Textured Spirals

Crackled Spiral 1

Crackled Spiral 2

Crackled Spiral 3

Crackled Spiral 4

Crackle is more commonly used to describe a sound but it can also be used to describe glazed pottery or glassware bearing a decorative surface network of fine cracks, and as you can see thats exactly what the variation called crackle does in Apophysis.
By changing the variables (size, power, distortion etc) of this variation you can get many different types of "cracked" looks, here just a few results i have been able to get on a simple spiral.

Happy Anniversary

English Rose

This one is a very personal one for someone very special to me.
"Happy Anniversary" my Love!
(again a bit late lol, sorry :D )

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

Images are copyrighted by international law.
Use of any image in any way without written
permission of the owner is strictly prohibited.
All images © Amorina Ashton 2007-2008.