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Damn! D:
I always end up saying similar things in every comment but it's true! 
Really nice work, have to fav this one as well!
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The render is truly amazing... the colors sublime.
But, it's the texture that blows my mind! 
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Really beautiful and magical! May I ask, which program did you use to create this piece?
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Thanks for taking a look. I use Apophysis for all my fractal work
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My pleasure, I see! Then, I may hope to be as good as you with practice.
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It looks like I could touch it and feel the silky texture of it, beautiful.
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This is amazing!
Can ask you something? Is it knowledge of the math behind the variations or knowledge of different techniques that allow you to consistently make such awesome pieces?
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The main thing that i do is use variations so that the different patterns don't create overlapping messes, but rather 'fill each other in' - if you will. You can see the same basic thing taking place in many different styles:
Julia: a transform that stays in the centre, and a high weighted JuliaN on the outside. The JuliaN is low density at the centre, but copies the centred transform into beautiful patterns.
plastic: a transform that stays in the centre, and a high weighted Linear + Spherical that creates a hole in the centre, and fills everything else, copying the centred transform into swirling patterns.
Disc: a high powered JuliaN (or others) on the outside of a high weighted Disc transform in the centre, scaled down to keep it's own patterns from overlapping.
Tile: Linear transforms repeating other transforms set up to keep in specific small areas.
Most of what i do is nothing new. nothing different. The difference is that i do know the math, and can realize the potential of some variations, or can write a variation to keep shapes in specific areas to stop over lapping if i need something that is not available. My unreleased Bent2 variation was made with flames like this in mind. I didn't know what it would look like, but i knew what i needed to write to do it
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Sweet. Those are some awesome pointers! I'll have to go experiment now...
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Nice job. I like the mixture of the fluid-like circles and the sharp-edged (what to call them) curvy rectangles
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Quite nifty actually!
I like the gradient and the form is really nice.
And I like what you did with the blur!
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