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Published: 2006-11-13 18:23:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 704; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 2
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I like the combination of the flood mapping parameter and the orb formula.
ChaosPro can be difficult and frustrating to use, but it's got some very good qualities, too.
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Now this one is sweet!! Kinda reminded me of a marble and how the light can shine off it in the sun 
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Thank you, thank you. I really appreciate the compliments. It's sort like a cats-eye marble, in a way.
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Uh, eyepopping image! The different graphical elements work very well together and are nicely composed; even flood becomes an equal part of the composition- good work!
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Thank you so much for the very nice compliment and critique. That fractal (the ball and reflective background) looked surprisingly good when I used the flood transform with it; it's just a totally improbable image, but I like its weirdness.
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Thanks! This was another one of those weird fractals that doesn't really look like a fractal. I thought it was kind of cute!
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Thanks! I love it when fractals look like something in real life.
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Thank you very much!
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Wow...this is really dramatic in full view - which is a must with this one....there are just some images where the thumb does not even beging to hint at what's inside! The orb almost reminds me of an all-seeing "eye" and I love the reflections and colors...wonderful! 
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Thank you so much, Anita. A few other people have noticed that eye in there, and I saw it too. It's amazing what a combination of fractal formulas, mapping transforms, and coloring methods can do! I just stumbled on this one, like I stumble on all of them, but I think this one has "legs," as they say in journalism. I'm thinking of different things I can do with these elements!
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"Legs" it does have! Dn't you love it when that happens! That's what happened with "Diamond Starlight"......I was playing around with a random parameter, made some changes and all of a sudden the stars popped in! I was so surprised! 
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I LOVE those surprises, and it's why I keep plugging away with ChaosPro! That's what I live for!
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Thank you very much. The fractal formula and the mapping transform were just amazing discoveries for me. It was like finding a nice Christmas present! I'm glad you like it.
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beautiful work Jean---I really like this---so colorful---but the composition is so cool too
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Thank you very much for the compliment.
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ur welcome---you are so very good at it.
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Very, very nice, Jean 
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Thank you, Smokey. I'm glad you like this one.
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Like the colors you are using and that "flood" effect
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I love that flood transform...it works with all of the fractal formulas. I am going to try a few other things and see what happens with that.
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I believe you could make some stunning wall with that - it looks really nice
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Thank you very much. Fractals are so much fun to create, and full of surprises, as this one was.
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I think it's great. I see an eye too.
Perhaps it would be even better if the background was softer (blurred) so that it would give a sense of depth.
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I agree with you about the background, but unfortunately, I couldn't get the fractal formula to cooperate! I must have experimented with about 50 different iterations of this same formula with changing parameters, but never got that soft background. If I were doing digital art by hand, I would make it look soft. Fractals certainly have limitations, esp. when you're an amateur like me!
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This is so gorgeous, Jean! You've really got the mapping transform down!
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Thanks, Jenn. I've got it down "sort of." I've tried so many experiments that fell on their faces! I never give up, because it's like pannng for gold...you never know what you might find in the next session. It's fun to get something interesting like this, though.
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You are absolutely right, Jean! Sometimes you just gotta keep on plugging away....
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Wow! I love the colors! the round ball looks like an eye there... with a little phantasy maybe, but I always like to see such things in pictures
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Thanks, Geschi. I see that eye, too. I was going to say something about it in the description, but decided to let people see what they want to. Glad you see it, too!
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Looks like something from Cirque Du Soleil well done
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You're very right about that, Nance. I couldn't think about why I named it what I did, but now that you mention Cirque, it makes sense. I've seen them use huge balls in their acts. They are quite wonderful.
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I'm addicted to their shows, I've seen them live five times
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I would LOVE to see them in person, but for now, I'll catch them on cable TV.
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I'm almost as addicted to them as I am waterfalls.
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I can totally believe that. They are just beyond amazing!
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Thank you, Lauren. Would you believe that's a Christmas-themed gradient I dreamed up? It's not at all Christmas-y, but it's interesting for a lot of other types of renders. Once in awhile, a goof turns out to be something nice after all! Glad you like.
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LOL ... that's so true !
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