40 Amazing 3D Fractals Using Apophysis

7 Jan
40 Amazing 3D Fractals Using Apophysis
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Today we’re featuring 40 fractal images created using Apophysis. It’s a free Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. You can download the software for free at SourceForge

Recently, Apophysis has been getting more and more popular among the community of DeviantArt. Apophysis, and competing fractal product UltraFractal, are the most popular fractal software used by fractal artists on deviantART.
Here are some of the most stunning examples that we’ve found online. Click on the images to see full previews. Enjoy and get inspired….

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Have you created fractals like these before? Have you seen other good examples? Please comment and showcase your work below…
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#1
Kristin
January 7th, 2009 at 18:28
Gorgeous! I’m wishing Apophysis works for Mac platforms, this looks like a fun way to get some creativity out and on to a digital canvas.

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Bobby Ataol
January 8th, 2009 at 21:21
Another great example of how Macs ain’t all that. Get a PC, they’re better anyway.

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Walter
January 8th, 2009 at 21:38
Macs are great – but some developers ignore it and don’t develop for it – it has nothing to do with Macs – they’re great computers!

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Walter
January 7th, 2009 at 20:27
This should help: http://hebejebelus.deviantart.com/art/ApoMac-75013915

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Kristin
January 8th, 2009 at 01:19
Thanks for that, Walter, but I’m unfortunately still on the Tiger OS! I should really think about upgrading …

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Walter
January 8th, 2009 at 01:24
If that’s the case, wait a couple more months as Apple is about to upgrade its OS again very soon.

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honour chick
January 8th, 2009 at 02:28
great wallpapars… love abstract art

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Liora
January 8th, 2009 at 16:02
What captivating arrangements of color and form! Some effects are a bit overdone, but some are really refreshing.

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John Stoseel
January 8th, 2009 at 17:11
Wow, most impressive indeed! Well done!
jess

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Kristin
January 8th, 2009 at 17:26
Kristin – There’s a tiger version at the end of the release notes in walter’s link….
http://Hebejebelus.deviantart.com/art/ApoMac-1-1-Tiger-75638232

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#11
cerrah
January 8th, 2009 at 17:57
Really love these pics, thanks for sharing. I’ve made similar fractals using XaoS on my Macbook.

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Walter
January 8th, 2009 at 18:13
Feel free to post some of your examples with a link to them if you want to share them

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macias
January 8th, 2009 at 18:11
whoa..nice collection

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ryancacophony
January 8th, 2009 at 18:21
Check the link for my website, back in highschool, my International Baccalaureate Art portfolio was about mathematical art, and mostly fractals created by apophysis.
w00t.
I’m no expert, but I spent a lot of hours in apo/apo3d….

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Hamd
January 8th, 2009 at 23:27
Wow, nice!

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Photo Sharing
January 8th, 2009 at 23:38
This is really impressive stuff! I’m going to investigate Apophysis and learn how to use fractals

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mynameishalo
January 9th, 2009 at 01:38
I am flattered that you chose to showcase some of my work. Thanks.

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#18
Walter
January 9th, 2009 at 01:46
Your work is awesome!

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daboquet
January 20th, 2009 at 22:54
you deserve it!

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Merry Thaden
January 22nd, 2009 at 03:22
Your work is the reason I’ve learning to use this program. I’m spent hundreds of hours on Ultra Fractal, I love what you’re doing in Apophysis! WOW. Do you have any tutorials?

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mynameishalo
January 22nd, 2009 at 14:58
I have only one tutorial myself – it’s posted on my deviantart.com gallery, but there are dozens, if not hundreds of apophysis (2D and 3D) tutorials available on deviantart.

