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Ultra FractalThis is one of my homework assignments from Working With Ultra Fractal with Janet Parke. We had to use the Rose Range Lite coloring formula in lkm.ucl
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I have featured this beautiful artwork here [link] If this represents a problem for you, please note me.
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One or more of your spirals is swirling in my journal
have a 'swirly' look 
ps. and play the quotes game
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I love the clarity, smoothness and the gorgeous tonal range. A most beautiful homework!
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Thanks so much for the compliment!
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How the heck did I miss this?!?!?!?! :eyepop:
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Good lord, woman, you're on a rampage of faving!
Thanks for the eye-pop, the jaw-drop and the fav!
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You're welcome. I jsut realized that I ahve to start at the bottom of the pile of comments and go in order.
And who can blame me for going on a rampage? you are offically my favorite artist on devart.
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Thanks muchly for the comment and the fav! It's appreciated
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I missed this one, Kat, and it's very beautiful!
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Thanks for the look and the nice comment!
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Very nice black and white 
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Thanks very much! I appreciate the look and the comment.
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Just love the limited tonality of this piece, set off nicely with the RRL coloring. Kerry Mitchell would be proud! As I'm sure Janet was.
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Thank you very much for the wonderful compliments on this piece! I appreciate you taking a look.
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I really like your homework very much, hon, especially because I'm always in trouble with these f....RRL OCA. I think it's a great OCA but I've always difficulties to do such beautiful shapes as you have done with it. And the way you've used the B&W gradient is stunning, it's so smooth and 3D-like.
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Thanks for the wonderfully nice comment and the fav!
It took me a while to get more comfortable with RRL, too. Now I can see the possibilities and have worked with it even when I didn't have to...just to show it who's the boss!
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Yeah, this is the right attitude hon...I guess these OCA need it....hahaha....maybe I should take a whip the next time if I try to work with it....
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dang...I guess you know me too well....hahaha
actually it should be in opposite....lol
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Nah, you just have to beat it into submission.
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This is so 3D and a must see full view -- Oh yea thos classes soud good I might have to save up a few bucks and take one or two 
Oh yea -- now that I'm the proud owner of UF 4.03 
(thanks to you of course -- it was a cheep and very good buy)
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You bought UF!
It was a heck of a good deal, wasn't it? It was cheaper than the regular version, so even if you never use the animation feature, you're still ahead.
Oh yeah...thanks for the look and the comment!
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You are most welcome!!
And thank you for the heads up on that fantastic buy -- this is truly a more complicated program than even the sample begins to show -- as far as the animation goes I doubt that I will mess with it, might try the tuts but that will be about it I think
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I think it's interesting that when Apo users see all the possibilities in UF, all the buttons and parameter settings, the hundreds of fractal and coloring formulae, the layering potential, etc, they all go "Whoa!" It's true that it's complicated but it's also very rewarding when you start to figure it out. I love the silly thing.
Just go slow and do the tuts. It'll make sense after a little while. When you get your first good image, the feeling is great!
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[B]Just go slow and do the tuts.[/B]
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That wont be much of a problem and I gunna need lots of tutorials to get me going with this 
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[B] It'll make sense after a little while. [/B]
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Me thinks it will be a lot longer than a little while
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[B]When you get your first good image[/B]
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Be a while for that one too as there is boo koo stuff to learn in this program 
Oh -- is there some place to go on line to find other parameters to mess with other than what is built in to UF? I mean they are ok n all but most seem boring to even try changing -- not that I'm an expert in this short of time for sure hehehe
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These are just a few of the images I've made from Phoenix Julia in the standard folder:
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It's all about the coloring and the coloring formula. One formula can look very different depending on what you do to it.
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I remember those and even fav'd a few but remember Iβm not much of a fan of spiral type fractals 
I'll work it out though there's always new finds out on the big WW Web
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You're only looking in the standard folder. Sweetie, go into the public folder! There are hundreds of formulas in there! Coloring formulas, fractal formulas...it's amazing. Also, under 'options' there's a place to update your public formulas. Start with the full collection and then update weekly.
BTW...until you add colors and try changing parameters, everything looks boring. Zoom in, zoom out, rotate, rotate some more. I mean zoom in really far on some of them. In the standard folder, there's a formula called Phoenix Julia. Look at what it appears to be and then go into my gallery and look at what I've made from just that one simple formula! I could play with that formula for months and never ever get bored.
Also, you really really need to do the built-in tutorials. Please trust me on this one thing.
Also, take your time. Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say. I've been using this program for over 18 months and just now am starting to think I might know a little tiny bit about what it can do.
