This one took well over an hour to render (greatful that I can create these but still wish the Perculator folks would port their program into Windows; lol). I did do other things as I was waiting. lol

Anyway, just trying to get motivated with rendering once again; just not been motivated much of late.

Nicely done Lyle.

WOW
i i can't remember what is the Perculator but your result is fascinating

More play; didn't feel like I needed to start another thread.

Kind of reminds me of the old Mr Bubble commercials.

I made the mistake of trying Apollonian with both the Iteration and Curvature at max. The only thing that rendered was my poor computer, to it's knees

Thanks for the comments. Guess I should give out a few more hints (note, I said hints since it will depend on the result and I do all these at the seat of my pants. lol). After Circlism finishes (around 4 games worth of Freecell for this one. lol), I dup the result then rund G'MIC's Local Orientation with a smoothness between .2 and .3. I set this result to Grain Merge, then dup the Circlism result, move it to the top and set it to Hue (or Color; depends on how much saturation I want) and also dup this setting the top layer to Lighten and play with the Opacity of this layer too. For the result here, I also blurred the result of the Local Orientation rendered layer. Now I did some other nuances too (some Inkscape filters and such; don't ask me which since I don't exactly remember but thing it was the Refractive Gel B preset, but I'm not going to play 4 more games of FreeCell to find out. lol). Also, I did run my G'MIC Soft Focus preset to enhance the contrast too. Again, like I said, seat of my pants. lol

Definite, if it wasn't for G'MIC, I could not do this render, so again, thanks to the vacationing David for creating these cool presets in G'MIC (not to mention G'MIC itself; lol).

The metallic balloons alternative. Much faster to render too since I start out with a smaller version then resize; the side effect was the fringes which gives it that metallic balloon lool. Fast as lazy. lol

Cool Lyle, they look like satin buttons.

Appreciate the feedback Molly.

Why not more metallic balloons. lol