending fractals.
What a beautifully deadly thing that is! One of the loveliest fractals I have ever seen!
Hey, i'm glad you like it, thank you. An interesting fact is that there is no post-processing at all, everything is made in the fractal application "JWildFire".
That is interesting -- Apophysis is a simpler program, but I don't post-process in it either unless I want I different color of background, which is rare. The fractals themselves are enough!
I was explaining this to an admirer of my extended walkthrough of "Beautifully Deadly" -- the ability to work with fractal programs is like having an exceedingly strong arm and millions of paintbrushes, each brush iterating a single line and motion into the texture of a brush stroke, and then iterating brush stroke upon brush stroke millions and billions of times. Not much needs to be added to as profound a process as that!
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