[Retsof]

Why?  Because it's awesome.  Here's one to start, who's next?

EDIT:  ...And another!

[watsisname]

Nice render, very high quality and smooth!  Looks like a visual out of the end of 2001. 

Edit:  Saw your edit.  I like the second one even more, it looks like it belongs in Freespace!

I apologize in advance, but I'm a hugeass apophysis fan, so I'm going to start gushing fractal imagery now. D:

Mutual Gravitation.  An experiment in symmetry and the "Disk Spiral" variety of fractal.


Bioluminescence.  Another disk spiral.


Jeweled Marble. 


Light of Earendil.  Yeah, I love LotR.


Light And Shadow.  An experiment in black and white.


Divine Moments of Truth.  Inspired by a Shpongle song about DMT.


Fire Element.  3-Way Symmetry.  One of my earliest and still a favorite.  Sadly I lost the parameter file long ago.


Spirit Element.  4-Way Symmetry.


Subspace.  This one was made in the 3D Apophysis hack that someone posted on DA a while back.



Lastly, a nebula I just finished rendering.  A few small touchups in GIMP (color fixing and added star to center) but otherwise it's all Apophysis.

[Retsof]

Those are awesome, Light of Earendi is awesome, and Fire Element needs to be in some particularly awesome Zelda fic.

[watsisname]

Experimented with different transforms for a bit and came up with something... quite interesting!  Didn't have to make any post edits (other than remove transparency) -- this is a raw flame.



6 transforms + Final Transform.  Variations include Noise, Spherical, Spiral, Bubble, Gaussian Blur, Pre-Blur, Radial-Blur, Linear, and Swirl.

Parameter File:

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<Flames name="Binary System A3">
<flame name="Apophysis-100912-372" version="Apophysis 2.09" size="1920 1080" center="-1.20142 0.5981" scale="192" rotate="52.43" zoom="0.75" oversample="1" filter="0.2" quality="5" background="0 0 0" brightness="4" gamma="4" gamma_threshold="0.04" >
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   <xform weight="0.3" color="0.416" symmetry="0.642" bubble="-0.1" gaussian_blur="0.1" pre_blur="1" coefs="0.617334 0 0 0.617334 0 0" />
   <xform weight="0.5" color="0.416" symmetry="0.642" swirl="-0.3" bubble="-0.1" noise="0.2" gaussian_blur="0.2" pre_blur="1" coefs="0.244464 0 0 0.244464 0.180307 -0.238517" />
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[Retsof]

After seeing Fire Element i decided to try for Triforce themed stuff.  This abomination (in a good way) was a result.  I love the creepy vibe it has, and have been experimenting with gradients to see if I can get an even more evil feel.

EDIT:  Hm... it needs a black background and more detail.  Sadly, I'm on my laptop, so I'm putting up the parameters so I can do more with this on my home computer.

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<Flames name="EvilTri1">
<flame name="Apophysis EvilTri1" version="Apophysis 2.09" size="106 78" center="-0.019466 -0.161244" scale="33.72" zoom="-0.117" oversample="1" filter="0.2" quality="1" background="0 0 0" brightness="4" gamma="4" gamma_threshold="0.04" >
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</Flames>


[watsisname]

Spiky!  Since you've gotten me stuck on Zelda imagery, plus I've been playing Skyward Sword lately, my first impression was something you'd see in the Forest Temple in OoT.

On a Freespace line of thought it strikes me as decidedly shivan, like some deathly occult symbol you'd find on the wall of a shivan temple... if shivans have temples.   And if this were red and black. 

[Retsof]

I love this program so much...

[watsisname]

Hehe, sounds like you've been bitten.

Another soul for the lord apophysis.

[IronBeer]

This is a really nifty program. A little arcane at first, but some tinkering makes the functionality clear in a hurry.

There's one thing I've been running into: I've got a flame that I want to render more or less as it appears in Apophysis; it sort of resembles matter falling into a black hole, really wispy and smokelike with a lot of black space. The trouble is that when I render the flame to disk, there's virtually no black space in the render, save for the "black hole" at the center. Are there some settings in the Render menu that I've set incorrectly?

I apologize if nobody really gets the gist of what I'm trying to convey- lemme know and I can upload some pictures for clarity.

[watsisname]

My best guess is that maybe it is being rendered as a .png with transparency, which can show up as white instead of black when you actually open the image up.  Check the General tab under Options (Ctrl+P) and see if png transparency is enabled or not.  (If this is what's going on you could also fix after-the-fact by opening the render in an image editor and adding a black layer beneath the fractal, then merge and remove transparency).

Another possibility is that there is low-level "noise" in the fractal which isn't showing up in the preview, but after rendering becomes more apparent.  I don't think this is the problem based on your description, but if it is you can try adjusting the brightness and gamma settings, or the gradient itself.

If those don't help you can post the flame file (saved in the parameter subfolder by default, just open the file in notepad and copy the text here with the code tag), I'll be happy to take a look at it for you.

[IronBeer]

My best guess is that maybe it is being rendered as a .png with transparency, which can show up as white instead of black when you actually open the image up.  Check the General tab under Options (Ctrl+P) and see if png transparency is enabled or not.

That fixed it; thanks a lot! Frickin' transparency completely ruined the render, but I saved the parameters.

Speaking of which, here's the image that I was working on, it's the first flame I'm really proud of: I call it "The Well of Souls". Especially with the coloring applied, it really makes me think of lost souls, either fleeing from the void, or being drawn in.


And here's the flame file if anybody's interested:

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<Flames name="well of souls">
<flame name="well of souls" version="Apophysis 2.09" size="106 78" center="0.205877310380882 0.0507313169319141" scale="15.45" oversample="1" filter="0.2" quality="50" background="0 0 0" brightness="4" gamma="4" gamma_threshold="0.04" >
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</flame>
</Flames>


[watsisname]

Glad that got sorted out!  Love the fractal, with that smoothness and color it's almost like glowing ink.  Quite eerie.