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Okay, so after a 12 hour long brute force writing spree, I've finally finished a very important long term goal of putting out my tutorial on spherical variations.
Why would I write a tutorial on how to use spherical variations? Probably because they completely confused me for the first 4 years I worked with them, and still confuse me a little bit sometimes. However, I put a lot of effort into trying to understand and explain how they work, and how you can use this fantastic variation to great effect.

This tutorial is in MS word format, and is a whopping 28 pages in length. It contains the culmination of all my understanding of spherical variations and how to use them. In this tutorial I not only provide as detailed an explanation as I can about how to make some of the most interesting spherical variation fractals, but I also provide you with the parameters I used to make some of my best pieces, including my first daily deviation.

No holds barred, I went all out on this. I'm sure there are a few typos, and I'll try to improve it with updated versions in the future. In the meantime, please let me know if it is useful to you, or if I've made any mistakes. I'm always happy to answer questions.

Beginners will struggle with this tutorial, but my hope is that even advanced Apophysis users can learn a few useful things. My work is largely auto-didactic, so hopefully there is something genuinely new to the community in this.

All of the images I have used in this I created using apophysis, except a graph that I needed to use powerpoint for. *cough*

I am always glad to be a member of the DA fractal community. You guys are awesome!

Edit: Version 1.1
I fixed a couple glaring typos.

Edit: Version 1.2 In Progress - stay tuned
This edit is not yet finished, but will include better fundamental information regarding how the variation works. This is particularly relevant when the transform it occupies is not compounding upon itself, but also helps explain some of the behavior observed in this tutorial.

Description
Okay, so after a 12 hour long brute force writing spree, I've finally finished a very important long term goal of putting out my tutorial on spherical variations.
Why would I write a tutorial on how to use spherical variations? Probably because they completely confused me for the first 4 years I worked with them, and still confuse me a little bit sometimes. However, I put a lot of effort into trying to understand and explain how they work, and how you can use this fantastic variation to great effect.

This tutorial is in MS word format, and is a whopping 28 pages in length. It contains the culmination of all my understanding of spherical variations and how to use them. In this tutorial I not only provide as detailed an explanation as I can about how to make some of the most interesting spherical variation fractals, but I also provide you with the parameters I used to make some of my best pieces, including my first daily deviation.

No holds barred, I went all out on this. I'm sure there are a few typos, and I'll try to improve it with updated versions in the future. In the meantime, please let me know if it is useful to you, or if I've made any mistakes. I'm always happy to answer questions.

Beginners will struggle with this tutorial, but my hope is that even advanced Apophysis users can learn a few useful things. My work is largely auto-didactic, so hopefully there is something genuinely new to the community in this.

All of the images I have used in this I created using apophysis, except a graph that I needed to use powerpoint for. *cough*

I am always glad to be a member of the DA fractal community. You guys are awesome!

Edit: Version 1.1
I fixed a couple glaring typos.

Edit: Version 1.2 In Progress - stay tuned
This edit is not yet finished, but will include better fundamental information regarding how the variation works. This is particularly relevant when the transform it occupies is not compounding upon itself, but also helps explain some of the behavior observed in this tutorial.