Ultrafractal 4.04 So here's an actual fractal - or at least it's a spiral. Say whuh??? No cubo-fractostracto squares and circles this time??? Has the boy lost his marbles totally at last, including his trusty snotty war-boulder shooter??? (no worries - my planned next post reverts back to geofractal style and is just stewing for a while to make sure I still "respect it in the morning" and don't have any other ideas as to composition. lol) This one is actually a major tweak of this piece here - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1184605&member - that began its life as a simple one-layer .upr in a tweak-fest going on in the Fractal Forum here at Rendo a couple of years ago (back when it was more frequented - hint, hint :-) that I had morphed/mangled beyond all recognition (and, as usual 4 me, added like 70 layers to :-)) and was allowed to claim. It uses mainly Toby Marshall's "Painter's Traps" coloring in "tma.ucl". I found a TON of neat things it does that I hadn't messed with back when. No snappy name for it other than the reference to the fact that I'm still using UF4 - I have a hard time naming spirals because they just are what they are as opposed to something that you have a concept in mind to convey and piece 2gether a hundred bits and layers or has some "scenic" vibe. This may be "just a spiral" but I like them for the way they take all sorts of joyous little shape detours on their swirly way round and round and down to unfathomable depths beyond our perception... That said, I DO have another version of it I'm "sorta" working on where I'm thinking of making the greyish stoney backdrop into a scene that employs my trusty squiggly sun fractal, some watery reflections that trail down the big orange part of the spiral and maybe a hint of horizon. Might try to make it look like a cave-painting type thing on the "stone". Just gotta get up the gumption to deal with slowness as this guy is already loading UF down pretty heavily and I'm not sure the idea "works".....maybe just keep slapping on layers until it capitulates....lol Thanks for stopping by, y'all! Rick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***(Fine art giclee' prints of most of my work are available in limited edition on archival paper or canvas - e-mail: drahcir3@hotmail.com and get busy filling that empty spot on the wall! Unique, "one-of-a-kind" (edition size = 1) prints and embellished prints are also available*** :-) ***This image is solely the copyright of Richard B. Spix III and is in no way to be considered "public domain" in any form or usage without the artist's permission with the exception of as, non-distributable personal desktop computer wallpaper of a single user or in journal collections on this site.*** (I hate this stuff, too, but what can we do?)