Chaos Fields

Monday meets chaos. For today's fun, here is Space Crystal. Credits: Fractalitious, Brush Engine Van Gogh, Photoshop CS6, iPhone camera.

That's some nice work. Fractint is such a classic! I haven't heard of that program in a long long while but I'm glad somebody still uses it.

I currently use Artmatic Designer which is also a great program for exploring fractals, of course you can make some of them yourself.

It's really neat seeing your work!

For a weekend heatwave, here is Pod. Credits: Photoshop CS6, Brush Engine Van Gogh using the comet brush, Fractal Domains.

Getting ready for the weekend. Here is Fractal Forest. Credits: Photoshop CS6, Xaos fractal generator, Rays by Kochubey, SolarGen by TBH-1138, Grunge Dynamo by Mardar, A Simple Cutout.

And for the final musing of the weekend, here is A Hole in my Life. Credits: Photoshop CS6, Fractal Domains, Picasso Redux, iPhone camera.

Thanks Ghislaine! Kiko is a very social cat. Likes all people and even some dogs. For the holiday weekend (for some of you), here is Water Plants 5. Too lazy to do credits, FF was used.

If you need another cat model, I would like to see mine with your new filter...

The Star is more lighten and clear. You know, it is very funny what we start together with our cats. I envoy experimenting with you.

Will you have it in other colors ? This one is very nice. The image is more better than mine. I like the "Before / After" look. We can compare the difference and the result is nice and funny. Thanks for having take care of my request. You are so kind.

Look familiar? Yes, this is FF generated. Definitely not ready to go, but I made major progress today in both the UI aspects and the color mapping challenges. Thanks to CFandM for insight into how to zoom into these infinite things. Long term I would like to add additional Mandelbrot variants a la FRACTINT.

More fractal experimenting. I actually have a user interface where I can zoom in 2,000,000 times. Here is an example of that.

Thanks. If I can get the Mandelbrot the way I like, I am going to look into other Mandel formulas. CFandM's unusual fractals and the way he generates them got me going. And now if only I could do a set_slider_input from LUA... would have made my life a lot easier on the coding end.

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Do you know if AD has "orbital trap" fractals?

I missed a question you posted a while back. Sorry! quick answer, not directly available but possible.

Unfortunately, I may not be able to release the mandelbrot filter. Main reason: I use value controls where it says not to (red !). I have to for the UI aspect, the smooth slider control is needed for this filter to be usable at all. I will post the filter here in the hope that it can be released some day... If anyone has a solution to this issue, let me know.

Spectral Mandelbrot.ffxml

Chaos for the day: Leftover Paint vs. Rocks. Credits: Paint Thingy by Sharandra, Surface Texture Engine, Fractal Domains.

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Rick Duim wrote: If anyone has a solution to this issue, let me know.

Hi Rick,

Here's an example of getting a value slider converted for the Script component without an error message. (I did the handling for the ZOOM slider only as an example.) Note that you need to modify the script to account for turning the numerical input into grayscale input by using the initialize trick (example in the attached) so that the initial values are read and set once from the image input. You need to modify the remapping values so the range is the same as originally: in this case, the multiplier 0,001 for the Zoom value did it. Also, the grayscale input needs to be made an HDR input in the Script Component Input editor.

A bit convoluted but it works.

TD

Spectral Mandelbrot 2.ffxml

Tested a bit, ThreeDee gets an A+ . I will probably do the modifications / workarounds over the weekend and change the fine tuning controls to the same method as the zooming. Plus I'll need some clamping of values in the code etc etc. Thanks again! I get the issues with initialization, have been reading the forum threads about the over-calling of prepare(), lack of true "global" variables and the current thread issues with LUA.

"We will either find a way, or make one" Hannibal

The updated mandel filter with extra goodies will be out early next week. It's been submitted. Three Dee alert. Thanks for the insight into using "grayscale". I took it a bit further, instead of init I used get_slider_input() calls in the prepare to get the value sliders. This works (!) even though they are defined as Grayscale in the input editor. Here's some of the results, One Cell Mandelbrot.

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Rick Duim wrote: ...instead of init I used get_slider_input() calls in the prepare to get the value sliders. This works (!) even though they are defined as Grayscale in the input editor.

No kidding? You've found the loophole!

Can't wait for the update Rick..

More fun with today's new filter: Kiko Looking Up. Credits: Photoshop CS6, Edge Echo, iPhone camera.

More experimenting: inside coloring using the distance estimator method. Here's a close up of the inside of the Mandelbrot.

Thnaks. More experimentation with Mandelbrots, showing both the "inside" (top) and the "outside" (bottom) of the fractal.