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time to time people ask me how I make fractals. Whenever
I give presentations on fractals, the audience almost expects
me to produce a fantastic work of art on the spot. Well, it's
just not that easy. I wanted to put together a simple
presentation of what really goes on in the fractal creation
process.
What follows is a peek into that process. I didn't know when
I started whether I was going to produce anything good; for
a while it looked like I wouldn't. I've included all of the
steps I took that I could record. That means all of the dead
ends, the mistakes, and the happy accidents. I wrote these
notes the day after creating the image, so the thought process
was still fresh on my mind, but I wrote with the advantage of
hindsight.
This is not a step-by-step tutorial, in the sense that you
can follow it as a recipe for building your own fractals just
like this one. You could do that, if you had Ultra Fractal 3
and all the parameters, but that's not the point here, which
is why the parameters aren't available. The point is to show
you some of the thought process, the work, the experimentation,
and the determined path, all of which play a part in the fractal
creation process. And in this write-up, you get to see all of
the steps in rapid succession; because the formulas used are
all very slow, this took many hours of work to do, in one long,
marathon session.
Ready? Choose from the fully
annotated version or the animated
slideshow.
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