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Welcome to The Spring 2009 Fractal Art Competition, held by UltraFractalWiki and FractalForums!

Deadline: 1st of May 2009

Gallery Link: http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=30

Competitions:


All images are limited to 1280 pixels on their longest dimension.
Banner images should be 105 pixels in height, and any width up to 1280 pixels.
Images in the 2D and 3D categories can be up to 1280x1280 pixels,
but must not be longer than 1280 pixels in either dimension


General Rules:

    * Each image has to be uploaded to the apropriate fractalforums.com gallery section
    * use whatever tool you like
    * deadline is 1st of May
    * the voting system of the fractalforums.com Gallery is used to determine wich image wins
    * after the deadline the voting period begins and ends on 1st of June
    * Post Processing is explicitly allowed!
    * The winner in each section gets a coffe mug with the corresponding image on it,
      printed through the deviantart shop. and the receiver has to post a picture with the coffe mug
    * The Numbers of entries are limited to 3 per user and Competition, this means one user can upload up to 9 images to the contest!
    * The entry has to be made especially for this contest, modifications of existing images are allowed, but be creative and start something new!

Competition Rules:

UltrafractalWiki and Fractalforums.com Artwork

This is the "wild" competition. "Wild" in this case means anything is allowed, photography, paintings, buildings and so on.
Some examples for possible entries:
 - a simple color palette or gradient
 - a coffe mug
 - a fractalforums or ultrafractalwiki logo
 - fractalforums.com banner logo (animated)
 - a smiley to be used in the forum
 - more smileys to be used in the forum
 - a template set for simplemachines forum ( :D )
 - anything else....

2D Art Competition

The 2D Art competition is the classic fractal art sections, the classic Mandelbrot set is a mapping of
the 2Dimensional Complex plane, most of us know those kind of fractals, so dive deep in
to the elephant valley (http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Square_Midget_Tutorial#Elephant_Valley_Example) pick a nice spot and gradient to create an amazing image:

Some starter points for 2D image creation with ultrafractal

http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Category:Midget_example
http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Examples_by_Image_Index

3D Art Competition

http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/3D_Image_Examples
http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Lighting_Examples


Some example programs:

http://www.incendia.net/ - a 3d fractal engine
http://web.mac.com/dchampney/Site/FractalWorks.html - a Macintosh 3d Fractal Renderer

So, have fun and start producing
 O0

if you have tips&tricks or tutorials to share, tell us!

Tips from David Makin @thank you! O0
The most up-to-date tutorials for Ultra Fractal 5 are on Ron Barnett's site here:

For Ron's formulas: http://www.hiddendimension.com/Tutorials_Main.html
For the new UF5 features: http://www.hiddendimension.com/challenges/UF5Challenges.html

For those who want to have a go at 3D IFS fractals in Ultra Fractal then there's some help for my 3D IFS formula in mmf4.ufm here:

http://www.fractalgallery.co.uk/ultrafractal-3d-ifs.html

There's also the older UF list challenges and other resources here:

http://www.parkenet.org/jp/ufresources.html

In addition there are resources and links to resources in the various fractal groups on the deviantArt site:

http://deviousfractals.deviantart.com/
http://fractaldreams.deviantart.com/
http://fractalmanipulations.deviantart.com/
http://imagersfractaldds.deviantart.com/
http://ultra-fractal.deviantart.com/
http://apophysis.deviantart.com/
http://fractal-resources.deviantart.com/
http://marbliciousfractals.deviantart.com/

For anyone wanting to know more on the basics of IFS for use with either Apophysis, Xenodream or Ultra Fractal then I recommend learning some of the background maths from here:

http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/

Also for the basics on IFS and other fractals:

http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/index.html

I just looked at the postings under the "2D Art" and "3D Art" sections, where there are three images from "Dinkydau" in each section.

The images are really around 250px × 187px in size, but they are being expanded in the posting to much larger, which makes them blurry and pixelated.  Any reasoning behind this ??

I can understand shrinking larger images down to a standard dimension for viewing purposes, but enlarging smaller ones should not be happening.

i have corrected that, it was meant to display the images as thumbnails, but somehow the gallery behaved wrong...

