Celtic Cross by PaulDeCelle

Fractal • Cultural and Spiritual Art • posted on Jan 02, 2008

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The Celtic Cross combines Christian symbolism (the cross) with elements of the Old Religions (the sun ring and knotwork designs). I got to wondering how one would go about working one up with UF, and this is the result. Thanks for looking!

Comments (18)

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lkmitch

11:21PM | Wed, 02 January 2008

Excellent work, Paul!

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Electralena

11:26PM | Wed, 02 January 2008

Beautiful Cross. Fantastic work!!!

kuzy62

4:08AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Really beautiful Paul!

TheWolfGirl

5:00AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Very nicely done Paul. I seem to remember a Celtic knot coloring from way back. Is that the trick here. (My head is also working out torus xforms in the background.) The massing and balance are perfect.

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RodolfoCiminelli

5:12AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Wonderful creation, have a great beauty....!!!

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mansco

5:26AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

A splendid design, love it ;O)

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Mathefrax

5:58AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

how lovely. Nice feat of 'getting it all where it should be'.. love it !! You never lose your edge !!

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algra

6:13AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Smart and impressive creation.

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dixievb

8:08AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Wow! Love to see you using UF like this.

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KPK

9:47AM | Thu, 03 January 2008

A great one Paul, it looks amazing!

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Tropsie

1:16PM | Thu, 03 January 2008

That's done with UF? I wouldn't even think it's a fractal! Wonderful!

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abmlober

2:21PM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Hi Paul, what a nice gift here :-) Ciao, Andreas

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kansas

5:38PM | Thu, 03 January 2008

A very Beautiful Cross!

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Rykk

6:35PM | Thu, 03 January 2008

Killer Kool Keltic! :-)

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philuf

1:23PM | Fri, 04 January 2008

Stupendous UF mastering!

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Timbuk2

3:21PM | Sat, 05 January 2008

Excellent work.

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tresamie

5:20PM | Sat, 05 January 2008

Extraordinary! Beautiful details :)

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jgkane

3:30PM | Wed, 23 January 2008

I like the Celtic cross, Paul. The background is easily from UF, but is the cross superimposed on it? Nice, whatever way you have achieved it. Over 30 years ago, I used to draw Celtic crosses and knotwork by hand, and learnt Celtic calligraphy, for presentation illuminated scrolls etc. I initially used one of Scottish designer George Bain's old construction books, for inspiration. I'm sure that I still have it somewhere. I'm sure that I came across a program some years ago, which claimed to generate knotwork, but never followed it up. I took up fractal landscape rendering, first on the ATARI St and AMIGA, before upgrading to a PC with the first BRYCE 3D, VISTA PRO and the embryo VUE D'ESPRIT programs. Any good Celtic crosses I see in churchyards, I try to photograph. This effort is nice and clean. Regards, John.