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(Closed) Fractalize your Xmas Holidays now !!!

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The time has come and the contest is over now !
We are now going to judges all those wonderful entries

I'll make a new journal entry as soon as we finish (should be next week )

Thanks a lot for all your support and awesomeness

Stay devious guyz !

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A little reminder for you guyz !
This is the last call for all passengers

We are the 31st January and the contest is ending really soon !!!
Don't forget to submit your entry before the deadline !
You enjoyed your Xmas holidays? Would you love to make them last forever ?
Make your dream comes true!
Make those memories from those 2012 Holidays in an artwork.
You'll be able to use ALL Fractal Softwares you want.
You can manipulate or animate your fractals if you want.
The main thing you must respect is that your work must be Christmas Related and created especia

Merry Christmas and a Happy New YearHello fellow friends, watchers and everyone else who stumbles upon this...

Today is the 4th Advent, in not even 6 (for some people 7) days is Christmas Eve. Because I won't be at home from Christmas until the 29th or even 30th of December I decided to put up a nice Feature of Christmas Art. Today I had my Mum, her boyfriend and his father over for dinner. We had fried trout filets, boiled potatoes and cucumber sald and a nice apple-vanilla-cinnamon junket as Dessert. I wanted to do something for them - they always support me so much and the father of my mum's boyfriend invites us for dinner so often and he just won't let me pay when we go to a restaurant. So yeah - this is the only chance I have to invite all of them for dinner...and it was so nice even though a lot of work - I guess I will do it again I think somewhere around next year - maybe in April before Easter Sunday or something like that...maybe earlier..I don't know yet ^^ I'm

Project Educate: Tricks of the Trade for ApophysisApophysis: Tricks of the Trade
Apophysis is a freestanding and freeware flame fractal generator originally created by Mark Townsend. According to Damien M. Jones and L. Kerry Mitchell in The Fractal Art Manifesto http://www.fractalus.com/info/manifesto.htm "Generating fractals can be an artistic endeavor, a mathematical pursuit, or just a soothing diversion." Whatever your reasons for wanting to create fractal art, using Apophysis will get you started. It may look intimidating when you first open it, but once you jump in and start using Apophysis, you will find that you can create beautiful fractal art almost right way.
Here are a few tips and tricks we have compiled to help every fractal artist from beginner to advanced users. A very big thank you to everyone who contributed to this article. After each one you will find the name and/or link to the source of the information.
Beginner Tips
~ You should begin your downloa

A very important messageHi everyone! How are you all doing? It's been awhile since I updated my journal and there is a particular issue I want to discuss...
Art theft. It seems lately, I've noticed, that it's getting worse and worse. Or at least for me anyway... So I wanted to dig deep into the meaning of art theft and explain in detail what it means to us artists trying to make a living, or for any under-appreciated artist.
What is Art Theft?
This is my personal answer to this question. Art theft is the action of a person(s), in which they deliberately copy, reproduce, edit, publish, transmit, upload, etc, in any way, without artist written consent (written consent is far more legit than spoken words, as written can be a binding contract, which can be later used as evidence). Art theft is the action of right-clicking & saving, uploading (without permission). It can also be art theft when deliberately copied, such as painting the exact photograph (if said photograph is NOT a stock photo), and used without per

Tense Week So Far But Abby 4 - Part 2 is WRITTEN*edit* Happy note to add to the top... - Abby 4 - Part 2 is WRITTEN. Now to edit it tomorrow.
A lot I have to worry about. The people who will supposedly come to help mom want the house modified/cleaned as I've said and dad wanted me to do a lot of the work they would do first off before they get here. It was rough but I got a lot done. The rush to get mom home right now. *Nicely* timed right as I'm starting my new class unsure of what it will require and how it will go. *sighs*
I'm still writing and it's pretty enjoyable. I've perfected a lot of procrastination especially through Kongregate. I would link some of what I've wasted time on but I'd rather not affect others with the same fate. Stomach is going decently better lately. I can't even remember what I had for dinner tonight. I think something along the lines of the usual. We're going to need to puree for mom for all her meals. Turn her every three hours since people will be watching. Other stuff. Reposition her. No cathet