 :police: @dinkiday, you can delete your images and re-upload them to get them featured in high quality in the board

Thank´s for Info Trifox and work around here.

You gave around still 2 month time & I will think around :-)))
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There was not so much time for * PC activities * the last time, whenever I tried to follow * FF *

I saw wonderful Fractals and enjoyed too a wonderful * Come Back * -

Paul N. Lee, it´s great , that you take part again :-)))

Margit

Thank you for saying so.  Glad to see you are still active in this Forum.    :)

I had been extremely busy over the past 15 months, and had little time for the various fractal communities around the Internet.  (It takes a lot of time and effort to make $85K in that amount of time.)

Anyway, I am back for the moment.

Forgive me if this has been answered.  Does a fractal have to be made with UF?  What happens to the copyrights and ownership of that fractal?  Does it remain with the creator of the uploaded image(s)?  Or are they surrendered to someone else?

Hope Trifox doesn't mind me replying ...

No you don't need to use UF, you can use any fractal software, or presumably create a "real world" fractal and submit a photo of it (I mean a fractal object you've created not a picture of lungs or fractal brocolli etc.)
Apologies if my suggestions for reference materials/tutorials etc. was a little UF biased but I honestly don't know where to find the same sort of resources for say Fractal Explorer.
Note that the group sites on deviantArt do include stuff relating to other software - at least Apophysis, Xenodream and Incendia anyway.

Copyright always remains with the original artist.

Depends on who is doing the judging, and whether you wish to win.  (Statement based on other fractal competitions, not necessarily ones held here).    :evil1:


You will have the same copyrights and ownership anybody in the world currently has when an image is made available to the public.     :D

UF is NOT required!

I'm not as active as I used to be... but amazingly I am still around :-)
I know if someone is organizing a competion, it is nice if there are a lot competetors, so, I will upload later something for the competition.

Nice to see you are still around and with us.


Will be looking forward to your submission.   :)

for the wild competition... does it have be fractalrelated or could it be a drawing from one of my cats?

the wild competition is for "UltrafractalWIki and Fratalforums.com" artwork, so if you have a picture of
your cat, and put a fractalforums.com logo on it it can compete :D

it certainly does not need to have fractal content ! especially no digital fractal art content!

I just posted an entry, but I put it in the Compo Gallery!
Do I need to move it to 2D or 3D Art?  The piece was
done in Incendia...

Arrrgh!

Thinking both my pieces belong in 3D now...can I move them?  Not sure how!

Really not trying to flood.

Just wanted to say I found the 'delete' function, and now they are where they should be.

@hypnogems thank you for your entries!
i will move one if i find y wrong placed one!

hehe, but i see you managed it by yourself :D

 O0 O0 O0

You're very welcome! I'm unsure of myself where compos are concerned as a rule but it's all in fun, yes?
I just hope you finish developing Mutatorkammer; I'm dying to try it once you get a stable version. ;)

>Dear GFWorld,
The Fractalforums and UltrafractalWiki Spring 2009 Fractal Art Competition has
entered the voting state. the Fractalforums.com team would like to invite you to review the entries ...
:-)))

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When I took time for rating now , I really liked a lot of great work .
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Something else came in my mind again, so I would like to make an individual Rating now here:

5 Points from 5 for Trifox, keeping a great idea, with a lot of work & engagement alive ! :-)))

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Forgive me Christian & I really liked to do this now :-)))))
Margit

 ;)  :)  ;)

Hello, Trifox, et. al...

It's been over a month since the beginning of the vote was announced; was wondering if
there's been any progress on the judging?  I'm making bets with myself that I know who
is going to win in each category, and need to know if I'm right or not! ;)

hi there,

the final results will be published a 0:00h this night, or at 1st of june 2009

i am preparing a info page with lots of information about the contest entries

just stay tooned :D

greets

I was right!

I said titia to sweep; now the only problem is how to pay myself off..lol!

Congratulations to winners and the adminstrator
Well done!!!