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Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Volume 86 - Disc Spherical Tutorial as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkdRqW1RyLs Tech notes: Fx bubble sph pmx

519 Viewings as of 6/19/15 Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Volume 86 - Disc Spherical Tutorial as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-h8B10-kE Tech notes: Tx3 lin3d polar Fx lin3d sph neg bubble pmx

Featured 2/23/16 in Fractal Paradise Featured 4/2/16 in Art Universe Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Far Reaches by Len1 (see below). Scale up/final render and lettering done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. Title inspired by this great Sidney Poitier film: youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f64hh6k8jc tech notes: 12 29 15 from 9 8 15 from Far Reaches by Len1~

Featured 3/6/16 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Time Bomb by HalTenny (see below). Scale up/final render and lettering done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uYLG5wNkY tech notes: 1 2 16 from Time Bomb by HalTenny~

Featured 9/8/16 in CROSSES, CRAFTS & COLLECTIBLES Featured 6/4/17 in Digital Art at its Best The background of this image is dark blood red, representing the carnage senselessly wrought at the Pulse nightclub earlier this year. The lighter, red center symbolizes both the anatomical heart that pumps blood within us all, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or any of the labels that seem to divide us - the round shape also represents the city of Orlando that rallied valiantly to help the victims and their loved ones. The surrounding pastel rainbow colors stand both for the gay pride banners that formed poignant memorials both at the site and around the world as support poured in, and for the citrus crops and sunshine that norma...

Created as an abstract fractal in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Spider with complex inversion transforms Hacoversh, Sinc, Ztrans4 and Ztrans15 as a Julia image, isolated on just the first dwell. Best if viewed larger. The classic aspiration of young performers used to be to "have their name up in lights". Perhaps now it is more to have their youtube "go viral" or something, but hopefully you get the idea. Dedicated to a certain girl from Riverton and her aspiring ginger-haired daughter. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Octw5mw5OAg

1587 Viewings as of 8/23/17 Featured 1/9/11 in Magic of Mirrored Images Featured 2/13/11 in Inspired Art Top 10 Challenge Winner in Our World of Fantasy Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Update: Please see the marvelous translation of this work by Jaclyn Hughes for Sojie 13, and note that the little girl who loved Snowball is now a beautiful and amazingly talented young woman, bravely trying to get her first real break and hopefully find a role in a Broadway show. Rachel has created her own website, which can be reached from this link Created in Fractal Science Kit as an abstract fractal based on equation Convergent Map 1 with complex inversion transforms Convex, Ztrans11, Ztrans5, Ztrans4, CpxF17 and Hacoversh as a Julia image. Be...

Created in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Convergent Map 7 with complex inversion transforms Ztrans43 and CpxF15 as a Julia image with rectangle limit transform used to "open up the ceiling" with a skylight. Some brightness adjustment in MS Office Picture Manager. Best viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aGtENy2Tw4 Obituary William Douglas "Doug" Edge Sr. (1937 - 2018) WAGRAM — William Douglas "Doug" Edge Sr., 81, of Wagram passed away on Sept. 29, 2018. Doug was born March 20, 1937 in Robeson County. He was the oldest child of William Dennis Edge and Utilee Surles Edge. He retired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation after 40 years of service. He was a dedicated member of Spring Hill Baptist...

Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts A combination of a UF spiral from equation Laris 3 and a spiral made in Fractal Science Kit with equation Fractovia. Both were then combined in UF 5.04 using equation Circly Koch Curve. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcvO2t8Ntg

1004 Viewings as of 1/30/15 It may look beautiful, but watch out for the stinger! Created in Fractal Science Kit, and here's a little memory for you Streisand fans out there: youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYClk5V7n4M

Created as a Julia image in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Maurer Rose Shape Flower Sharp3B, then rendered in triplicate using GIMP v2.6 on a black background. Inspired by the movie and envisioned with the slogan "Carolina Women are Blue Steel Magnolias". Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93qJ1IIgkw

Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Image of IFS elliptic split flame fractal originally created in Fractal Science Kit, but rendered as a larger image in UF. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkKIxw_1fw

