Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1118762

I've been feeling a lot of guilt lately. I put the linked image in my gallery and called it "Pure Fractal". I'm afraid that's a lie. Here's my confession: It all started when I created a virgin Apophysis flame, generated with a random batch with some symmetry defaults. Then I applied a spiralize script to it. Spiralizing an innocent flame was the first step in stealing it's virtue, but I'm sorry to say that there's more. I'm so ashamed... because I ripped it away from its mother and moved it to UF, but that's only the beginning. I used the UF gradient editor to adjust the colors, but that's OK right? That's not too far over the line, is it? But here's the bad part: I applied a UF mapping transformation to it. I tried to hide my sin by applying the same transformation to a couple of background layers, but that only made it worse. I'm sorry to say that it's not over yet. I was then brazen enough to render it and bring it up in Photoshop. I adjusted the brightness, contrast, colors, sharpness and on and on and on. I turned that pure flame into a whore. I'm sorry, but I just can't help it. It won't stop. I hope someday that I will overcome my sinful behavior. Or maybe the Church of the Apophysals will recognize its hypocrisy and modify it's doctrines, "pure Apophysis flame", "single flame only" and "no post processing". That's probably my only hope. I'm too far gone. Pray for me.