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I'm sorry...

by ^SaTaNiA, May 8, 2013, 2:44:47 AM
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Hey deviants.

I'm writing this journal right now feeling guilty to be honest...

I'm be really away from dA those last weeks due to a lot's of things...

First of all I want you to know that I'm really sorry.

As you know deviantART is a real familly for me and that's why i'm felling guilty right now

I've been away first due to my IRL work, my chief is actually trying to make some moral harassment, making me work more than 50/60h a week with crazy deadlines and sick aims..

That's just make me crazy and leave me no time at all for deviantART.

Now this last week I've been really ill and by the way I was not healthy enought to go to the internet...

That's why as you've have seen this week there's not Daily Deviation.

BUT! Don't worry they will be back tomorrow

I've planned to try to give more time to myself those next weeks.

So i'll be back with some fresh news, I'll try to connect in the #Aposhack to pong some parameters, and make new fractals !

Once more I'm sorry for not beeing here those last weeks

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April Fractals Daily Deviation RoundUp!

Wed May 8, 2013, 2:33 AM

Hey guyz !

Now in case you missed them, here are all the DD I've set during April

Stay devious guyz!!

Previous Fractal Art DD Round-ups !

| September 2012 | October 2012 | November 2012 | December 2012 |
| January 2013 | February 2013 | March 2013 |

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Meet the Fractal Community #9

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 10:56 PM

Hey everybody !

Welcome to the ninth edition of Meet the Fractal community !

In few words, Meet the Fractal Community is be a bi-monthly interview with an artist of our beloved fractal community.

This week let's have a closer look to =jim373!

First of all , please introduce yourself to the community.
Hi everyone, my name is Jim Marx, I'm 59 and I live near Philadelphia in the USA.

Tell me how to call you? Do you go by your Name or an artistic pseudonym?
Most people call me Jim, certainly all of my friends do, although some other people insist on calling me by my first name which I never use and won't mention here!.

How did you discover deviantART Jim ?
Back in 2002, I was just starting to create wallpapers I felt were good enough to share with others. I searched the Internet for a site that would accept my uploads and happened across deviantArt. I was hooked instantly and have been here ever since! I've made many wonderful friends here from all over the world. It's safe to say that I am quite addicted to DA and although I have tried other sites, they just don't measure up to everything that I enjoy here at deviantART!

What is your earliest Artistic memory ?
When I was very young, my parents gave me an oil painting kit for Christmas. I must have been about 8 or 9 at the time. I painted a picture that of course drew raves from my dear Mother which started me on the path to artistic endeavor. I've always liked to draw and paint; I've also done sculpture and ceramics while in college, but my love for creating art really blossomed with the introduction of computers and digital art programs

How did you discover fractal? And why did you want to create some ?
I first discovered fractals in the early 90's when I downloaded a very basic fractal screensaver for my computer. It fascinated me and made me want to create something like that, but it wasn't until I joined DA and saw what people were creating in Apophysis and Ultra Fractal that I realized I could really make it happen.

Are you empirical or academically trained?
I took a number of art courses in college, but for everything related to the digital world, I learned from doing tutorials and studying the parameters of others which they so generously shared.

What's your favorite tool of trades and why ?

Bryce was always my first love and I've used it since it's earliest version, but once I actually took the time to work my way through the included tutorials in Ultra Fractal, that completely took over as my favorite art program. I also love Apophysis, though I just can't quite get it to do what I picture in my mind. Mandelbulb 3D is another favorite and of course I dearly love my Photoshop!.

What are your favorite kind of fractals ?
I mostly like Abstract and surrealistic artwork, so that is my main interest in making fractals.

If you have to choose only one fractal in your gallery which one would it be and why ?

That is a tough one, there are several that I especially like, but if I have to nail it down to one I guess it would be this one...

It reminds me of the old bookcover artwork from the fantasy books I loved to read in my early years

Do you have some tips for new comers in the fractal art world ?
I would tell them to get familiar with one program that they like, do some tutorials and study the params of other artists, which is an excellent way to learn.

I've got one more question for you... if you were the last one standing in the world, what would be the first thing you would do ?

Well, after screaming why? a few times, I guess I would get down to finding someplace warm to stay and something to eat, make sure the basics are covered... and then maybe take a real long walkabout! .

I hope you guyz enjoy this article and are ready for the next one in two weeks !!

