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but no more. I received some flack about a year ago, when I posted a flip comment about my flatulent response to the preponderance of fractal images in the galleries. Having discovered queri's wonderful fractal images, (which I am now incorporating into my Poser images with her kind permission), I want to publicly recant my crude comment on that medium, and encourage others to make use of fractals as backgrounds, as I have in my most recent two gallery images--the possibilities are considerable. Collaboration rocks--try it!

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FYI, here's a link to my other experiment with fractals, which I actually think produced a better result, but the "Angle of the Dangle" image draws more hit due to the titillating thumbnail.

You should try playing around with the freeware program, Apophysis 2 to create and modify your own fractals.

Thanks, rreynolds, but I hesitate to take on another software. There's still so much to learn about Poser, and I'd rather rely on the expertise of others, like queri, who have gained in-depth knowledge and produce great results that they're willing to share. Maybe you can post a link though, for others who would like to check out the fractal freeware?

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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

I love Fractals. I recently posted in the fractal forum asking for help in learning how to make my own. Art is art, and it's only your imagination that limits you; and fractals are art. I'm glad you see the merits of them now.

I tossed one Apophysis fractal into my gallery. It's nothing special, but shows what can be done with the program with little effort. I'm by no means an expert in the program, but it's sometimes fun to take it out and see what it does. Apophysis 2 is easy to use and has a low learning curve. Basically, you just load some parameters, or use a preset that others have created (many in freebies here), and let the system create a bunch of random patterns based on that set. Then you click one of the random names to see what it looks like. Other options allow tweaking the pattern (not too intutively, though, but you eventually start to figure out what does what) and fooling with gradients to change the color patterns.

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Fractals are fun to incorporate, and not just as wallpaper or fabric textures. See post 5 of this thread where the fractal is used as landscape around the figure. Carolly

hauksdottir, thanks for the reference to that other thread. Lots of great ideas to experiment with there!!