Flaming Warrior by Abysimus
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Description
We have often been treated in Hollywood adventure movies to the hero, machete in hand, hacking his way through dense jungle in search of some lost, and mysterious destination. The actual truth is that primary tropical rainforest is actually quite the opposite; the floor is relatively clear of vegetation due to the deep darkness created by100 feet (30 m) of canopy vegetation above. The canopy not only blocks out sunlight, but also damps wind and rain. During a rainstorm falling rain is not generally felt because it is deflected and collected by various canopy plants. The blocking of wind by the canopy makes the forest floor a calm place where only the slightest breeze blows during tropical thunderstorms.
The operative word here is “gloom”. In this environment, even at high noon, a flashlight is much more useful than a machete. In my experience, it is very much like walking through a giant and vast cathedral. On the other hand, there are thousands of things that can kill you in very unpleasant ways. There are, for example, tiny little incandescent neon colored frogs that can kill you in an instant. Vast brilliantly colored toadstools abound (if I can get the bulbs to do what I want, I plan to do a rendering of them in the future). Many of these can kill you too, but in some cases, at least you will die in epiphany. It is most remarkable, therefore, when moving through this vast silent place, occasionally to encounter brilliantly colored flowers in the most bizarre shapes and sizes. I have seen them in sizes considerably more than a foot across. Today’s rendering is an example of one of these, called by the locals the “Flaming Warrior”. It has a remarkable fragrance I could not begin to describe but it is a bit like honeysuckle. It looks soft and delicate, but it is like hard plastic to the touch (like a ‘Bird of Paradise’ flower, but tougher). It thrives quite happily in rotting tree stumps.
Created in Ultra Fractal using various bulbs an quaternions
Comments (12)
greyone
Gorgeous render Stan. Flaming Warrior seems to be the perfect name for this flower. I have never been in a tropical rain forest but your description fits perfectly with what i have been told by others that have had that chance. It is amazing how different it is on the ground from up in the tree top canopies. There are many species of animals that live in those canopies and never come down to the ground throughout their entire life.
peedy
What a beautiful flower! Corrie
eekdog
Looks so pretty Stan, like an alien plant of something cool colors, delightful design..
Glendaw
Wow!! What a beautiful flower,can't say I have felt a flower petal as hard as plastic or for that matter as large as 1 foot across. Stan your text once again is a great lesson. I really enjoy learning from your scripts. (one is never too old to get educatation). You are a super professor!! Thanks for sharing and your art work is phenomenal. Awesome work Stan.
DarkBeam
Fantastic composition
bakapo
a stunning fractal flower. thanks for teaching me about our strange and wonderful world.
mgtcs
Ohhh....Another marvelous design here, you really know how to use the colors and lighting my friend, fantastic composition, this is really an amazing fractal-work, loved it!
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent fractal.
Lenord
Beautiful piece, super work. Most don't know there is a difference from Jungle and Rain Forest just as there are differences between one Desert and another, much depends on Altitude. I've worked in the Proper Jungles of Ghana and Nigeria where it's a sparse Canopy and an abundance of Undergrowth where a Machete is a useful tool but I always found that particular blade more useful along the Coconut tree lined Beaches there for splitting fresh ripened Coconuts. The only true Rainforest I have ever been in is the one close to Mount Pelée volcano on the Island of Martinique and it is just as you described, a most stunning place. A subdued ambient light filled with flashes of most vivid colors, a dense atmosphere caused by the Canopy and vegitation muffling most sounds save for Birds and your own startled voice at what you were observing. Peace
dochtersions
Breathtaking, Stan. This could be the crystal ball where they predict the future with. Well, this is a superb flower bulb, and there is a great bright future growing out of this.
farmerC
Exellent.
npauling
I love this beautiful flower you have created and how lovely it would look in the rotting tree stumps. I love the smell of honeysuckle so I can imagine what smell this has, so wonderful for the senses. We are lucky in our forests here we have nothing that will eat you or hurt you unless some thorns scratch so one can explore at ease. A super fractal flower.