Have fun and stay devious

Previous issues :

| MTFC#1 With Coby01 | MTFC#2 With Piethein21 | MTFC#3 With bib993 | MTFC#4 With Sya |
| MTFC#5 with FarDareisMai | MTFC#6 with Depaz | MTFC#7 with p3dy | MTFC#8 with cmptrwhz |

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Fractal in the nature III : Landscapes

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 2:50 AM

Ahoy guys!

How are you today ?

In this Fractal in nature article, last time we spoke about snowflakes and Earth Views, this time we will see something kinda different as it's not really made by the nature but made by manipulating some aerial landscape photography!

to quote the article :
David Thomas Smith invites us to discover its “Anthropocene” project about the complexity of the structures and modern architecture. Composing works from aerial photographs taken by satellite handled, duplicated and reworked.

Article made by Fubiz.net available here : "Aerial Photography"
Images used in this article are property of his/her rightful owner

Previous Editions :
| Fractal in the nature I : Snowflakes | Fractal in Nature II : Earth View |

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March Fractals Daily Deviation RoundUp!

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 2:17 AM

Hey guyz !

Now in case you missed them, here are all the DD I've set during March

Stay devious guyz!!

Previous Fractal Art DD Round-ups !

| September 2012 | October 2012 | November 2012 | December 2012 |
| January 2013 | February 2013 |

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Meet the Fractal Community #8

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 4:11 PM

Hey everybody !

Welcome to the eight edition of Meet the Fractal community !

In few words, Meet the Fractal Community is be a bi-monthly interview with an artist of our beloved fractal community.

This week let's have a closer look to `cmptrwhz!

First of all , please introduce yourself to the community.
My name is Dave Dartt (cmptrwhz).

Tell me how to call you? Do you go by your Name or an artistic pseudonym?
Call me Cmptrwhz as I am a computer freak. I love creating on the computer, programming, website design, and fractal art are just a few things I have interest in.

How did you discover deviantART `cmptrwhz ?
My friend from work introduced me to the site when she found out that I was using apophysis to create fractals.

What is your earliest Artistic memory ?
My earliest artist moment was high school, I took art class for an elective option in 9th grade and from there I continued to take art as an elective every year after even thou it was not offered and no other higher level class was available. My art teacher made an exception and personalized a harder more difficult class every year for me. I dabbled in a little bit of everything. My teacher felt that learning a little bit of everything he could show me would give me a well rounded eduction in the artistic arts. Some of the things I remember doing was working with clay, painting with water colors, acrylics, and oils, I used a rapidograph pen set to create images purely from dots of ink, used pencil a lot making portraits, still images of fruits, vegetation, and etc, my art teacher was found of cartoon characters so I learned a little of that and with all the classes I took I cannot forget and will never forgot that I had to learn about all the great artists of the past and what their styles were and why they were famous I was tested on that subject matter for my grade, I do remember that my teacher had me try each artists style not to make me great in that art form but to again give me a well rounded education, and there was more but I'm 42 now and forgot what all I did when I was that young lmao.

How did you discover fractal? And why did you want to create some ?
I was searching the web and came across Apophysis purely out of chance.

Are you empirical or academically trained?
Most def trained in school by the most caring and awesome art teacher ever.

What's your favorite tool of trades and why ?

When it comes to fractals it would be Apophysis, but for physical art I love painting with oils and canvas and someday when I finally move my kids out of the house I will pick it back up. But with kids around there is always a dust cloud and then the ever so evil fingers, but then who has a kid that doesn't get into everything.

What are your favorite kind of fractals ?
Fractals that resemble something in real life or can be put together with other fractals to form a more complete overall image, marbles, and then my last fav would be tilings.

If you have to choose only one fractal in your gallery which one would it be and why ?

That question is super easy to answer, my perfect fractal is Heaven's Stairs.

My reasoning is I believe in God and this is my interruption of stairway to heaven that you see elsewhere. I created the stairs in Apophysis and as soon as I seen the image come thru (as I played around in the editor) the idea hit me right away that I needed to make this into my own heaven's stairs. I rendered the image at 40x30inches at 6000 quality and 2 oversampling. Let's just say it took a while to render. then I opened it with photoshop and started to go to town making clouds and shading and etc until I finally was finished with 30 layers on this image. I had to install an extra hard drive just to give myself enough memory to open and work with this image. Normal people would have given up with all the headache and crashes I went thru and simply reduced the image size but I persisted until I finished with what I just had to create. The other reason I am very proud of this is that it is hanging in my church. I had it framed in a darkish wooden frame with a glass cover and donated it to my church to do either auction or give away but do with it as they felt. they decided to hang it up. This made me very proud.

