Forum: Fractals


Subject: new image rules

CarolSassy opened this issue on Jul 26, 2004 ยท 32 posts


CavalierLady posted Tue, 27 July 2004 at 11:07 AM

Well, I admit to wondering where certain images ought to go myself. I understand that this did need to happen. As the years go by, I find myself being comfortable with a situation and resisting new changes, and as Rick so humorously pointed out, moving to the MM gallery and out of our comfy, cozy little fractal gallery is a move I wasn't exactly thrilled about. But y'all are right, it can expand the world of fractal art and open up new possiblities to others, as well as ourselves. I visit other galleries on occasion, but not very often, as it takes a lot more time at the pc and away from home and family. I have only used a tube on eight images. On a couple of them, I wouldn't really consider the tube to be the focal point, but that might not be the viewer's opinion. So to be safe and within the new guidelines, does anything with a tube in it, no matter how small, need to be in the MM gallery? And how does one go about changing them over... by using the edit function? Can they all be moved at one time or only one per day? I am a bit unclear about the rule of mapping an object onto a sphere. To me, the transforms that are done totally within Ultra Fractal ... like spheres, eggs, glass hemisphere, and platonic solids, are some of the highlights with which a user can create some very unique effects. And the key, to me, is that these can all be done ~within~ UF, not brought into bryce, psp, or some other program and manipulated. This effect is a part of the image, and might not necessarily be the focal point of the image, but yet very important to the creator in the overall design of the image. One can easily use some of the various "bring it in" programs to use a jpeg image in uf, like an apophysis flame, and then map it onto a sphere. Would that be going against the new guidelines? If the work is done completely in a fractal generating program, it seems to me that any and all parts of that image are completely fractal in nature, and qualify as belonging in the fractal gallery, no matter what the focal point of the image is. Rick, thanks for the kind words. All this talk about tubes and copyrights and galleries has made me hesitate to use any at all now. I would be happy to go over to the MM gallery to keep your dragon from getting too scared and lonely, when you find one to make an image with. :)) Maria