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these are the final results of the still frame competition 2014

index	thumbfilename	memberName	title	rating	totalratings	averageRating	views
1		taurus66	temple town - seaside entrance	179	41	4,3659	345
2		Zakar	"Cyclossa"	165	39	4,2308	248
3		Zakar	"Hive Mind"	163	38	4,2895	243
4		KRAFTWERK	Kaleidoscopic Fractal Virus - The Image	146	35	4,1714	198
5		haltenny	Eye Pods	145	32	4,5313	253
6		Zakar	"Node"	136	35	3,8857	188
7		MatzeR	Benesi Launcher	124	31	4,0000	170
8		KRAFTWERK	Rex Mathematicae - 3D printed Fractal Ring	114	28	4,0714	271
9		pulsar69	Trip to mandelworld	110	26	4,2308	241
10		biofreak	Dreamcatcher	110	27	4,0741	130
11		Syzygy	Self-organising Neurogenic Structure	110	28	3,9286	143
12		biofreak	copper	109	29	3,7586	152
13		Lux	The Ephemeral Surface	109	28	3,8929	214
14		MatzeR	wooden cyclops gnome explores a fractal forest	105	26	4,0385	201
15		GrahamSym	Array 94	101	25	4,0400	157
16		LAR2	Don't Open It	97	25	3,8800	136
17		Viking	Rise of the Androids	96	27	3,5556	134
18		Egress	Hardwired Transcendence Engine	92	24	3,8333	148
19		pulsar69	A tribute to M,C (Escher)	92	25	3,6800	185
20		Bfractalien	Rome 3012	92	25	3,6800	197
21		hapf	Elysium	92	23	4,0000	146
22		Egress	The Mechanics of Reason	90	22	4,0909	151
23		Dominique_Peronino	Chemical plant	90	23	3,9130	168
24		Transdimensional	Winter Wonderland	89	27	3,2963	113
25		chook3	That's No Moon	88	25	3,5200	159
26		KRAFTWERK	Kaleidoscopic Fractal Virus - The 3D Print	87	25	3,4800	205
27		hirnlaich	Granular Disintegration	86	25	3,4400	145
28		Dinkydau	S of S	86	26	3,3077	144
29		Tahyon	Filigrane Skull	85	22	3,8636	155
30		Transdimensional	Transdimensional Turnstile	84	24	3,5000	108
31		pulsar69	Mb3d Modern-art Muséum,	82	21	3,9048	138
32		Syzygy	Alien dreadnought	82	25	3,2800	165
33		trafassel	The Tragic Story of the Bulb	81	24	3,3750	154
34		Vega	Fractal font 'Sierpinski carpet'	81	23	3,5217	162
35		shtohl	ALIEN SPACEPORT	80	24	3,3333	163
36		Transdimensional	Abruptly Ruptured Reality	80	25	3,2000	122
37		biofreak	Origami	79	25	3,1600	136
38		rahulmukerji	Incubation Chamber	77	23	3,3478	90
39		Aqualoop	Roots	77	24	3,2083	101
40		Pauldelbrot	Chromodynamic Storm	76	22	3,4545	136
41		Tabasco Raremaster	Spring Time	76	24	3,1667	127
42		Tahyon	Sci-fi Skull	75	19	3,9474	107
43		chook3	Scrutiny	73	21	3,4762	129
44		thargor6	The forge	73	23	3,1739	120
45		Aqualoop	oKtA	73	21	3,4762	106
46		Tabasco Raremaster	Color-glass condensate in Quark–gluon plasma	72	22	3,2727	158
47		trafassel	Vortex	71	21	3,3810	113
48		thargor6	Sparkle (HDR)	71	23	3,0870	95
49		Viking	Alien Mall	70	19	3,6842	136
50		joe	Helm	70	24	2,9167	125
51		schizo	Full Moon Valley	69	21	3,2857	137
52		rahulmukerji	Insubordination	69	22	3,1364	84
53		Bfractalien	Mahnattan Moonlight 1930	67	20	3,3500	113
54		wrshisak	Old and baroque heart	67	18	3,7222	114
55		leguen	Megaliths	66	20	3,3000	160
56		Tahyon	Skull	66	18	3,6667	100
57		trafassel	Spine at 75 Iterations	64	19	3,3684	147
58		hapf	Scheherazade	64	19	3,3684	85
59		sergioct	Alien techno-island	64	22	2,9091	99
60		Dinkydau	Parallel evolution	63	18	3,5000	95
61		element90	Curl Crunch	63	19	3,3158	92
62		thargor6	Time is going by	62	19	3,2632	117
63		Peter Wilkinson	Opuntia	61	19	3,2105	95
64		joe	IFS net mask	61	21	2,9048	101
65		schizo	The Rock	60	19	3,1579	98
66		Viking	Alien Jukebox	60	20	3,0000	123
67		Dinkydau	Plot	59	17	3,4706	86
68		Sockratease	Brotman	59	18	3,2778	197
69		Pauldelbrot	Forest on Hyades Alpha III	58	19	3,0526	89
70		Bfractalien	Fantastic forest	57	20	2,8500	117
71		Gregoryno6	Strange Telepathy	57	18	3,1667	115
72		sergioct	Plasma particle accelerator	57	19	3,0000	90
73		Phitek	Iv43-AtomicInfusion	57	23	2,4783	98
74		hapf	NeuralNet	56	18	3,1111	92
75		IamTheIceman	DigitalFlower	56	19	2,9474	79
76		thargor6	The darkness	55	19	2,8947	102
77		vah	the unseen	54	21	2,5714	125
78		arthurstammet	Organic Fractal	53	23	2,3043	97
79		schizo	Golden Teacher Shroomz	51	16	3,1875	109
80		pleasuretek	metalShop Machinist	51	19	2,6842	93
81		shtohl	SPIDER VALLEY	51	18	2,8333	129
82		mclarekin	Borderline - Meet My Mental State	51	17	3,0000	73
83		arthurstammet	Energy-Path	50	18	2,7778	82
84		arthurstammet	Harmless aquatic organism	50	21	2,3810	111
85		guruof7	Supreme leader	49	19	2,5789	91
86		element90	Almost Cubic Manifestations No, 1	49	18	2,7222	69
87		sergioct	Space launch	49	18	2,7222	89
88		shtohl	ALIEN CITY	48	19	2,5263	116
89		hirnlaich	blue alien	44	15	2,9333	92
90		IamTheIceman	Wild dreams	44	18	2,4444	77
91		element90	Variegated Bud	44	16	2,7500	80
92		IamTheIceman	Mother and Child	42	17	2,4706	73
93		Phitek	NewWaves - IV24	42	18	2,3333	89
94		rahulmukerji	Fractal Love	42	20	2,1000	73
95		wrshisak	Heart luminexFractal	41	15	2,7333	119
96		simon,snake	Core Values	41	15	2,7333	66
97		Pauldelbrot	Close Encounter	41	18	2,2778	92
98		asdklfjdf	3-fold symmetry	38	15	2,5333	77
99		hirnlaich	Who knows this guy?	37	15	2,4667	70
100		mfg	tilab scator jewel	37	16	2,3125	76
101		hgjf2	volumetrica_cake	35	17	2,0588	98
102		Peter Wilkinson	Imaginary Crag	35	15	2,3333	98
103		Peter Wilkinson	Julia's Legacy	34	17	2,0000	102
104		mfg	in the vicinity of zero	30	16	1,8750	77
105		hgjf2	bracelat	29	16	1,8125	78
106		mfg	loltun	29	16	1,8125	69
107		hgjf2	radiolaria_bunch	19	14	1,3571	88
108		hgjf2	radiolaria_beehive	0	0		9
109		hgjf2	palm_fractal	0	0		15