Do you have some tips for new comers in the fractal art world ?
Yes, DO NOT GIVE UP. yes learning sucks and most fractals don't even come close to come out the way you want or even something you would want post but never give up. The more you practice and the more you persist the more experience you will gain at controlling the program rather than the program controlling you.

I've got one more question for you... if you were the last one standing in the world, what would be the first thing you would do ?

Look to the heavens and ask what I should do and then continue with life as best as I can until it is time for me to leave.

I hope you guyz enjoy this article and are ready for the next one in two weeks !!

Have fun and stay devious

Previous issues :

| MTFC#1 With Coby01 | MTFC#2 With Piethein21 | MTFC#3 With bib993 | MTFC#4 With Sya |
| MTFC#5 with FarDareisMai | MTFC#6 with Depaz | MTFC#7 with p3dy |

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Gallery makeover project : Fractals

Mon Mar 18, 2013, 6:22 AM

Hi guys!

As I've mentioned in my last this week in my MC, you may have seen that actually there's a huge project around gallery makeover.

Fractal could be impact and could change now !

For our main gallery actually we have this structure :

Which seems to be OK for me.

But it's my own opinion, and I'm not the community !

So you, what do you think of this ?

How would you change it ?

What I think is important to keep in mind is the fact that we're trying to be the more generic as possible...

So I think I won't accept suggestion like : "Please give us real sub-category in each category ! Like a Ultra Fractal folder, an Apophysis folder and a Mandelbulb folder"

I support that simply because it's impossible to keep those kind of sub-categories up to date...

Imagine if each time a software is create, you must re-structure each subcat, move all the "misscat" deviations etc...

Also the main aim of this project is to "simplify" our categories to make them even more efficient !

So we're actually deleting and merging many of them. (don't worry actually fractals are not impact)

Now let's take a look at our Resources and Stock images gallery !

Here I think we could make some more efficient changes !

Here's our actual structure :

At first sight the main structure seems OK.

IMO I would love to change the Parameters Pack name to Parameters

Why ? Simply because actually we should not have only PACKS in this gallery.

There's no place where to post fractals with parameters, which make them really hard to be found outside of some specifics groups folders...

How would you change it ?

What are your needs in our Resources gallery ?

Don't hesitate to ask for something or to tell me your opinions about our category structure.

It's time to create some awesome for you and made by you !

Take care and stay devious

Damien

Suggestions recap:

- Update the Raw fractal category with :

_ 2 Dimensional Fractals.

_ 3 Dimensional Fractals.

- Removing the animation gallery.

- Find a way to include 3D software textures / meshes / palette.

- Rename Parameters Packs for Parameters.

- Allowed more file formats in Parameters.

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This week in my MC #11

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 3:50 PM

Hell yeah this week in my MC even more fractalish than ever !

As you may have seen this last week a big thought is actually going on all galleries about a massive restructuration. Fractal Art won't be away from this think tank!

I'll post really shortly a news with some drafts / ideas I have actually, also I'll need your inputs as it's your category and your community

So don't hesitate to keep your suggestion in mind and be ready to post them on my net journal

Now let's see what happens last week

News

Now looking for contributors! by #Digitalists

New Commissions Portal Coming Soon by +spyed

Featured Member - Ersi by #FractalDreams

Time to announce a WINNER......................... by #Inspiration-Showroom

Member' s Feature...LightBulbMoon and RabidMoon by #XtremeFractals

Contests

CONTEST is open ... by #Soulcollectors

Contest - March 2013 by #ApoContest

Mandelbulb Challenge #3 by *Daeurth

LOOKING to SPRING Fractal Contest..... by #XtremeFractals

March 2013 Challenges by #Ultra-Fractal-Redux

Ultra Fractal monthly Challenges Redux - Vol. 26 by *heavenriver

FOTM March-Purple folder open by #Fractal-Flowers

Art

See you next week guyz and stay devious

Previous editions :
This week in my MC #1 | This week in my MC #2 | This week in my MC #3 | This week in my MC #4
| This week in my MC #5 | This week in my MC #6 | This week in my MC #7 | This week in my MC#8 |
This week in my MC #9 | This week in my MC #10 |

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Meet the Fractal Community #7

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 9:39 AM

Hey everybody !

Welcome to the seventh edition of Meet the Fractal community !

In few words, Meet the Fractal Community is be a bi-monthly interview with an artist of our beloved fractal community.

