Occasionally people ask what kind of software I use or what kind of process I follow to make these images.
It's a little difficult to answer that questions for much of my fractal work -- the reality is that I fiddle with this and muck with that and then I look at it and I say "maybe if I changed the background more to something like that stuff I did in that other picture but more in a direction of that or, wait, maybe I should put another inflection point there and, hey that looks cool; maybe with some of that scaly texture on it...." and in the end I get something I kinda like.
Really a lot more perspiration than inspiration.
At the core, all of my images tend to use one of the fractal engines out there -- Ultrafractal (for much of my older stuff), flam3, Apophysis, Chaoscope ... the basic shape you see usually comes from an equation. The rest boils down to choices from location in the fractal landscape through things like light and color
and shade to subtleties of composition and emphasis.
Then there's a bunch of self-created filters; mostly composed from the netpbm library, but I've also written the one or other ImageMagic-based tool. There is sometimes a certain amount of GIMP work that is put on top of it all.
Experimenting until I like it. A little math, a little art, a little idle play...
Now any one image in particular may adhere to this general description more-or-less closely. An image might, for example just simply come out of the fractal engine just perfectly the way I like it. That is rare, but happens. Luck. Or otherwise (much more often, I fear) I can spend days, sometimes weeks fiddling with some concept and never actually manage to get it where I'd like it to be.
Here is the link to his website!
It's a little difficult to answer that questions for much of my fractal work -- the reality is that I fiddle with this and muck with that and then I look at it and I say "maybe if I changed the background more to something like that stuff I did in that other picture but more in a direction of that or, wait, maybe I should put another inflection point there and, hey that looks cool; maybe with some of that scaly texture on it...." and in the end I get something I kinda like.
Really a lot more perspiration than inspiration.
At the core, all of my images tend to use one of the fractal engines out there -- Ultrafractal (for much of my older stuff), flam3, Apophysis, Chaoscope ... the basic shape you see usually comes from an equation. The rest boils down to choices from location in the fractal landscape through things like light and color
and shade to subtleties of composition and emphasis.Then there's a bunch of self-created filters; mostly composed from the netpbm library, but I've also written the one or other ImageMagic-based tool. There is sometimes a certain amount of GIMP work that is put on top of it all.
Experimenting until I like it. A little math, a little art, a little idle play...
Now any one image in particular may adhere to this general description more-or-less closely. An image might, for example just simply come out of the fractal engine just perfectly the way I like it. That is rare, but happens. Luck. Or otherwise (much more often, I fear) I can spend days, sometimes weeks fiddling with some concept and never actually manage to get it where I'd like it to be.
Here is the link to his website!
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