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« on: January 19, 2008, 08:54:55 PM »

forgive me if someone has answered this but i just was wondering....

I use ultafractal to create my images and i wondered if anyone knows of a way to create a fractal using another image/photo with ultafractal (or any other software for that matter!) one example i found is this one of a mandelbrot set made out of tubs of smarties!!!!! any help would be invaluable thanks guys.
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2008, 11:08:28 PM »

I'm not sure abot the exact effect you posted in that picture, but some fun variations can be made with Mutatorkammer ( http://www.fractalmovies.com )



Here's the animation for that image:

<a href="http://i106.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/brollybrot2.flv" target="_blank">http://i106.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/brollybrot2.flv</a>


And of course Chaos Pro made this animation:

<a href="http://i106.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/yup.flv" target="_blank">http://i106.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/yup.flv</a>


Sensing a theme in my work?

I'm always looking for such programs too, so if anyone knows more, Post!
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 11:14:16 PM »

from the continuous escape time potential (together with the angle of the last iteration) you get a polar mapping (phi, theta), which gets interpreted as (u,v) in a texture map. that specific image you posted looks like it's comprised of two layers, a base (spiral) and then the alpha-textured mandelbrot over it.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 12:38:45 AM »

Hi, there are two utilities for bringing images into Ultrafractal:

"Bring it in" by Mark Hammond:
http://www.beautifulandes.com/bringitin.html

"Sprite" by Mark Townsend
http://www.fractaldimentia.com/sprite/index.html

Note that both programs import the images as formulas which can get very large so it's best to start with small images.
Also a tip to allowing import of larger images is to convert the image to less colours first (e.g. 256 or less) then back to full-colour mode before trying to import it into UF.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 12:20:38 PM »

wow thanks for the quick response guys and girls, your the best!!! i will look over the suggestions closer tonight and post any images i come up with!! once again thankyou  smiley smiley smiley smiley smiley smiley smiley
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 04:19:36 PM »

Using images as textures for traps gives you even more flexibility - plus you don't need to worry about image seams that can cause ugly discontinuity while tiling:

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 05:29:16 PM »

here is one i just made, and it couldnt have been easyer-thanks to you guys.   grin grin  thanks a million!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 12:01:28 PM »

Fun Stuff!

I'm having difficulty making either of the above programs work with Chaos Pro.  Chaos Pro can work with Ultra Fractal files.

I think it has to do with unfamiliarity with Ultra Fractal stuffs.

I got a ucl file, and imported it to Chaos Pro, but it doesn't work!

I'll keep trying and see if I can formulate a proper question to help me with this...

Meanwhile, if anyone has made this work, please let me know - just for encouragement!

EDIT:

Nevermind...



This is just going to lead to more of my own...  unique brand of Fractal Art.

Thanks!
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2008, 04:01:30 PM »

You really should have seen this coming...





And once that was made...

This was Inevitable!!!








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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2008, 03:09:02 PM »


Here's another animation that uses bitmap textures with fractals.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/d2afnLiNY8k&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/d2afnLiNY8k&rel=1</a>
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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2008, 04:40:24 PM »

And for completeness, here's an example of using images in flame fractals (IFS):

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« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2008, 03:54:57 PM »

How did you do this. Please share your workflow.
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« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2009, 10:39:23 PM »

Just to add to anyone who doesn't know - Ultra Fractal 5 has the facility to import images for use in fractals built-in.
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« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2009, 01:50:58 AM »

There are quite a few programs that have had this feature for many years.  Here are a few others that did not get mentioned:

  •  SpangFract for the MAC

  •  wmPhoto for Windows

  •  the GIMP with plugins

I even have the Visual Basic code to do this if anybody is interested (though it is now a bit old and dated from when I last played with it).
 
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« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 01:19:01 PM »

And for completeness, here's an example of using images in flame fractals (IFS):
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I love this! I never knew you could put pictures into flames!
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