This week let's have a closer look to ~P3dy!

First of all , please introduce yourself to the community.
Greetings to everybody . Well, I'm a 21 year old Hungarian primate, who listens to the name 'Livia', and studies bioengineering at the University of Szeged. I'm mostly known here, on dA as the founder of #UF-artists (in the outside world my 365 bad hair days/year are distinctive enough to recognize me).

Tell me how to call you? Do you go by your Name or an artistic pseudonym?
I prefer being called Livia, or Livi, but most of the times I listen to anything that rhymes with them

How did you discover deviantART Livia?
I was a teenager with a certain desire to become a graphic artist, and after some searching I managed to find dA, registered right away. Probably was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

What is your earliest Artistic memory ?
I was about 1 year old, and drew a puli on my mom's crossword. Didn't know it was actually a puli, because all I did was a huge black doodle, but I later reckoned that it totally looks like our dog.
About 4 years later, the only thing I could do all day was drawing, and so it became sort of a passion

How did you discover fractal? And why did you want to create some ?
I was browsing through DDs, when I saw a beaaautiful tiled Apo fractal. I thought it was hand drawn, when I was enlightened, that this is pure math. Being a math-head myself (one doesn't study engineering without a certain passion for numbers, right?) I immediately tried Apophysis, but I didn't like it, so I discovered UltraFractal, which was probably the rabbit's hole into a wonderland I'll never get bored with.

Are you empirical or academically trained?
Purely empirical.

What's your favorite tool of trades and why ?
Basically anything I've tried so far has a place in my heart, but traditional drawings, fractals, and photography became the 3 all-time love of mine.

What are your favorite kind of fractals ?
Spirals! And pretty-pretty abstracts. Usually anything that has a captivating tone, and nice textures, I'm easy to amaze.

If you have to choose only one fractal in your gallery which one would it be and why ?
Probably this one, here:

because I think it would be one of my favorites if I saw it in somebody else's gallery

Do you have some tips for new comers in the fractal art world ?
Probably the most important is to be brave with fractals! Dare to change the params, dare to try out formulas you've never met before, dare to upload it, share it wherever you want it, and listen to those, who are more experienced. Don't ever fear to ask questions, fractal people have proved themselves to be the most helpful, friendly, and generally the kindest folks around the artist bunch - so never ever be afraid to ask, to compliment, to learn, to borrow. Fractalling is an ever changing experience, which is fueled by curiosity and bravery.

I've got one more question for you... if you were the last one standing in the world, what would be the first thing you would do ?
Sit into the middle of my favorite church, light a cigarette, and ask the Boss some serious questions. Then probably surround myself with animals, make a huge garden, invade the abandoned libraries, save the most gorgeous books from decay, and live my life until I can.

I hope you guyz enjoy this article and are ready for the next one in two weeks !!

Have fun and stay devious

Previous issues :

| MTFC#1 With Coby01 | MTFC#2 With Piethein21 | MTFC#3 With bib993 | MTFC#4 With Sya |
| MTFC#5 with FarDareisMai | MTFC#6 with Depaz |

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This week in my MC #10

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 6:17 AM

Hell yeah this week in my MC even more fractalish than ever !

News

Fractals with parameters by #FractalDreams

Another Shocking Loss! by #XtremeFractals

Selling on the Premium Content Platform by $Ayame-Kenoshi

Site Update, March 7 by $wreckling

Digitally Delicious: March 7th by ^Thiefoworld

Undiscovered Weekly: Digital Art Feature by `cinyu

Peace, Box. by +spyed

Contests

MARCH 2013 FracManip-Challenge Announcement by #FracManip-Challenges

Contest - March 2013 by #ApoContest

Mandelbulb Challenge #2 by *Daeurth

Art

See you next week guyz and stay devious

Previous editions :
This week in my MC #1 | This week in my MC #2 | This week in my MC #3 | This week in my MC #4
| This week in my MC #5 | This week in my MC #6 | This week in my MC #7 | This week in my MC#8 |
This week in my MC #9 |

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February Fractals Daily Deviation RoundUp!

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 9:34 AM

Hey guyz !

Now in case you missed them, here are all the DD I've set during February

Stay devious guyz!!

Previous Fractal Art DD Round-ups !

| September 2012 | October 2012 | November 2012 | December 2012 | January 2013 |

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What's up fractal gallery #2

Mon Feb 18, 2013, 2:51 PM

Hey guyz !

How is 2013 so far?

