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Planet Fractal
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Uploaded: 10/26/03 4:09 PM GMT
Planet Fractal
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(Main) Abstract->Fractal
Generated in Ultrafractal. Filtered in Photoshop.
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Marideath
10/26/03 7:02 PM GMT
I am overawed by this one! You do such beautiful work....sigh.
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Marideath the Newbie
Thanks again.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
I don't really know a whole ton about this, but would the shadow be more at an angle? Other then that, good job.
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-WinterNight
The shadow should be crescent shaped, otherwise it is a great job!
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
Thanks for the comments.
Yes, it could certainly be a lot more realistic. However, it was not a serious attempt at rendering a planet. Rather, it was just a fractal that was post-processed in Photoshop and looks very planet-like. This is why I put in the fractal gallery and not the space gallery.
Yes, it could certainly be a lot more realistic. However, it was not a serious attempt at rendering a planet. Rather, it was just a fractal that was post-processed in Photoshop and looks very planet-like. This is why I put in the fractal gallery and not the space gallery.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
I think it would be fair to say that the fractal is not obvious in this one. The underlying fractal is an Ikenaga Map. However, the subsequent layering both in Ultrafractal and Photoshop means that it is not a traditional or obvious fractal pic.
Ironically, fractals are very tied up with chaos theory, and there is no better example of that than in clouds and weather systems (indeed one of the earliest proponents of chaos theory, whose name I forget, was a metereologist amongst other things). Anyway, I am digressing somewhat here; the fractal is the planet itself and everything that you see (just as much of the world around us is a huge fractal). This particular fractal is not one of the obvious or pretty ones, like Mandelbrots.
Let's just say it was a bit of an experiment, and probably not one that I will repeat.
Ironically, fractals are very tied up with chaos theory, and there is no better example of that than in clouds and weather systems (indeed one of the earliest proponents of chaos theory, whose name I forget, was a metereologist amongst other things). Anyway, I am digressing somewhat here; the fractal is the planet itself and everything that you see (just as much of the world around us is a huge fractal). This particular fractal is not one of the obvious or pretty ones, like Mandelbrots.
Let's just say it was a bit of an experiment, and probably not one that I will repeat.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Like I said , I thought it was great, only the dark-side flaw gave it away. You made a pretty believable looking planet otherwise.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
Thanks, though it was pretty much a fluke. Maybe in the distant future I will play around with some modelling program and actually create a planet. There's something nice about the images.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
I really like this even though I don't understand all the theory. Over my dumb little head. Great job.
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Cheers!!!
I like it but i think that the angle of the shadow should be less straight i think it should dip and rise some to give it that extra realism, other than that great job
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"The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering."
-bruce lee
the planet where all the Fractals come from. a like the design and its very goooooood!
:D thanks!
:D thanks!
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Goa/Psychedelic-Trance Producer.
I think it looks cool...the shadow isn't that big a deal
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"Feel free to point, stare, and talk amongst yourselves."
Very nice.
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Wow, that's an awesome job done on photoshop!! I have photoshop it's simply amazing what you can do on that program. Again, very well done!
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A person is a person, no matter how small - Dr. Seuss
I like the idea of a fractal planet - very neat. I'm wondering how much is a result of clever post-processing (not something to be knocked or sneezed at, of course) and how much was really in the original fractal itself. I don't know if it matters, but it affects what this means in a sense or what it symbolises - not the image itself, of course.
- cfr
- cfr
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