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Phoenix-22 — Apo Tutorial - Color Symmetry
Published: 2007-04-20 23:59:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 20729; Favourites: 146; Downloads: 1772
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While not as intuitive as some of the fractal design tutorials, I found this to be a topic that is equally important, and one that desperately needed a tutorial.I know many of you are well-aware about this part of Apophysis, but there are a bunch of users, beginner's and experiences ones, that do have this happen to them. So, in light of that, and the lack of some "small topic" tutorials for Apophysis, here we are - a complete tutorial for beginner-to-intermediate users on what to deal with fractals with one color:
In a nice, compact 1.3 mb jpg file, for easy download.
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Beautifully written, easy to understand, and very helpful! Thank you!
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Featured within the "Project Educate - Epic World of Fractal Art" News Article [link] Thanks for sharing
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Great tutorial and you're good to put together something about a "minor" topic that could get one flustered. I encountered my first mono-colored one last week and was working with a loud gradient.
Huh 
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This was something I noticed a few years ago that there were so many little things about Apophysis that everyone has questions about, but are rarely addressed in tutorials. This was one of the things I was always asked and I hoped to do more tutorials to answer those questions every new user has, but...life happens. I'm sure there have been plenty of new tutorials since then and things like the Apo Beginner's Guide are good references.
Thanks for taking a look.
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Thanks for the tutorial^^ I will send you the link of my rainbowified fractal^^
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i dont have a symmetry textbox.
where your texbox is, mine says Opacity
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In Apo 2.09:
Editor window -> colors tab -> color speed
...I think, been a while since I've done fractals (sorry for the late reply)
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Definitely a 
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Great tutorial. I've often had problems with this. Thanks!!!
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Many thanks for this great tutorial, and now I know about colour speed too! You are very kind.
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Hi there, I have a question for you...
I have the most recent version of Apo, and I don't see a color symmetry section.... Is there a way to get it anyway?
If you could help me out. that'd be aweesooomeee.
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Yeah, they changed the name of it in the latest few versions. If you go to View > Editor > Colors > Color Speed, change 1 to 0 or 0 to 1 and it should do the trick.
Color Speed = Color Symmetry.
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Omfg, thank youuuuu so much! I'm not confused anymore! x3
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No problem, I'm glad it helped!
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Amaizing how something so simple can create so many changes.
Great tutorial.
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Color choices are so hard to make, since they can pick up different parts of a fractal.
Thanks for commenting!
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Thank you so much. This answered so many questions that I have. I have been looking for a tutorial this well done on this issue for a long time.
I can't wait to try it!
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You're welcome, I'm glad it helped!
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thx bud! this is what ive been woundering about!
great!
now i understand!
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Hey,
something is still not going like it should.
Please check: [link] (if you want to 
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Ge .... thank you. That's some very usefull information for me.
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Ah, thousands of thanks for this one; I had been wondering why my fractals were so lacking in color. Now I feel quite silly (so there is a colors-tab!), but anyways... Thanks!
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It didn't last night but I'll try again today.
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Let me know if you need help, I've actually learned a few new tricks after writing this tutorial.
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Thank you.
I managed to make something with different colours by creating each new transform a different one.
I didn't touch the symmetry figures. It didn't seem to work. But at each transform I slid the top ruler near the colour band and it set a different colour and number for each one.
Sorry. It's a bit confused. It's late here and I must sleep.
Thank you a lot.
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I got a bit of a 
I sort of understand what you mean though, you more or less changed the colors on the transforms manually.
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I've just done a flame from nothing with several linear transforms.
I put a different part of the gradient into each transform manually, as you say. So I got a multicoloured flame. Only the colours were like bars across the flame.
Then after tweaking it a lot, I tried to render it and my Mac didn't manage to render it completely, like it did last week. I lost the fractal.
I've changed it since last week with a new download of Apo.
I think I shall give up trying to use Apo on the Mac. I use VMWare which works perfectly with FE and PSP. It messes about with Apo which is not stable.
It's not surprising that so many people are trying to create a better system to use on Mac.
Thank you for your interest.
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I haven't tested the Mac version of Apo, but I would imagine it is the first release of something that would work well enough to not be a beta. Of course, tons of work needs to be done to it, and I know people have been working on a solution for years. Apo runs on Linux quite well now, but Mac is going to be the next mountain to climb.
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I would indeed be pleased to have an Apo that works "normally" on Mac.
The technical part confuses my befuddled old brain completely.
I haven't tried more that a couple of times to use Apo-j. (or Oxidizer)
Well it's all for my pleasure, so I don't worry too much.
The other day... just before something went wrong, so was it me ?... I made a lot of gradients from personal photos.
I put them all away into a special folder. I was so pleased.
Then Apo (in VMWare) wouldn't render once again. When I looked in the Renders window bar, for the destination, it wasn't indicated as usual. I found later that the folder I send fractals to had disappeared. I really don't know how I did that.
So at the moment I can't use it at all.
I'll make another folder to receive the fractals and see if I can find it from inside Apo.
You can't imagine how confused one can get, at my age, when it doesn't do what you want it to. Not just Apo.
When I got the Mac I was so pleased not to have to worry about security any more. The screen is gorgeous compared to the laptop. It's so fast. Of course I have had to get to know the animal. I don't know much yet.
I don't know how to use Photoshop (version for Mac,) which I have, so I need the VMWare for PSP.
That works well, (except that I lost the folder while using it).
It just seems crazy to have such a lovely computer and still get problems.
I should explain that the Mac was intended for my husband, but I was getting eyestrain from the very small PC laptop screen I used.
So he gave me the Mac and bought himself a very cheap PC, which is so slow...
This is all just talk and doesn't require an answer. Thank you for your trouble anyway.
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I completely understand, well, about the Mac at least. My Mom recently bought a Mac laptop for her business and I find it frustrating because I know how to work a PC and the Mac just doesn't follow the same system. I used a Mac computer in school years ago, but it isn't the same when you use a PC for many years. There is a way to run Windows on Mac, so maybe that would be a cure for your Apophysis woes.
I've never heard of the render folder just disappearing, so I can't help with that.
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Thank you.
When my son set up the Mac he bought me Virtual Machines Ware, which allows you you use Windows. I wanted to be able to run Apo, PSP and FE. It works well except for Apo which plays up.
`cmptrwhz helped me for one problem and I don't use .png on this computer any more, but even .jpg plays up, so it's a shame.
I have Windows on a laptop so I think I shall have to put up with that for Apo.
I do other things than Apo, photos etc. so it doesn't bother me that much, except that the screen is so small. Mac has really spoiled me! 20" !
I found the render folder inside another folder... funny. 
Thanks a lot.
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No problem, hope your issues get sorted out. Maybe someone out there would know about a fix for Apo more than I.
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thanks a lot, you don't even imagine how hardly I was looking for such a tutorial
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Thanks! I'm glad to see how many people see this and find what they are looking for.
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