For me this year start on a really good way, I hope for you too

So here's a lil recap of what you should have read about our gallery those two last months!

If you have suggestions of articles / contests or whatever you think about it's time for it

Features

This week in my MC #8

This week in my MC #9

This week in my MC #10 (incoming soon)

Interviews

Meet the fractal community #5 starring `FarDareisMai

Meet the fractal community #6 starring ~depaz

Fractal Art feeds

Fractal in the nature II : Earth View

Contest

Fractalize you Xmas Holidays Winners !

Daily Deviations RoundUp !

January 2013

Some more article will incoming soon for your

Take care and let's rock 2013 !

Love you guyz

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Meet the Fractal Community #6

Mon Feb 18, 2013, 2:28 PM

Hey guyz

Welcome to the sixth edition of Meet the Fractal community !

In few words, Meet the Fractal Community is be a bi-monthly interview with an artist of our beloved fractal community.

This week let's have a closer look to ~depaz!

First of all, please introduce yourself to the community.
Okay. I'm depaz and I'm 27, I'm currently studying and living in Valladolid, Spain. I am a reserved type of guy. I love photography, messing around with computers, and chilling out listening to music, specially downtempo music

.

Tell me how to call you? Do you go by your Name or an artistic pseudonym?
I prefer to be called by my pseudonym. My pseudonym comes from my surname "de Pablos", so I feel pretty identified with it.

How did you discover deviantART ?
I've always been interested in art. Long time ago, I used to play with old versions of Photoshop to make awful designs and photomanipulations, and I eventually wanted to check tutorials and the possibilities of the program... so guess what, I ended up browsing dA, probably thanks to google or another search engine. I remember staring wide-eyed to the amount of artwork and resources that can be found here, and testing every single PS tutorial that came to my hands. At that time I also gave a try to paint shop pro, 3d studio, and to a lot of other programs... yup, I'm curious by nature, I even played with colors using qbasic, hahaha.

What is your earliest Artistic memory?
I remember myself drawing, next to the heater, lying on the floor at grandpa's home when I was just a kid, I also remember how enjoyable it was, I used to lose track of time... ending up exhausted, sleeping.

How did you discover fractal? And why did you want to create some ?
Electric Sheep screensaver hypnotized me during hours, I really wanted to know how to generate something like that, it was simply amazing. My curiosity made me end up reading about fractals. I downloaded a copy of Apophysis, and I started playing with it 24/7

Are you empirical or academically trained?
I'm 99% empirical. Imho, there are lots of things that have to be experimented, and can't be learnt academically.

What's your favorite tool of trades and why ?
Obviously Apophysis. The reason? It's powerful and does have unlimited possibilities, I always learn something new, and a stunning fractal is the best reward for me. This can be applied to other fractal programs like UF, Mandelbulb3D, XaoS, Gnofract4d, Fragmentarium... and many are pretty interesting, but I currently feel more comfortable using Apophysis, I love the looks of the resulting fractals, and as I said before, I always learn something new, so I don't feel in the need of switching. I've recently discovered Chaotica thanks to *lyc, and I know there is an editor in development. I find the project pretty interesting... it can eventually be a worthy successor.

What are your favorite kind of fractals ?
I usually prefer the most technical and intrincated ones. I like to see new patterns and ideas, imaginative stuff. I also enjoy abstract or simpler ones, when they're well made.

If you have to choose only one fractal in your gallery which one would it be and why ?
That's hard to answer, I'd choose more than one. But I'll choose Dreamland: [link]

it's a mix of ideas that turned out quite nicely, and it somewhat defined many of my later works.

Do you have some tips for new comers in the fractal art world ?
Only to enjoy, experiment, and learn a lot. Don't make something completely random, keep some control of it and make something truly special for you.

I've got one more question for you... if you were the last one standing in the world, what would be the first thing you would do ?
Hahaha, oh well. Good question. If I wake up and I find myself alone in the world I'll firstly do all kind of crazy stuff, the kind of stuff you do because "you can, and no one can prevent/care about it", like:
*Entering in a supermarket and eating all the stuff I've never eaten, before it rots.
*Take a look to lots of secret documents
*Dancing nude inside the congress

I'll eventually notice my situation... and I'd end up doing something more logical, like:
*Living in a farm and taking care of animals and plants (if we suppose that there are still animals and plants alive)
*Building stuff I can use, any materials I could need would be at my disposal.
*Spending the rest of my life trying to find someone
*Dying of boredom (the most logical thing

)

I hope you guyz enjoy this article and are ready for the next one in two weeks !!

