Some more Gimped fractals

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:01 am **(#1)**

Somebody cure me of this addiction!

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Jun 15, 2013 9:03 am **(#2)**

Erisian, The second one would make a wild looking frame!

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jun 15, 2013 10:58 am **(#3)**

erisian: wouldn't it be more fun if the addiction spread instead? i hope it does

. some of these remind me a bit of some patterns i made with silicon mirror once upon a time but lost when my portable hard drive crashed. i thought of frames too, just like odin - the first two would have been perfect framing some art nouveau text on an early twentieth century poster. i think four, five and six are my favourites.

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Jun 17, 2013 4:49 am **(#4)**

Thanks everybody. I was thinking of using some of these as frames and writing paper decoration.

BaukjeSpirit · **Posted:** Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:15 pm **(#5)**

I immediately thought of a frame at the second one! They are all beautifully done.

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:59 am **(#6)**

Thanks BaukjeSpirit. Here's some more.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:27 am **(#7)**

Wow I like the pink ones too. I have learnt a small bit about fractals but would like to learn more. Dont stop Erisian until you tell others how this can be done please.

AnMal · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:53 pm **(#8)**

erisian: i love this new batch very much! the colours are just my style and i like the intricacy of the fractal patterns. and as usual i see lots and lots of things in them, the last one for example, is a picture of a character in a peking opera

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Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:43 am **(#9)**

Thank you both.

sallyanne - The best fractals for this are made with Sterling2 (It's free) The rest is playing with G'MIC's relief light, mirrored array and symmetrizoscope filters. When using the fractal software you need to do two or three renders the same size with different render modes or filters then put them together in Gimp using overlay layer mode.

hanciong · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2011 **Posts:** 112

Erisian wrote:

Thank you both.

sallyanne - The best fractals for this are made with Sterling2 (It's free) The rest is playing with G'MIC's relief light, mirrored array and symmetrizoscope filters. When using the fractal software you need to do two or three renders the same size with different render modes or filters then put them together in Gimp using overlay layer mode.

*googling sterling 2 ................. done*
*downloading sterling 2 ................. done*

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Love them all!!

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I've got thing on my iMac called Fractal Maker but its beyond my expertise I think...dont understand it at all

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:05 am **(#13)**

akky wrote:

I've got thing on my iMac called Fractal Maker but its beyond my expertise I think...dont understand it at all

I only learnt through trial and error at first and discovered a lot in the process. If Fractal Maker has mandelbrots, try zooming in between the deep V shape and increasing iterations to about 600. Find a shape that you like then if it has filters, play with them. You'll be surprised how easy it is.

You can also find other mac fractal software here. http://fractalarts.com/ASF/download.html

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Lovely Eris. I also like the one that looks like a frame. The pink ones are very pretty too. KUDO's

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2013 5:29 am **(#15)**

Thanks Mo. The pink ones are my favourites.