Tag: apophysis
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Glass Roses
And other sophisticated blooms. I’ve been tinkering with Apophysis blooms again, because I can. That, and I can leave the program up, running a render, and come back to it, make a few tweaks until I find something I like, render that and walk away… It’s much cleaner, this digital art thing, than traditional…
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Coloring Nebula
Standing here staring at the screen. I’m working on art, and I’m wondering: what color are nebulae, anyway? All the images we see are artificially colored, so far as I know. Like this series of images from the Hubble, of the Crab Nebula. I could lose hours wandering through the image gallery on that site. …
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And Then, Art
Quiet day today, taking care of household minutiae. And in the interstices, learning a new art program. I’ve been working with Apophysis for more than a year, creative fractal flames that are amazingly diverse, from organic, abstract, to highly geometric and organized. I’ve had Mandelbulb for just as long. The problem has been one that…
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Math is Art
I’ve always found something strangely fascinating about those blackboards or whiteboards with huge incomprehensible equations scrawled across them… But I have to face that although I passed calculus, it was by the skin of my teeth. I can catch glimpses of the beautiful, elegant thing that math is, like looking through curtains out into a…
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Oddments
Today is another busy one. So I’m just going to throw a few things here I think you all might be interested in. I know I was, but that doesn’t always translate! So this morning I’m excited to see that Alton Brown is planning a new show, a follow-on to Good Eats. I loved that…
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Bubbles
I am planning another book set Underhill. I’ve even written the opening scenes for it, and have a title, The East Witch. I will start working on it once I wrap Tanager’s Fledglings up. I’m also doing something a bit different for it. The main characters will not be Lom and Bella, but one of…