Have fun and stay devious

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This week in my MC #9

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 8:21 AM

Hell yeah this week in my MC even more fractalish than ever !

Let's start this week 7 with an awesome recap from the week 6

News

Fractalize your Xmas Holidays Winners! by ^SaTaNiA

Chat Events Calendar by #communityrelations

January 2013 Daily Deviation Roundups! by ^Kaz-D

10 years of Europeans deviantMEET in Lille! by #europeans

Site Update: DMCA Reporting, Multiple Uploads by $wreckling

Digitally Delicious: Feb. 8th by ^Thiefoworld

Groups

3 new groups are here for your now !

"ApoContest provides a platform for monthly apophysis contests. Every month there will be a new theme you'll have to deal with."

$:iconultra-fractal-redux:$

"This group is more than a mere collecting point for UF art. It is also a place for sharing knowledge about the program and how to use it with one another, so that we can all learn and grow together as amazing Ultra Fractal artists!"

"It is the only dedicated fragmentarium group here and I think it is a program that needs more attention and a way to make it more accessible to non coders/math people.
We hope to build a knowledge base that makes it more user friendly so anyone with a reasonable graphics card can make use of it"

Contests

Contest - February 2013 by #ApoContest

Announcing our new UF Agony Aunt event! by #Ultra-Fractal-Redux

Art

See you next week guyz and stay devious

Previous editions :
This week in my MC #1 | This week in my MC #2 | This week in my MC #3 | This week in my MC #4
| This week in my MC #5 | This week in my MC #6 | This week in my MC #7 | This week in my MC#8 |

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Fractalize your Xmas Holidays Winners!

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 2:17 PM

Ahoy !

After a week working on judging all those wonderful deviations the time has come to announce the winners !

It was really tied and hard to choose the 3 winners but here they are!

...

First place

Some words from our judges : " A beautifully colourful composition with a great use of variable focal length to evoke an intimate narrative. The glowing light gives a nostalgic feel to the piece, while the vibrant tones evoke a digitised notion of the season. "

You win:

- 1 year Premium Membership
- 1600 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

Second Place

Our judges say : " This piece contains an outstanding balance of composition and repetition of form; it has almost an hypnotic quality played out in seasonal shapes and tones. "

You win :
- 3 months Premium Membership
- 800 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

Third place

Judges love it because : "I love this because it's a really great use of the repeating aspect of fractals."
" A traditionally seasonal fractal with an appropriate and tasteful use of tones and patterns. This piece makes fine use of a foreshortened depth of field to give the pattern a sense of depth "

You win:
- 1 month Premium Membership
- 400 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

Runners Up

Congratulations to all of the winners and I'm really glad and want to thank you for entering this first contest !

I hope it won't be the last

Take care and Stay devious guyz !

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Meet the Fractal Community #5

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 2:58 PM

Hey guyz

Welcome to the fifth edition of Meet the Fractal community !

In few words, Meet the Fractal Community is be a bi-monthly interview with an artist of our beloved fractal community.

This week let's have a closer look to `FarDareisMai !

First of all , please introduce yourself to the community.
My name is Jess, I'm 23 and I live in Montana, USA, and if you ever want to talk to me I hang out in #Aposhack a lot.

Tell me how to call you? Do you go by your Name or an artistic pseudonym?
My name is fine. A lot of people here call me Far, which is also perfectly fine. Either works for me.

How did you discover deviantART ?
As I recall, I was linked to it from a Wheel of Time fansite a very long time ago.

What is your earliest Artistic memory ?
Oh, this is a hard one. I've probably been drawing since I had the motor skill to hold a marker. When I was very little, I would go to my grandma's place and churn out like twenty drawings of random stuff and put them all on her fridge.

How did you discover fractal? And why did you want to create some ?
Well, the first time I was introduced to the term, I was in seventh grade attending this little conference meant to encourage girls to participate in math and science stuff. The presenter showed us the Sierpinski triangle, explained how to generate it via the chaos game, and that it had a non-integer dimension. This is also the first time I as introduced to the idea of different cardinalities of infinity. Overall it was pretty mindblowing for a twelve-year-old!

About a year after that, I discovered a website full of fractal desktop wallpapers. [link] This was the moment I realized that they could be turned into art. Then when I got on dA and saw the works of Nicholas Rougeux (`rougeux), I decided I wanted to make some too.

Are you empirical or academically trained?
My formal education is in English literature and creative writing; all the fractal stuff is self-taught or learned from other people on dA (primarily in #Aposhack).