1034 Viewings as of 3/9/16 Featured 9/29/10 and 10/1/10 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 12/17/10 in Our World of Fantasy Featured 2/27/11 in The X Factor Featured 3/26/11 in Apophysis Tutorial Fun Featured 5/1/11 in Artists Universe Featured 1/13/15 in Digital Art At Its Best Top 10 Challenge Winner in Fractal Abstracts Featured 3/13/16 in 1000 Plus Top 10 placement in "Transitions" Challenge Winner in 1000 Plus 4/7/16 IFS Orbital Fractal created in Fractal Science Kit

1036 Viewings as of 6/16/15 Featured 1-19-2011 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 6/21/15 in 1000 Plus Created as an abstract fractal in Fractal Science Kit, scaled up in UF and with some contrast enhancement in MS Picture Manager. Best if viewed larger. I went back to a very old fractal and used some of my recent techniques to give it more interesting colors, and made it faster to render by just selecting dwells 71-140 (instead of the original 1-400) since they appeared to contain most of the essential image, and managed to gain a more interesting center in the process. The apparent texture reminds me of chiffon fabrics layered upon each other, which in turn reminds me of this classic hit by The Chiffons: youtube:http://www.youtube.com/wat...

Created in Fractal Science Kit using a new transform called Rectangular Limit, this two-dimensional image appears to be a 3D box with shadowed elements "inside", but on closer inspection, it really isn't clear what is really in or out. This work is dedicated, by a loving son, to Professor Emeritus Emily Stacy Barrow, July 2, 1927 - December 2, 2010. May she finally rest in eternal peace. Though wonderfully humble by nature, my mother was a remarkable person; a pioneering scientist in a field with very few women, an effective advocate for civil rights and workplace fairness on behalf of those who had no voice, a volunteer for the poor in our community, and a champion for creation of men's and women's alcoholism recovery houses. Fo...

Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Convergent Map 10 with complex inversion transforms CpxF66 and hacoversh as a Julia image, with some brightness adjustment in MS Office Picture Manager and scaled up in UF. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoyiR3ob7yk

Featured 12/28/14 in BUBBLING ARTISTS Selected 12/28/14 as group Avatar in Apophysis Tutorial Fun Featured 1/3/15 in Fractal Paradise Featured 1/14/15 in Tuesday Afternoon Featured 2/14/15 in Fractal Perception Featured 2/28/15 in Apophysis Tutorial Fun Challenge Winner!! 11/7/15 in Tuesday Afternoon's Scorpio Challenge Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. An added Fx contains Julian power 2, with JuliaN power 6 in Tx8. Initial colors from built-in Apo gradient vchira28. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed full screen. Apo image was combined with this previous GIMP/M3D wor...

Featured 12/02/2010 in DAP Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Combined blend of a Fractal Science Kit fractal image and a basic Julia in Ultra Fractal 5.04 (new toy!). youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsV75Ac54

My small tribute to a visionary pioneer who inspired so many over the past decades to explore new "universes", with computers as space vessels, microscopes, cameras, and canvasses. His work has touched our hearts, and energized our minds. We can only hope that in his next dimension, he will see images of even greater beauty. Fractals shown were generated in Tierazon, Sterling2, and Fractal Science Kit, with postwork in Powerpoint and Paint. Photo portrait (possibly copyrighted) from Wikipedia.

Featured 12/26/14 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 12/27/14 in From the Heart Featured 1/3/15 in Art Universe Featured 1/3/15 in Fractal Combinations Featured 1/5/15 in Back In Black "Love held us. Kindness held us. We were suffering what we were living by. I began to know my story then. Like everybody’s, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at ti...

6593 Viewings as of 6/13/19 Created in Apophysis 7x v14 following this tutorial in the Apophysis Tutorial Fun group. Rendered as a .png file, then blended with duplicate layers and a black background in GIMP v2.6, then saved in .jpg format, finally scaled up in UF. Sixth in a series of images generated with the instructions in this tutorial called Escher Stained Glass by dA's SaTaNiA (Damien), using plugin Diamond in the final transform and escher_beta=0.25 in Tx2. Best if viewed larger.

Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Fractal Science Kit with no postwork, this cute little fellow very cooperatively appeared in red and green just in time to make some nice Christmas Cards (hint, hint). This is not intended to imply that my art is approaching the quality of Whistler (or even his Mother!), just that it looks like a little boy whistling. Amazingly, I was able to find a YouTube related to Christmas and whistling - enjoy! youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcnBVCSpwXo

750 Viewings as of 2/22/17 Featured 12/25/10 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 2/22/17 in Old Farts of RB Created in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Convergent Map 9 with complex inversion transforms Ztrans8 and CpxF56 as a Mandelbrot image, with some brightness adjustment in MS Office Picture Manager. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi3fBIk1PVk

742 Viewings as of 5/22/19 Featured 6/2/13 in Fractal Paradise Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Based on the Trig 5 function in Fractal Science Kit, this was an unexpectedly long 14 hour render, but I think the details (please View Larger) were worth the wait. I wasn't quite brave enough to make this totally black and white - hope the blue center makes the silver shades a little more effective. While the Mandelbrot sets and the curved silver orbit traps naturally suggested the name for this image, that name in turn reminded me of Jay Silverheels, the Native American actor who portrayed Tonto in the TV classic The Lone Ranger. Let us return now to those thrilling days of yesteryear to see Jay in action...selling Chevy Blazers?!?? ...

1023 Viewings as of 7/30/15 Featured 8/13/15 in 1000 Plus Featured 8/31/15 in Fringe Science and The Unexplained Composed of several different images created with Apophysis 7x v14, some phosphorescent deep space creatures for your enjoyment. Best if viewed larger. One of my kid's favorite songs about 10 years ago (wow! this will be an "oldie" soon!) was this one by a group called Alien Ant Farm...this collage created in GIMP v2.6 and scaled up in UF contains some elements that reminded me of them... youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE

Featured 5/22/19 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Fractal Science Kit based on equation Convergent Map 9 with complex inversion transforms Ztrans37 and CpxF18 as a Mandelbrot image, then rendered larger in UF, with some brightness adjustment in MS Office Picture Manager. Best if viewed larger. A zoomed detail of one of the little gold Mandies (which turned into different colors in the zoom) can be seen in The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (UF0059) uploaded earlier today. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6TfGD6CQs0

An abstract fractal image created initially in Apophysis 7x15b based on the tutorial Volume 82 – Floral Celebration Tutorial by lightaesthetic on DA in Apophysis Tutorial Fun group. Image created using the basic tutorial settings, but with plugin postmirror x added to Tx2. Background and other modifications added in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger Everyone always talks about things "spiraling out of control" or worrying that the economy might go into a "death spiral"...so I thought, as a digital artist who loves spirals, that I should stand up and defend them! When done properly, even a "death spiral" can be accomplished with perfect control. :-) youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3T5A4WsWCQ

Created in Fractal Science Kit, based on an equation called Wholly Holey, this abstract fractal looks to me like a head-on view of a cow with it's legs being pulled in opposite directions into two worm holes. Maybe I've been looking at these images too long - what do you see? While you're pondering, here's an oldie from the Cowsils...youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0CqIeLjkQ

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Basic tut with a rotation of Tx1 back to 0 degrees to change the ngon geometry, and movement/resizing of Tx8 (the Julia transform) to alter the overall pattern. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUl0HG3x8Vk

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the eJuliaTut by Platinus as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Adjusted the variable e-push rotation in Tx3 and one of the xaos values. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9f-MZX-58

In fancy circuit boards you sometimes have gold pin connectors and wires - this one reminded me of something like that. Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Basic tut with replacement of bubble by cylinder in Tx7. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMnR2divMlA

Featured 11/23/14 in Fractal Abstracts Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the eJuliaTut by Platinus as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIZqINSsso4

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Circular Flame Tutorial or Unpolar & Glynnsim by pillemaster as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ka8iHQBSw

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Basic tut with exchange of xheart for ngon in Tx1 to make the smallest heart shapes, and xheart for bubble in Tx7 to make the larger hearts. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed fullscreen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzADF9IzZ9Q

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Basic tut with colors tweaked to red and green for Christmas. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJpGmUPp6vE

Created initially as an abstract fractal with Apophysis 7x15b following the Xaos Revealed by FractalDesire as shown in the latest forum in Apophysis Tutorial Fun. Basic tut with replacement of bubble by cylinder in Tx7, and plugin "block" replacing ngon in Tx1. Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrTsBj_hBQw