See that animated banner up there? It's only temporary... Those of you wishing to post YOUR idea of the Fractal Forum's banner are welcome to do so. Just reply with your banner to this message. Starting on March 18th, we'll let the members of the fractal forum pick a winner to replace the banner above. JPG and GIF images are allowed. Animated Gifs are allowed as long as you keep the file sizes around 200K or less(preferably smaller to accomodate those on modems). Use whatever fractal software you want. The sample banner is 331 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. Try to stay somewhere around there for proportions and size. Most importantly, have fun and show us what your Fractal banner looks like!

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Please - don't take animated images that blink so fast... But I'm very curious what will be seen here :-) Best wishes, Andreas

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Joy of Frax

Hi Audre - a couple of queries:

Are the entries limited to one per person?

Is the closing date midnight 17th March?

Thanks, Tina

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk

i don't think the entries should be limited... let's get a variety up here for us all to ponder. so feel free to spam us with wonderful art! and yes, it would be midnight THIS SERVER's TIME... which is in Tennessee, USA.

Attached Link: http://normalflora.org/frac.html

here's mine

OH HEY, you know the banner need not be animated.... let's get some variety up here too! i was just feeling happy about the grand opening, so i did an animated banner...

Fractal??Hmmm..Hey I fractaled my arm...Is that the art stuff that uses a Z +/- 1 thang???YEA..HAW..

Thanks Audre - here's a couple for starters ;-) Tina

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk

... and here's the other one.

Tina
AARTIKA! fractal art & design

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk

YEA..HAW.. Sand us a photo, than we can decide that thang :-)

Hi Tina,
that was too hot - I can't decide...
I like both.

Andreas

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Joy of Frax

Attached Link: http://www.ddaydreams.com

Same thing But no blinky. Frank Lee hawkins

Frank Hawkins/Owner/DigitalDaydreams

Frank_Hawkins_Design

Frank Lee Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery Store

 

My U.S.A eBay Graphics Software Store~~ My International eBay Graphics Software Store

 

oohh you know i actually like the no blinky version better. it's truly RICH looking. thanks.

My attempt at making a banner for the fractal forum.

Here is a banner.

Samuel

The Paramathematical Gallery :
http://www.p-gallery.net

Attached Link: http://www.mazilla.com

um... i lost my banner. i just uploaded one to here and after all the refreshing, closing and reopening, diverting routes to come here... its no where. any clue to where it went? i have a couple more i would love to enter too. but cant, if they run off to Fracsville, LalaLand. i will try another ;-)

Attached Link: http://www.mazilla.com

ok nm, lol. that one worked, so i'll try another. looking forward to making more of these, they were fun. good luck everyone! ;-)

Attached Link: http://www.mazilla.com

this is my 3rd for the contest. hope it isnt counted as my 3rd upload since the 1st one was lost lol ;-)

hmmm.. will this work? *crossing fingers*

OOhh you guys! these are some killer banners. i think you've given us all some hard choices to make. so this is it... the entry is now officially closed. those people wishing to vote for a banner, please respond to this thread with your choice. at the end of the voting period, we'll tally up the count and 'make it so.' good luck to everyone and thank you all for taking the time to participate!

These are cool banners. My vote goes to Little Red's. It's graceful and I can see things inside it. I see the 2 masks, one smiling, and one frowning, which represent theater. Seeing things inside fractals is why I like them so much.

I gotta agree, Little Red definately gets my vote :)

I would like to have a more discrete way of voting... Andreas

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Joy of Frax

I have to give Little Red's banner my vote. As a hard core fractalist of many years it would be more likely for me to vote for one of Tina's traditional fractal images, but this forum needs to show and support fractals used in every way. IMHO. There's enough politics and division in the fractal, and fractal art, community as it is. Little Red's image has a bit of the old and a bit of the new. I do wish the banner was a tad bigger or at least the title font was a tad bigger. Again, IMHO, for what it's worth.

Is it too late, really?

Those of you who don't feel comfortable voting publicly, feel free to send an Instand Message to me, or email me at audre@renderosity.com at the end, i'll supply a public tally of votes, but not who voted for what. cheers!

Little Red gets my Vote

Little Red get's my opening vote.{Are you sure you can say that's nudity???}The essence of our Forum Room..Ifeel at home??? Fractographica get's my closing vote. ????Don't we have several different pages for our department{fractals}???I f so couldnt we post a banner in each web page that we control?????

Since no one complained, here's one more.

I wanted to ask the same question about having more than one banner. I just figured that bandwidth and ease of standardization dictated a single image. If in fact we are to have different pages eventually, then lets use some of the others as well. Little Red still gets my vote(not voting twice) for the main banner.

Heh.. Arista, I just didn't want to take a chance on offending someone. It's a puzzling question: "Is someone clothed in fractals truly nude?" Several privately funded studies are underway, as we speak...

Oh yea give it to me.....It's...It's A 10....

if you liked the contest... we can have a 'fractal banner of the month' one... i am game. i love these things. how often would you all like to see the banner rotated? and yes, we will have a 'back room' and a 'gallery' coming on line soon... so we will have banners for that as well. i am thinking that the prize for the winning the banner contest will be to have a link to your rosity gallery up there in the spotlight... perhaps as the forum grows we can get some fractal programs to sponsor us a prize. so hey, go get all your fractal friends to hurry up and make this a huge forum so we can all have a chance to win cool fractal programs. grin

okay we got a member vote for Fractographia

nuther member vote for second of the two Fractographia banners - the one with the pink mandelbrot.

I like aartika's banner, the first one posted.

Fractals are the most wonderful art! The "banner a month" idea is great and one I would like to see put into effect!! I'm also quite excited to hear there will be a backroom and gallery to come!! I've not posted any of mine so far as they tend to get very lost in all the other galleries.

how about a rotating banner? a small java script that randomly selects from all the banners available every time the page is loaded. then everyone that submitted a banner could have a chance at having their banner on the page and as time went on and more banners were submitted it might even become possible not to see the same one twice. Just a suggestion

I like aartika's in post #10. ;] [Don't mind me... just wandering through browsing the new stuff ;)]

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

• Monkeysmell

Hey IB... please do stay awhile... come on in and have some fractal tea... makes for some mighty interesting perspectives grin

Last time I saw in fractals, there was mescaline involved...

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

• Monkeysmell

you're dating yourself! I don't think there is too much of that anymore....

i dated myself once... it was pretty boring... i already knew the punchlines to all the jokes i tried to tell. :P

Shhhhhhh! Don't say that Firefly! Dating oneself is illegal in the bible belt. It's only legal to date cousins....

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

• Monkeysmell

ok, Audre and Ironbear, those are both as new as the Banker's joke!!

snicker I never said I knew any NEW jokes...

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

• Monkeysmell

chuckle well they are funny after you have fractal tea. everything is funny then.

That's the truth! Audre, can you brew up some more tea please???

This is a revised version of my entry. This one fits the size guidelines. If the banners are rotated every few days this one will work better.