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Fractal art is always fresh and new, yet always reinvented. I guess that's why it's known as the fractal world -- wherever you wander, the hills and trees look a little different. Each inhabitant will be sleeping under a unique patchwork quilt, or -- in the fingers of the many-hued dawn -- consuming marginally deviating mushrooms.

Creds:

This is my version of a flame created from this splits elliptic tutorial by Satania.

Formed and rendered in Apophysis 7X (older version). Quality 50,000, oversample 2, approximately 25-hour render at this resolution. I also increased the contrast of the Apophysis gradient before rendering, which is probably why it's so stark.

The outlines were out of whack, so I got rid of them by deleting the cylinder transforms. It looks better, and the centre of the design is clearer -- but if anyone has ideas how to include outlines in this 'wheel' form without them getting in a tangle, I'm listening...

No post-processing in Photoshop, except for plain black background and levels adjustment.