~* GROUP PROJECT RESULTS *~ THANKS to EVERYONE!
This is the
GROUP PROJECT ~ Creative Collaboration
where all the artists (below)
took a look at the visual art of *chriseastmids (thumbnail)
and individually wrote one line that came to their minds...
This Written Piece is the Collaborative Result
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Here Were the dA Artists Who Made This Happen :iconcheerplz:
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:iconImmy-Is-Thinking: :iconaerobang: :icongreensprite: :iconmbka:
:iconXaathel: :iconwh0rem0ans: :icontinkwig: :icon25percent:
:iconBibire: :icondaonlyoverlord: :iconchriseastmids: :iconFantastic-Mrs-Fox:
:iconscheinbar: :iconsanguinem-et-ignem: :iconAll-My-Darkness: :iconMichelleLynn725:
:iconiliumleather: :iconboegeob: :iconrikoh: :iconScottMan2th:
Thanks, guys!! :iconbravoplz:
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We fled our ancestral oceans,

Some thoughts, some faults and some resolutionsUPDATE: check *TaraRoys' awesome suggestions about how to improve our community

Warning: long journal is long

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I've been talking with fellow deviants this morning, and a lot of thoughts came to my mind. A lot of things I think it could be nice to talk about, 2011 is almost gone and I could do my part sharing with you my resolutions for the new year, deviantART related clearly

I remember that when I started fractaling three years ago that I got comments, faves, watches, support since the very first days I decided to publish my early practicing flames. I remember getting features, joining active groups (at that time the best ones were #FractalDreams and ~ImagersFractalDDs ) participating to many contests. I wonder... is it still like this? How does the new-come fractal artist feel when he/she first tries to join deviantART fractal community?
Maybe it's just my impression, but I think this place has become less welcoming than it used to be, despite

Generous donatorsI've had a lot on my plate the last weeks, so I had to give up two of the groups was an admin in, so I can focus more onto the two groups I'm founder for, :#fractalhousewives: and :#spectrum-of-art: Since SoA is the biggest one, with most members, it's above 3500 members I have to focus onto it first. So, I've gotten three new admins :iconyaayplz: and now I want to try to make it a supergroup. So I put up a donation pool.

These who donate more than 50 points will get a journal feature. But all donations are highly valued, and I'll collect them all and make a big feature later

Here are the donors! Give them all your love!
:icon25percent: Alain has some really cool apophysis works in his gallery! Texturey, wispy and with some surprising elements! And I love his titles!

:iconmarsille: Everyone knows ~Ann-McLaren one of the kindest and sweetest persons on DA. And her gallery reflects her personality

****Contest****Lovely Souls!
Finally, we are a SUPERGROUP!!!!!!

:squee::squee:
We are very glad!!!
And we want to thank the beautiful souls who have donated their points for this cause
:iconSrta-Kia: :icon25percent: :iconmoonstonemama: + Anonymous Deviants
:thanks: thank you so much!!! :thanks:
So NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW...
IT'S CONTEST TIME!!!!
Would you partecipate??
If yes, write a comment below this journal and if there are enough entries, we will start the project!
IT'S FORBIDDEN TO BE LAZY! :aww: LEAVE A COMMENT!:aww:
:blowkiss:
*Slairea & ~Grooveinjector

birthday feature*25percent was nice enough to get me a subscription for my birthday (so I can finally use this nifty cat journal layout) so in return I wanted to feature some of his beautiful works.

and my favorite one:

all credit goes to :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/25percent/140670579342672
Thank you so much Alain and everyone who sent birthday wishes my way, I feel so extremely blessed, having so many great people in my life is the greatest gift I could ask for.

edit:
Since people keep asking what I did for my birthday (and I don't have time to reply to everyone indiviually) thank all of you. I didn't do much for my birthday, the day before I went to a pick your own apple orchard with some of my boyfriends russian friends (and one who didn't speak english, that was fun because I usually don't like to speak russian with people I don't know and I ha

More Fantastic FeaturesMore thanks to people that have donated to my contest pool!
1) is Alain :icon25percent:

2) is Frantz :iconmonsieurwar:

3) is Ian :iconianmsquee:

4) is The Unknown :iconDerelictVampire:

3) is Tommy :iconTommy8250:

:thumb28

My TreeMy Tree
I've had a good bit of time to reflect on this from earlier this evening. Let me lay out the situation.
When I was born, my parents planted a pine tree in the backyard for me. It was a little thing. A pitiful thing. Really, truly, it was planted in the wrong place. In a garden area to the side of the backyard with not much room to grow. But there it was.
It was my tree. When I was young I liked to sit next to it and read. Nothing big enough for shade but it was my tree. I grew up. I watered it every day, even if it was just from an old sand bucket. Whenever I could. For years straight.
There came a time when it got too big for its little place and too top-heavy. It got crushed under a particular snowfall one year. It bent. It nearly broke. It couldn't support itself. But it was still growing out. Sideways, slantways...whatever could get it a bit of light through the heavy cover of the fruitless mulberry that towered above. It's often sickly. It doesn't even have pines for a lon

APOPHYSISWe are going to have special features (from time to time)about the different software programs that we all use to make our fractal image art. This first one centers around the very popular program APOPHYSIS.
Apophysis is an open source fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows.
Apophysis has many features for creating and editing fractal flames, including an editor which allows one to directly edit the transforms by manipulating triangles, a mutations window, which applies random edits to the triangles, an adjust window, which allows the adjustment of coloring and location of the image, and even a scripting language with direct access to most of the components of the fractal, which allows for effects such as the animations seen in Electric Sheep, which are also fractal flames. Users can export fractal flames to other fractal flame rendering programs, such as FLAM3.Scott Draves invented Fractal Flames and published an open source implementation written in C in t

Just so you know.....i eat, breathe, and sleep deviantart.....this is my home and i love it here.....i am not "in" it for the money(wait there is money involved?) or the power (power?

what?) i love the fractal community, as much as, if not more than, some of my REAL family....if you know me, you know this to be true....if you take the time to get to know me you will find me loyal, passionate, kind, and fair...i am not here to "hook" up with anyone....not here "looking" for a date...if you have an issue with me please please please note me or tab me in chat and we can discuss it....if you have questions i am pretty much an open book....
so that's all i wanted to say and now i feel much better.....

that's my story...what's yours?

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Freeware List of Free Fractal Program
Includes links for: Mandlebrot 1.5, Fractal Explorer 2.0+, Mandlebrot Explorer 3.0, JAME 6.0+, PixelPlay 1.0, Sterling(ware)2 1.7, Mandlebrot Set Plotter 3.0, endlos 1.0, XaoS 3.1, Sierpinski Fractal 1.1, ChaosPro 3.1

Apophysis 7X
Apophysis Program made for Windows 7 by `XyrusWorx Updated as of November 2012

Ultra Fractal - A fractal rendering program. There are many tutorials available on the site and on DA. Updated 2011.

Polyfractalisation - Inside the Mind of an Apophysisist. Great Tips and tutorials by ~IDeviant

Agony - A fractal Program by ~kelbv Updated 27 February 2011

Flam4 - A fractal flame renderer. Version 0.87 as of 18 August 2010

Incendia - by *Aexion, A 3D Multiprocessor Fractal Engine
There is also a Chat room for information here [link]
There is also an Incendia Material Tutorial page here [link]
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Apophysis 2.09 JK
By Jed Kelsey ~Lu-Kout. Updated 1 November 2009

All Apophysis files

Apophysis Z+ - last updated 3 July 2007

Apophysis Plugins Project
The latest official release of the plugin pack from the Apophysis Plugins Project. Updated 11 August 2008

ApoMac.
Free and easy to use Apophysis Launcher for Mac. Updated January 9, 2009.

Claire Jones' Apophysis Resource Center
A large resource center operated by `ClaireJones.

Amazing Seattle Fractals!
Contains various content, including introductory tutorials (using Tierazon), and a tutorial for XenoDream.

The KnotPlot Site - mathematical Fractal knots, program last updated 15 February 2012

Apophysis Wiki

Electric Sheep - For those who make Apophysis flames for Electric Sheep

Fr0st
A fractal rendering program by Vitor Bosshard, the site includes the stable version and the beta versions. Verison 1.4 as of 14 May 2011

Colour Lovers - Great place for finding gradients.