What's your favorite tool of trades and why ?
Impossible to choose. I like to call myself "ambidextrous" in UF and Apophysis. Technically my first program was apo, but after about two weeks of stumbling around in it I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of UF (which was the kind of art that had drawn me to fractals in the first place). For several years I made UF fractals almost exclusively. But in the meantime, apo gained a lot more features (when I started, it didn't even have the julia variation let alone any of the fancy plugins we use today) and so sometime in 2009 the people in chat convinced me to make a serious go at learning it. Now my recent gallery is full of apo, probably 3-to-1 against UF for 2011 and 2012 cumulatively. But, I can't say whether it will continue like that. In fact, in the long run I'll probably end up switching to chaotica instead of apo. I've already been doing all my apo renders in chaotica since about April 2011.

What are your favorite kind of fractals ?
"Abstract," which annoyingly means a different thing to fractal artists than most artists. I guess most people would consider almost ALL fractals abstract. Anyway, what I mean is that I like fractals which go beyond the "typical" structures (spirals, mandelbrots, gnarls, splits/elliptic, grand julians, etc) and focus on artistry over technical stuff. I make a lot of fractals that are meant to look like paintings, or just a field of some awesome pattern with no negative space. I like it whenever I get a comment like, "I never would have guessed this is a fractal!" which is fairly frequently.

If you have to choose only one fractal in your gallery which one would it be and why ?
Oh dear, I'm currently facing this dilemma for an art show too.

It's so hard to choose but I guess for now I will go with Motet:

I just love the amount of detail and the feeling of sublime grandeur it gives me.

Do you have some tips for new comers in the fractal art world ?
It's a long haul and there's a lot to learn, so don't give up, and don't expect to be good instantaneously or even after several months or a year. Hang out in aposhack, pong params, and get to know other fractalists. Don't be intimidated by "popular people" or "big names" because most of them are super friendly. Don't be afraid of learning some fractal math but don't feel inferior if that kind of thing is difficult for you because you can still make amazing art without it. Develop an eye for image quality so you can spot aliasing or jpg artifacts from a mile away.

And last but not least, learn general art concepts like composition and color theory instead of obsessing only about fractal-specific stuff! So many people think fractal art plays by different rules and criteria, or that if you don't make fractals you can't critique fractal art, but that's not true at all. Photographers and painters who have never opened a fractal program have given me excellent artistic advice, and conversely I sometimes find that fractal artists will go on about plugins forever and never say how an image makes them feel. Don't lose sight of that.

I've got one more question for you... if you were the last one standing in the world, what would be the first thing you would do ?
A bunch of my friends and I discussed this once, and came to the conclusion that we would use a sperm bank to no longer be the last person in the world.

Being a very practical and boring person I'd probably start off by migrating to somewhere with lighter winters. Then I'd hoard a bunch of non-perishable food, find a fuel source to get some generators up and running, and start a garden or something. After I had all the survival stuff taken care of I'd probably read a lot to stave off the inevitable crushing depression and loneliness.

And you, what could you say about her?
*lyc
"Jess is really good at pushing her software to the limits and finding out how it works, which is easily seen in the uniformly high quality of her art"

"Glassblowing is a typical fractal by Jess in several ways:
1. it's well-titled,
2. it's well rendered (at great computational expense)
3. it's beautifully coloured!
It is atypical in that it is a quite unique looking UF gnarl, standing out among the many other works she's made over the years with arguably better rendering software.

I hope you guyz enjoy this article and are ready for the next one in two weeks !!

Have fun and stay devious

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January Fractals Daily Deviation RoundUp!

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 8:53 AM

Hey guyz !

2013, is now on ! I wish it start the best way for you and I hope 2013 will be really even more insane compare to 2012!

Now in case you missed them, here are all the DD I've set during January

Stay devious guyz!!

Previous Fractal Art DD Round-ups !

| September 2012 | October 2012 | November 2012 | December 2012 |

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This week in my MC #8

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 12:06 AM

It's been a long time since my last this week in my MC !

You know life is hard sometime and actually i'm a bit overwhelmed at work (IRL)

So first of all I hope this year has start in the best way possible for you and your family and here we go again !

