I'm rendering a flame in apophysis and the final result looks nothing like what I made.
I tweaked a rings2/julian fractal by offsetting the post transforms. I'd just made one without the offsets the day before and it worked fine. This is what I'm dealing with:
what it should look like
http://i.imgur.com/V2zW34o.jpghow it renders
http://i.imgur.com/ir5puOL.jpgI had some problems with this regarding a different fractal before, I tweaked it a little and it came out ok. But I really like this one and don't want to change it at all.
flame params if you're interested:
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