got dem Apo blues by whizstreet
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Why the "Apo blues"?
In memoriam for some recent dearly departed.
I was generating some flames in Apo3D late last evening and was getting ready to call it a night. I went to save the parameters of a flame (the one you are looking at here) into one of several "flame" files I've built up containing Apo3D parameters, and up popped an odd error message that I hadn't seen before. It did not however bomb the program, so I didn't think much about it, simply re-saved the parameters of the flame (no error this time), played around for a few more minutes, saved a couple of more flames, and then closed down for the night.
Then this afternoon I opened Apo3D again to tweak the flames from last evening and to my surprise and dismay found that the file that had contained last night's flames and dozens of others from the last month or two appeared to now only contain the last three flames I saved after last night's error message.
Hmmm....This cannot be, I thought. Where are all the other parameter files? Did I open the wrong file? Did I ...but I soon realized that...sunnuvabeesh!!...they're...they're...they're... gone....unrecoverable!!! Pffffft!!!
Odd sense of loss, somehow...I have the images that were generated from the lost parameters, but can no longer recreate them. So it goes in the digital world.
Okay. They're gone. Time to go make new stuff (and to remember to occasionally make a copy of each param file).
So here's the memoriam..."Apo blues"...ode to the digital disappearance.
One Apophysis3D flame; PSP for sig and frame. Full-size for best detail.
Comments (14)
amota99517
Sorry to hear about the loss of your parameters. Did you by any chance find the bak file? The backup file would have all of the flames that you are missing.
bakapo
this is beautiful. I'm sorry about the missing files. :(
leanndra
Scott, what a beautiful and dynamic flame! Sorry for the loss! Have had it happen too. All I can say is... "Ah Technology"! ;) Lea
whizstreet
Amota99517: Thanks for the idea, but the bak file had lost everything too.
farmerC
Beautiful work.
melevos
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clydedough
Greek to me..im stuck in FE. I gust save my spots on a CD-thousands of em...there small. I feel your pain..ive lost alot in crashes before i started saving. This is very cool-center of a steering wheel? with easy finger controls.
mps
I am very sorry for your loss. This is a beauty.
zmarek
Very nice image. Bravo!
tresamie
It's happened to most of us, sometimes just in the excitement of finding an amazing image and rushing to capture it, only to discover you forgot to save... Now there is just the snapshot. Oh well, a new adventure awaits :)
bpclarke
Oh no... and... as soon as you closed, you no longer have the .BAK file. This is gorgeous though. Excellent work. Bunny
afugatt
Very beautiful!
artice
WOW! THAT LOOK REALLY NEET ON THE TIRE OF MY CAR..AWESOME!!
MagikUnicorn
Superb!!