Before Adam

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

BEFORE ADAM (Parameters Pack )

soon in my DA gallery, this is a preview of the cover for gimpchat

and the original raw fractal

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very proud of it because is my first 3D fractal that is not a tweak

I was tempted to add a huge Dragon or Dinosaur, but scaled down to make it barely visible (my favorite trick to enhance the sensation of proportion ) but then would be no more a raw fractal

Well there is my standard postwork : render 3x bigger (4800x3600 for a 1600x1200 wallpaper ) , apply a bit less of 2 px gaussian blur (here 1.8), scale down, apply unsharpmask 2 with soft setting (unsharp2 because allow to sharpen by adding a dark halo, that look much more natural and unobtrusive than the white halo of normal unsharp mask..gmic "unsharp is almost equivalent to unsharp mask 2 )

Erisian · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 9:48 am **(#2)**

If that's your first render from scratch, it's pretty good. My early efforts with M3D were dreadful!

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

well is the 7th but i did all 7 in a row yesterday night, this was the last

and i believe the other are not too bad ,only here not only i found the way to focus on the objects i like more but also to get rid of unwanted things in the BG , without make fade the objects i want focus on

well i could have removed them with gimp but i badly wanted do it in the raw fractal

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

As i wrote zooming out there are some surprises

Bigger size (1600x1200 wallpaper ) and parameters on the DA page http://photocomix2.deviantart.com/art/B ... -300504250

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

another overview...

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 12:35 pm **(#6)**

You found some great shapes there. I find it difficult working from scratch with an amazing box. I tended to use ABoxVaryScale or one of the Quat formulas as they gave me an initial shape to work with.

merrak · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 4:51 pm **(#7)**

The top one may be my favorite one of yours yet. :kpix