Playing with Fractals

It is cold outside!  And I mean cold!  We are having our first deep freeze of the year and it will probably get to -12 F here tonight.

The above and below fractal are something I've been playing with.  Since I don't fully grasp the idea of the IFS formulas yet, I like to take a few formulas and just keep changing them in ways.
 
These are in panorama view.  I sort of like them in their simplicity, but they are nothing to write home about.

I had intended on talking about photography and my last trip down the valley before the latest rain/sleet/snow event occurred but then I was looking at the things I was doing tonight and decided to talk about them.

These are different quick renders from the program Mandelbulb 3D.  It is a rather delightful program that I've been exploring for years.

Some of the artists have been pushing this program beyond what I could even imagine.  They are coming up with astonishing images that look like they were drawn for a movie set.

I come up with...
simple stuff.

I don't have the time nor do I have the rendering power to come up with those stunning masterpieces.
However I can come up with beautiful work of my own.

I prefer fun but sometimes our group is given a challenge and I ... find that I can create strange... or a bit 'dark'.

Or I find something colorful and whimsical.

Last night I revisited Incendia which is another fractal program.  Since I went to Windows 10 it seems to want to flicker like mad.  But I got through that issue last night and used the program and some editing to create a 'sculpture' of sorts.

I haven't mastered this program very well, but I do enjoy using it to combine with Mandelbulb 3D and JWildfire.  Sometimes the results are incredible and sometimes I just flat fall on my creative face.

This one was done with JWildfire and more than one fractal 'flame'.

My final edit of the first two Mandelbulbs in this post is as follows.

Burning it up...

There it is, fractal - mania.

JWildfire and Mandelbulb 3d.

Oh let's not forget a bit of Incendia also.

Incendia uses all of my CPU power when rendering something.  But the program delivers some great stuff.  I usually use a fractal created by Mandelbulb 3D or JWildfire as a backround to it.

When the weather gets crappy and I get stuck indoors, I try and open these programs and play around.

I used to play with Bryce but after many tries, I have failed pretty miserably at it.

Today I've been all about wild and color.

Seems the gloom has gotten to me!
I look out the window and see snow coming down in droves.

So I wonder how my 'assignment' for this week of Long Exposure will work in the creek with a hard snow fall.

3" is our new surprise for today.

I'm ready to put on the snowshoes and take a quick trip down the valley and to 'the little' falls.  I'm hoping with the cold to find an abundance of ice on the grasses and rocks.

One can hope.

Anyway there is no wind and the temperature is nearly 8 degrees F!

So I leave you with some colors I've created today.
And go off to see what I can in the woodland.

Fun with Fractals

I just came across a new Fractal program recently called JWildfire.

I wanted to try it out.  In fact I kept going back to look at it and investigate it more before deciding to download the program.  Yes, free.

Donations accepted.

It is much like Apophysis 7X in a way but...not better, but different.  If you have used Apophisis in any form you can probably get along with JWildfire.

Thank you to  Andreas Mascheke for creating this program.
I'm a novice at this new program, but I like trying new things and new graphic 'art' programs.  There is quite the debate as to whether or not computer generated graphics are 'Art'.  

But to me ... yes they are.
If I can control how the colors appear and edit them in 3rd party programs such as CS2 then I have an 'artistic' control over the fractal flames.

How would you define the following creation?

The characters-- dragons were created in Daz 3D.  The backround was created in Mandelbulb 3D.  Everything else was edited in CS2.  Some folks would simply call this fantasy and say there was no artistic talent involved in it.

Yes, I 'generated' it ... I did not draw it. 

It was fun seeing what I could do with different graphic programs.