Faintly Flowered

Faintly Flowered

Not very often i do a render on a white background but sometimes i like this faint pastel look that shows up the details of the texturing on this one nicely. Second Post today because i missed doing one yesterday.

Water Fantasy

Down the Drain

Experimenting with the new version of Apophysis 3D, using the DOF which gives a fractal more depth by softening and blurring some parts. Im happy with the result even if i haven't quite figured it out totally yet.

Fractal of the Day

Enchanted Garden

I named this one Enchanted Garden because it looks like a place where fairies and elves might like to dwell on a wintery moonlit night. The cool glowing colors add a mysterious aura, a gradient that worked very well with this image.

Happy New Year!

Champagne and Fireworks

A Fractal a Day keeps the doctor away...well it does for me lol, so this year im going to try and post at least one fractal a day, sometimes i render more than one but i will pick the one i think is my personal best of the day.... For today my personal "masterpiece" from 2008 is called Champagne and Fireworks...it took me nearly a month on and off to make it, i made it from scratch, carefully placing each transform to shape the champagne glas i was determined to get.
So heres wishing everyone a bubbly, healthy and prosperous Happy New Year!

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Wonderful World of Gnarls

Head over Heels

Dance of the Cobra

When the Dog Gnarls

Gee up Gnarlie

Carousel of Gnarls

Be an Animal

Snap Crackle Pop and Gnarl

Gnarly Fountain

Playing with Fire

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Gnarl

Today i want to show a type of fractal called Gnarl.

Noun
Singular - gnarl
Plural - gnarls

1. a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
2. something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

Verb
Infinitive - to gnarl
Third person singular - gnarls
Simple past - gnarled
Past participle - gnarled
Present participle - gnarling

1. (transitive) to knot or twist something
2. (intransitive) to snarl or growl; to gnar

but in mathematics, and also in Fractals it means:-
The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter ξ.

Or to put it simply, twisted, knotted, deformed.

Resources:-
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnarl http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gnarl

In FractalArt the knots look like eyes sometimes and can make for some very funny pictures as you will see in my next post.
Enjoy my Fractal World of Gnarls :-)

A Taste of my Fractals

Carvings of a Totem Pole

Silken Secrets

Make a Decision

Those Stars

DeLIGHTful

Wings upon Wings

The Orange One

Garden of Spirals

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