News

Writing Opportunties by ^Beccalicious

DYK? - Easy Official Links, My Correspondence by ^ladygagz

Site Update: The New Submission Process by $wreckling

New Submit: Setting up Prints Tip by $renonevada

The New deviantART Submission Process by $danlev

FractalCircles Relaunched by #Fractal-Resources

Buy 3 deviantART Gear Items, Get Another Free by £deviantARTGear

shackmeet and flower feature by *piethein21

Chaotica 0.666 (all platforms) by *lyc

Evernight Saga Cover Artwork! by `lindelokse

Contests

Need to promote your contest ? Feel free to contact me via note with the link to your contest!

(Closed) Fractalize your Xmas Holidays now !!!

EDIT 2

The time has come and the contest is over now !
We are now going to judges all those wonderful entries

I'll make a new journal entry as soon as we finish (should be next week )

Thanks a lot for all your support and awesomeness

Stay devious guyz !

EDIT 1
A little reminder for you guyz !
This is the last call for all passengers

We are the 31st January and the contest is ending really soon !!!
Don't forget to submit your entry before the deadline !
You enjoyed your Xmas holidays? Would you love to make them last forever ?
Make your dream comes true!
Make those memories from those 2012 Holidays in an artwork.
You'll be able to use ALL Fractal Softwares you want.
You can manipulate or animate your fractals if you want.
The main thing you must respect is that your work must be Christmas Related and created especia

DON'T FORGET TO ENTER OUR FRACTAL ART CONTEST !!

5 DAYS REMAINING !!

Art

See you next week guyz and stay devious

Previous editions :
This week in my MC #1 | This week in my MC #2 | This week in my MC #3 | This week in my MC #4
| This week in my MC #5 | This week in my MC #6 | This week in my MC #7 |

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Fractal in the nature II : Earth view

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 4:04 AM

Hi deviants !

How are you today ?

Did you enjoy your holidays ? Mine was awesome, I just miss deviantART so much

In this Fractal in nature article, last time we spoke about snowflakes, which are just macroscopic !

Now let's see something bigger... you know ... like the Earth size!

_{Earth is round just round there's no fractal in a round !}

In fact your right... almost right. Because we'll see fractals on earth from space today !

To quote the article :

Thanks to satellite Landsat 5 in orbit for 29 years, we can discover beautiful pictures of our planet. The device, now put out, was able to capture more than 2.5 million images of the Earth during its 150 000 revolutions of the globe.

What can we see in those 2.5 millions of images ?

A lot's of awesome fractals made by the nature itself !

In our gallery :

_{_{Article made by Fubiz.net available here : "Earth From Space"}}
_{_{Images used in this article are property of his/her rightful owner}}

Previous Editions :
Fractal in the nature : Snowflakes

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(Closed) Fractalize your Xmas Holidays now !!!

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 4:13 AM

EDIT 2

The time has come and the contest is over now !

We are now going to judges all those wonderful entries

I'll make a new journal entry as soon as we finish (should be next week )

Thanks a lot for all your support and awesomeness

Stay devious guyz !

EDIT 1

A little reminder for you guyz !

This is the last call for all passengers

We are the 31st January and the contest is ending really soon !!!

Don't forget to submit your entry before the deadline !

You enjoyed your Xmas holidays? Would you love to make them last forever ?
Make your dream comes true!
Make those memories from those 2012 Holidays in an artwork.
You'll be able to use ALL Fractal Softwares you want.
You can manipulate or animate your fractals if you want.
The main thing you must respect is that your work must be Christmas Related and created especially for this contest!
Now don't hesitate to be crazy and to make your memories shine !

Rules:

All fractals softwares allowed

Can be a RAW or MANIPULATED or ANIMATE Fractal

1 entry per deviant

Your entry must be submit to the correct Contest Category foundable here :

CONTEST>2013>Fractalize Your Xmas Holidays

The deadline is 31st January : 12PM GMT.

(all deviations submit after this deadline won't be accepted.)

Judges :

(an eclectic panel with different views to be the most neutral and the most efficient !)

Winners Prize:

1st Place :
- 1 year Premium Membership
- 1600 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

2nd Place :
- 3 months Premium Membership
- 800 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

3rd Place :
- 1 month Premium Membership
- 400 deviantART Points
- A4 Print of Dahlia Blanc
- Journal features (Thanks to `lindelokse/=lucid-light)

Runners up select by the judges will also have a journal feature!
If you want to give some prizes, feel free to contact me by note or by email.

And also feel free to spread the words on your groups, blogs or personal pages, I'll greatly appreciate !

Now let's create !
<3

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Shoutbox

~Antares2: I am honored to feature here in the MC#10 of the great Satania ! Thank you very much.
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