Title: Nobody seems to to do it quite like ... me Post by: panzerboy on November 02, 2010, 02:33:21 PM You can see examples of my mandelbrots here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/panzerboy/ I've stuck to plain vanilla escape-time mandelbrots, I guess because I haven't PERFECTED them yet :-) Usually I'll layer them up in Gimp to try and show the stripes and the larger structure. I haven't seen anyone else use my approach. A lot of my pics look dark and dull, I generate them to use as desktop backdrops on my PC so darker pix don't make it hard to find the icons. I also try to avoid the intense colours you see in the default palettes of many madelbrots programs, trying to get a 'organic' colour mix of greens, blues, browns and greys. That being said my method is serendipitous so the colours I end up seeing are often I suprise to me. A lot of my pics benefit from a full size inspection, often theres lots of intricate paterning to be seen at the max resolution. I recently wrote a little program in C to generate Fractal Extreme palette files from a text file. I generate the text file from a spreadsheet. This way I can precisely set values and set all 228 RGB index values + stripe indexes. So the text files has lines like Red index 0 value 0 index 1 value 0 index 2 value 36 index 3 value 36 ... index 226 value 255 index 227 value 255 Green index 0 value 0 index 1 value 36 ... Blue Stripe index 0 value 0 index 1 value 30 index 2 value 30 An example of what can be done with fractal extreme's palette is my picture 'Homicidal Fruit Salad' http://www.flickr.com/photos/panzerboy/5125669886/ If anyone is at all interested I could out it up on sourceforge or somewhere. I also have a program that reads a fractal extreme palette file (.fxp) and outputs the contents as text. Jeremy Thomson Title: Re: Nobody seems to to do it quite like ... me Post by: Sockratease on November 07, 2010, 05:28:04 PM Hello and Welcome to the forums! Don't worry about doing things differently around here - it's welcome and encouraged O0 I myself do a lot of work with Fractal Generators that use projection mapping of images to make Fractalized Images of The Woman I Love, so doing things differently is not a thing to worry about. I look forward to seeing your stuff in the galleries here. |