First of all I want to welcome you to caedes...and to tell you this creation of yours really jumped out at me! I love the colours you used and the awesome GLOW of the whole thing!! I am not sure what it is supposed to be but I just love it!!Its very unusualy compared to a lot of others..and thats what I like very much.
I like your second attempt. It gives me the impression that you actually took a piece of machinery at work photo and played with the shutter speed. In other words, you created a good strong flowing piece with some nice definition to it. I also like your placement of the image. Colors are vivid and pleasing. Nicely done.
Amazing design, but poor detail. Sorry, I don't have time to say more, but if you would allow me, I would like to re-render this for you. Still your image, of course, but my processor is at your disposal. PM or email me.
WOW!!! Great fractal! One of the best on the site but what I feel is taking away from the image is what stuffnstuff said...the quality is very poor...increasing the quality and rendering again should help.
Wen