Jock Coopers site http://www.fractal-recursions.com/ has some incredible beautiful content.
Does anyone know what software he would have used to make the images in the Mechanical Gallery?

TIA!

It looks like he's used Ultra Fractal... don't know what formulae or colouring algorithm he's using though...

T.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?Who=jockc

Here's a link to his home page here at Renderosity.  You might want to ask him directly

~Vivian

I have been able to get some of those straight angle things out of the kpk.ucl (KPK Squeezed Banana....set the 'squeeze angle' = 90). Possibly some of the other KPK ucls have some similar things. Also, if the fractal or ucl options has 'ceiling', 'floor', 'trunc' or 'round' at the end of a function option list, those settings tend to cut off the colorings at straight/right angle lines. Try, if you are using multiple layers, to use the difference settings between layers to get some effects.

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

This is the number one question I get asked.  Most of those images use IFS-Barnsley+Jock III in jock.ufm.  Some use tweaked barnsley formulas from eg kpk.ufm or tma2.ufm.  To make it 3d you must combine the UF outputs with a 3d program like Bryce or Cinema 4D (which I use).   There are ways to make it look 3d using pure UF but a true 3d package is much nicer IMHO.

thank you for all your replies!

jock: I'm quite new to UF although I still have a copy Winfract or Fractint
that came of a 5 1/4" floppy attached in the back of a '92 book called "Fractals for Windows by the Waite Group.

I have attached my first UF fractal with post processing using Real Draw Pro v3.1
however its not really the direction I want to go in. As I stated on the outset
I would like to explore the type of material images which you filed under your
mechanical gallery.

I tried loading your formula into UF, see attached jpeg
but I didnt see anything but a black backround.
all I was able to do was change the backround with some .uxf files
Is it possible for you to attach a .upr file that I could learn from
or send it via email ?

thanks!

trying to see if this smaller file makes it!

ok now for the other one!

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

naturally you will need to play with the various parameters on the formula to get something interesting out of it.  Here's an example:

example {
fractal:
  title="example" width=640 height=480 layers=1
  credits="Jock Cooper;8/29/2006"
layer:
  caption="Background" opacity=100
mapping:
  center=0.205321180924/-0.860703124195 magn=8.0096413
formula:
  maxiter=100 filename="jock.ufm" entry="IFS-Barnsley+jockIII"
  p_bailout=1E3 p_mode=Alternate p_bseed=0/1 p_c=0 p_p1=-1.1/-0.1
  p_p2=-3.162500005/1.350000001 f_fn1=cotan f_fn2=cosh f_fn4=ident
  f_fn5=ident f_fn3=ident f_fn6=ident p_func_operation=+
  p_p3=0.59722304/0.753208 p_p4=1/0
inside:
  transfer=linear filename="Standard.ucl" entry="Default"
outside:
  transfer=linear filename="Standard.ucl" entry="Default"
gradient:
  smooth=yes rotation=29 index=29 color=0 index=151 color=16777215
  index=199 color=16777215 index=234 color=16777215
opacity:
  smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
}

thanks again!  yes I understand about the playing around part.

I'm still struggling as try your text.

what exactly do I do with this your text now?
do I now copy and paste your text into the transformation dialog box?

or the reverse: what dialog box did you open that allowed you to copy
the text in your example above?

  sorry about the hand holding i'm expecting of you.

copy the text and just paste it directly into a fractal window in UF.   To do the reverse: I used a text editor to edit the UPR file and copy/paste the text.

thats simply  to simple :)