pookah69 opened this issue on Apr 12, 2005 ยท 9 posts
queri posted Tue, 12 April 2005 at 2:01 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=799315&Start=1&Artist=queri&ByArtist=Yes
Geeze, I thought it might have been all the tofu I eat. Thanks for the compliments, pookah, I like the landscape angle you put on Cragmore. It's fun for me to see my work through someone else's eyes and watch another person's creativity transform it. Which is interesting cause I'm one of the people in the Fractal community who is death on what is called "tweaking". People who get your uprs, kinda like the cr2's of a fractal and then screw with it by just changing color and calling it original. I never open my fractals for tweaking-- well, it's a very rare day when I do. What Pookah's doing with my art-- which is with my permission-- is truly creative and I'm jazzed. Rreynolds, have you used Apophysis? I should check your gallery, shouldn't I? I can't get my mind round that proggie. I love FracFlame which is another version of the flame method, KPT style, it was fairly easy and I used to do a lot of those, until they started to all look alike. UltraFractal serves most of my needs for now. I'm just pleased some people can get it that Fractals are not just Wavy Gravy/ Grateful Dead album covers anymore. I know one woman who does small increments of color in 400 layers of work that is indistinguishable from oil pastels-- still lifes. I don't have that kind of patience, but I do like the ability of fractals to aproximate expressionistic figurative abstracts. And I try to do those as well as I can. Ultrafractal is pricey for a fractal program, most of which are free or close to it. I think, in its case, you get what you pay for. And it can generate some amazing organic textures, that are useful for 3d texturing and backgrounds. Look through my gallery, I have offered several of my fractals for free use-- the terms are clearly spelled out-- in texturing, backgrounds, whatever. I'm sure to offer more. The link I gave is to a picture in my gallery with one of my fractals as a background-- I think you can see that some of the texturing of the fractal and the texturing-- by Sixus1-- of the figure are quite similiar in substance and tone-- purely by accident, I assure you. I don't think the use of fractal in 3d has yet been fully realized. DreamPaint, a master fractalist, has made incredible inroads there. So has TT and samildanach. Thanks again, pookah, I love your work. It's funny, creative, weird, all those good things. And thank you for wanting to use some of my stuff with it. Its a good match. Emily