Ultra Fractal Courses by Janet Parke

Mystic Fractal
Mystic Fractal features powerful yet easy to use fractal generators with all the options you need to create intriguing high-resolution images, artwork and 3D models.
Site updated as of 14 October 2012. For information on which OS can be used click the the 'Programs' link on the site.

Fractal Explorer
An application that represents a fractal generator that will produce mysterious and beautiful mathematically-based images. Version: FE 0.9 Beta for Windows 7.

GNU XaoS
An interactive fractal zoomer. It allows the user to continuously to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. Linux, Mac, and Windows-friendly! Version 3.5

Apophysis Glossary - A glossary of terms found within Apophysis
Updated 26 October 2011

Fractal Science Kit is a Windows program to generate a mathematical object called a fractal. Has a free 30-day free trial, otherwise it's $29.95 for the program. Updated 17 Dec 2012. Version 1.22

Fractalia: An online fractal generator by Ladi. You can choose between Mandelbrot and Julia.

The Fractal Microscope: An online fractal generator. The site has a nifty 'how-to' for the generator.

The Julia Sets is an online julia generator. The page shows you how to use the generator.

Mandelbrot Explorer is an easy online Mandelbrot fractal generator that zooms into the fractal.

Julia and Mandelbrot Set Explorer is another Mandelbrot and Julia fractal generator, it hasn't been updated in long time.

*TaraRoys' Basic Apophysis Tutorials

Qosmic - A cosmic recursive fractal flame editor. Great for those who work with Electric Sheep! Updated October 2011

Visual Arts Academy - hosts Apophysis classes. This costs $25 per course and begins the first of every other month, runs two months (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr,May/Jun, Jul/Aug, Sep/Oct). The Nov/Dec course is $40. For more information ask `Platinus.

Oxidizer - a free open source fractal flame editor for the Apple Macintosh, running OSX 10.4 or greater. Verison 0.8.1 as of 3 July 2011

JWildfire - An java-based imaging program by Andrea Maschke. Updated as of 20 March 2013

Fractal Flame Editor T.I.N.A - T.I.N.A. is a fractal flame generator inspired by flam3 and Apophysis directly integrated into JWildfire. To download, just download JWildfire...the link is on the right-hand side of the JWildfire page.

Chaotica Fractals - The download page for the latest Chaotica flame renderer

Fragmentarium - an open source, cross-platform IDE for exploring pixel based graphics on the GPU. Windows Vista/7 Update as of 1 April 2012 for Windows and Mac as of 9 Sep 2012. Where to find Fragmentarium scripts: [link]

Fractal Forums - A forum where you can learn and talk about fractals.

My Flame.at - New project from `XyrusWorx. "It works like PasteBin - paste an Apophysis-fractal into the box and you will have a short link to the fractal in the top right corner to give your friends so they can grab the flame you shared." More information can be found: [link]. Updated as of 11 February 2012.

Mandelbul3D - version 1.8.2, updated 23 July 2012

yFract - a software for creating puristic fractal art. Version 1.1.5 as of 5 Jul 2012

Saturn & Titan - Fractal-rendering software by Mark Eggleston. Versions: 2.1.2 for Linux & 2.1.3 for Windows 7. Updated as 7 Jan 2012.

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=Lion6255 Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

The link for Wildfires web site is still correct however the date/Version is wrong.The newest version was just released Wednesday March 20th 2013. The facebook pages is the most active group for parms and updates [link]. Thanks for this wonderful list!

=deadened-glow Mar 23, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! I'll get that fixed!

*wolfepaw Dec 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Fabulous list of goodies! Thank you so much for compiling this and sharing it with the community. There are some very interesting programs there. I may have to try a few of the new ones out.

*catelee2u Dec 14, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks!

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Thank you so much!

=kersee9 Jun 22, 2012 Professional Writer

I'm finding a lot of outdated programs and tutorials. The downloads don't work or it says the program is expired, etc. Are there any good Julian tutorials for 7x or better yet--2.09JK? I'm a novice.

=deadened-glow Jun 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Ah yes, I need to go through the links again. This is why I post the off-site resource journal from time-to-time, people point out which links do not work.

~apomaker Jun 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wonderful work thank you so much for sharing all this wealth of info!!!

=DsyneGrafix Jun 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Excellent Resource! Thanks for all the hard work to put this together!

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THX!!!

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