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=30Competitions:
2D Art
3D Art
UltrafractalWiki and FractalForums.com Artwork
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 ArtworkThis 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 (
)
- anything else....
2D Art CompetitionThe 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 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_examplehttp://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Examples_by_Image_Index3D Art Competitionhttp://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/3D_Image_Exampleshttp://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Lighting_ExamplesSome 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
if you have tips&tricks or tutorials to share, tell us!
Tips from David Makin @thank you! 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.htmlFor the new UF5 features:
http://www.hiddendimension.com/challenges/UF5Challenges.htmlFor 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.htmlThere's also the older UF list challenges and other resources here:
http://www.parkenet.org/jp/ufresources.htmlIn 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