Congratulations to Torsten and Zakar.
Great images guys!!!
 

Congratulations to winners and to every participant !

right, i will see to take that into account, it is an open discussion, 2d/3d/film i would be perfectly fine with it, i like the idea of the "topics" like resemblance and axolotl, so we are going to look into it and see what we might come up with

We've done that several times.  We just didn't want to do it every year so we can have more variety.

We've done general 2D and Strictly Classic Mandelbrot categories.  Maybe a Julia Category or some other specific formula might be fun?  Or even give a specific location (not too deep) and see who can make the nicest coloring or mapping of it?  Feel free to offer ideas!

I'm pleased that there was such a high degree of participation this year!

Well done to everyone who entered!

And thank you for all your votes!

Onward. Ever Onward!

It's not the winning that matters, it's the taking part.

Thanks Simon and Caleidoscope 

I'd be glad to organize a monthly challenge section.  We can start with this one, and discuss / poll for the next one during the month this runs.

We'd need to also decide on a voting system to test  (see the general discussion thread for 2014 Results for a lively discussion of the merits and shortfalls of many possible systems of voting!).

Who can think of a decent location?  It should be reasonably easy on the processors so many people with different software and hardware all can play.  I'd say no deeper than whatever ChaosPro's deepest zoom is  (I forget that detail, but it's a good limit in my mind so 32 bit systems limited to freeware have a chance).

I can do that.  I'll run the concept past Christian and try to have a sub-board in the contest section for "Challenges" set up by the weekend. 

We can split this discussion or leave it and summarize in the new section