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I've checked the public folder and it is empty -- nut'n there
I went to [link] and loaded up The full collection of formulas but what I viewed so far seems to be repetitive except for coloring and some very minor alterations on the base formula. So not to impressed with that
Did the built in tut twice and then did the 2 renders you see here β just added a layer or 2 and a mask on the Light one then messed with the gradients till I liked what I saw and rendered em up. Very simple stuff indeed but interesting to see what a little change in just color can do
I'll check out the options next time I open the program K
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Roger, there should be literally hundreds of formulas in that folder. You don't have to go anywhere to upload, either, you just click and it's done for you. They aren't repetitive, they're so different it's mind-boggling.
The big round shape you keep seeing is a Mandlebrot and it's mainly in the edges of the shape that all the differences happen. Every formula author who has a Mandlebrot formula changed that Mandlebrot in some way. Just because the far picture looks similar doesn't mean a thing. Zoom in on the edges of the shape where one circle meets another. The most interesting places are the neck where the biggest circle meets the next biggest one and also in the tail end around the edges.
You're going to have to learn what the three main fractal shapes are: Julia, Newton and Mandlebrot. They're all very different and what you do with them depends on so many things. Seeing the same shape only means that the author started with that fractal shape, not that every time you see it it's the exact same thing. Each and every one is different.
The whole tutorial is huge, too. There are so many things in there it's amazing. For instance, every Mandlebrot is also a Julia. You have to read the tut to find out how to switch from one to another in the exact same formula. I often start with a Mandlebrot and do the switch mode to find a great spot to play with.
You're getting impatient with the program but you need to understand how the whole thing works and what the different formulas do. You think you're seeing the same thing over and over again when you're actually seeing differences you just haven't firgured out yet. When you figure it out, you'll be much more impressed.
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That is the most awesome explanation I've seen/read -- THANK you Kat you added a ton of things to my experimenting!!
Oh there still isn't anything in the public folder and I did the update it updated everything to the stuff I downloaded from the fractal site so I do have the stuff that is supposed to be in the public folder -- it just isn't where it is supposed to be
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Roger, please don't apologize. This is a whole new ball game and you just don't know the rules yet. Hell, I don't know all the rules yet, either.
I'm going to suggest something that you may not want to do, but in the long run it will help immensely. If the public formulas aren't where they're supposed to be, I'd uninstall and do a clean install of the program. Update the formula collection again, this time from the program itself rather than from the website and it'll go to the default location. You're at the very beginning of your explorations, so you're not going to lose anything.
The reason I showed you the Julias I've made isn't to show you spiral after spiral, it's to show you how different coloring formulas can change the whole fractal. There are lots of things that aren't spirals and if you go to different places on a spiral, it's no longer a spiral anyway. I make spirals because I happen to love them like crazy, but that's just a personal preference.
Another thing is that you have to know where to apply the coloring formulas. When you see a black area in a fractal formula preview, thatβs an inside area. In order to see whatβs going on in there, you need to apply a coloring formula to the inside tab. The blue areas in the previews are outside areas and the coloring formulas need to be applied to the outside tab. You can apply the same formula to both areas (most of the time; sometimes there arenβt identical inside/outside formulas) or you can change them and see what happens. When it comes to the Mandelbrot formulas, sometimes itβs helpful to apply an inside formula at a distance just to see whatβs going to happen and then zoom in and check out the edges or wherever you want to go next.
I don't want you to get discouraged so soon after starting to use this program. You're going to have to trust me about the differences in the formulas because you can't see them yet. I still get overwhelmed when I go to make something new because there are so many choices.
I was worried that you were going to be pissed at me for telling you so much and asking you to trust me. The program isn't worth losing you as a friend.
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"I was worried that you were going to be pissed at me for telling you so much and asking you to trust me. The program isn't worth losing you as a friend."
Hey -- no worries!!!
I soak up info like what you gave me like a sponge about this program. Any thing you have to offer I will listen too -- without a doubt
So you are just gunna be stuck with me as a friend 
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I was thinking about one more thing: in both the formula tab and the coloring tabs there are usually parameters for you to play with and change. Play with them and see what happens. The same fractal formula and coloring formula can change dramatically based on the settings. Again, use the explore tool if possible. The bottom line is to have as much fun as possible, but even so, there will be times you'll want to beat the program over the head with a rock. Really really hard. Over and over again.
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"there will be times you'll want to beat the program over the head with a rock. Really really hard. Over and over again."
I think that it might be a while before I make it that far hehehe
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