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I found excelent plugin Fractalius. Look, this image before:

(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9800/21122008101054argb.png)

end this is after Fractalius:

(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/129/21122008101054argb.jpg)

I made other images in Fractal Explorer with Fractalius:

(http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1962/17062009103600.jpg)
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4295/21122008101054.jpg)
(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1013/21122008095904.jpg)

P.S. Sorry, how i can made normal image's size?

One image made with help of Lacquer plugin.

ahh, it's all becoming clear now... it's due to the misnaming of this plugin that (other) people think the images it produces are fractal! there are quite a few mis-categorised images like this on deviantart and elsewhere (a friend happened to show me one just seconds before i saw this thread, weird synchronicity); and one can understand the confusion - the naming for one thing, and aren't all shiny glowy swirly images fractals? </sarcasm>

the technique employed is called line integral convolution (http://www.zhanpingliu.org/Research/FlowVis/LIC/LIC.htm), and it sure does look good when applied to fractals (however it will tend to mask the details of self-similarity).

I don't see the point of blurring an image hiding the details, even if it's sophisticated blurring :)

so, THAT's how they are created.... Always wondered about those glowing animals on dA lol...

thank you.

I don't see how lic can be employed here.

But you are employing it! That's exactly what the "Fractalius" plugin does :)

I see "radial flares" in fft from fractalius. Wat it mean?

(http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz97/BeastOfQuaternion/fft.jpg)

lycium, I have seen sin, cos, sqrt and exp functions in disassemble. These functions is not needed for lic.

Your own images above should serve as examples, no?

Sure they are: you get the angle along which to perform LIC from the gradient of the luminance, using this you can construct normalised sampling vectors (using sin/cos/sqrt) and do the weighting along those "rays" using a Gaussian falloff function exp(-(k * dist)^2).

It's not absolutely essential to use sin/cos/sqrt/exp, but their use for LIC can easily be explained as above.

Have you implemented LIC before? I can give simple pseudocode, maybe 10-20 lines, that would produce near identical images to what's produced by Fractalius.

yes please.

I'm at work right now, will post it tonight :)

please.

sampled met exp, layered.

do sobel in sobel;
from sincos(sobel; +random(angel)) do line.blur.length.fn(hermite from intensity) in double accumulator; //re gauss rotate and ...
perform expmap in layers:

I see new easy interpretor for Apophysis en new, for my, syntaxes for programing language 

en for Ultrafractal without variables.

it can be:

do ifs.3d.in.expmap from dist(x, y, z with from center/previous/modulated from wav/

I have interesting results with my version but this is not  wat i will. please give me you version.

This is wat  a get now.

(http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz97/BeastOfQuaternion/ttt-1.jpg)

I get same contours as in Fractalius!

(http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz97/BeastOfQuaternion/zzz5.png)

like fracal

this is simple lic. now i only need make lines with width.

Interesting textures. The use of this technique is in describing those areas that are around a precise line or curve in a generalised or root mean square way. Thus for a vortex whirlwind the eddy flows would give precise lines but the surrounding dust particles would describe a more "blurred" path. It would be interesting to see the effect on navier stoke type equations and intense spiral images in 3d.

I do not mind that it is not "fractal" because it looks "rough" to me! :-*

Some of these images remind me of Stephen Hawkings representation of the quantum worm hole field,and for that i thank you.

Fractal this or not i don't know, but this help to see fractals. I made this simple, result of sobel i connect with lines. 

If I make lines with width -> I get Fractalius.

Have you managed to get desired results?