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Susan Stanko
March 13th, 2009 at 22:01
You work is absolutely extraordinary…so beautiful…and the colors!!! REALLY enjoyed viewing your creations. Is this a new thing for you? Whatever it is, you definitely were meant to play at this!
If it is a new venue for you, I would be very interested to know how you got started, and what you found to be most helpful in your creations.
Blessings and peace,
Susan

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mynameishalo
March 13th, 2009 at 23:17
I guess you could say I’m fairly new to this. My interest in fractal art kind of piqued when I saw some fractals made with Apophysis while going over the galleries at DeviantArt.com and it just fascinated me so I decided to take a stab at it.
My first fractals were far from artistic imo since they were just simple random creations using Apo’s in-built randomizer – I just picked out a few that were interesting and rendered them. (One of the remarks I made on one of those renders was something like “Anybody can do these” as I was not quite convinced that it was “real” art. Pretty, yes, but calling it art was a bit of a stretch.
As time went on, I came to realize that it WAS possible to control my creations by checking out a few tutorials/galleries of some Apophysis masters and I slowly started to understand the inner workings. If you check out my deviant art gallery page, you can see the progression of my learning from my first submitted fractal to present.
I’m glad you enjoyed my work.

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Dave
January 9th, 2009 at 02:23
Wow, wow, wow.
I feel looked I just looked into the future 100 years to see what will be like.
I can’t actually pick a favourite.
Cheers Dave

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Paul Pinzarrone
January 9th, 2009 at 13:09
Very nice body of work. Many are technically superb and you guys presented a nice variety.
These [ http://www.pinzarrone.com ] are built up in many layers with much tweaking in photoshop. Home page & Pieces Under Construction are works in progress…

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#26
Elf Sternberg
January 9th, 2009 at 14:17
Wow, those are gorgeous. I immediately went and installed Apophysis 2.0 and was very pleased to see it runs perfectly on Linux. Very cool.

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#27
Ekios
January 12th, 2009 at 08:09
WOUAOUW !! Impressive !! Thx a lot !!
PS : i’m following your blog from a few moment now, and I just want to congratule you. Your work is really good and help me a lot !!
PS²: i’m not a native english speaking, sorrrrryyy

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Walter
January 12th, 2009 at 17:39
Thanks for the nice feedback!

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gbowles
January 12th, 2009 at 17:28
This is really neat, but it load very very slow.

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Walter
January 12th, 2009 at 17:53
Yes, it was slow due to a problem with the server – it’s now fixed. Thanks.

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Dennison Uy
January 14th, 2009 at 06:34
Stunning images! If you thought fractal was dead, you are wrong!

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#32
CHAMBA
January 21st, 2009 at 20:13
i tried this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis/
but mcafee enterprise said its a virus 0,o
detected as: New Malware.bm
type: Trojan

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#33
Baking Chef
January 31st, 2009 at 03:39
man i wish they had kaleidoscopes like this when i grew up

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#34
Kosa
February 2nd, 2009 at 19:26
Most of those images are used in screensaver electric sheep http://electricsheep.org/
I’ve used it for years and sometimes get caught stareing on the animations for no reason

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Ross Hilbert
February 16th, 2009 at 23:36
Outstanding work! Someday I must give Apophysis I try.
Check out some fractals I created with the Fractal Science Kit at:
http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/tutorial/examples/examples.htm
Ross

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#36
BAE
March 12th, 2009 at 15:10
It’s great .

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#37
hebejebelus
May 23rd, 2009 at 03:06
Hey, I’m honoured that my little project has been referenced here.

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Gabe
July 2nd, 2009 at 04:31
I love these!

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sreekar
August 15th, 2009 at 13:54
wonderful …. i would like to learn about fractals for sure….:)

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robin
September 9th, 2009 at 00:42
cool man

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steemsprite
December 5th, 2009 at 16:59
OMGLOOK
(anything else would be superfluous)

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Sissi
January 4th, 2010 at 15:56
Wonderful!!!

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Hermitbiker
February 7th, 2010 at 12:20
Cool fractals, I love fractal images !!

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misoong2
March 15th, 2010 at 15:03
amazing! I’m loving it!!

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La Cinyc
May 13th, 2010 at 15:53
Hmmm I like fractals… even when sober :p
seriously, thanks for this find, didn’t know it was so great using apohysis

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#46
Tom Klaassen
May 24th, 2010 at 20:28
It appears to be BabyMik instead of BabyMilk if we can believe her deviantart name

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#47
Helene
June 5th, 2010 at 14:03
Some wonderful examples here! I create fractal composites, where I combine a number of layers of fractals into a single image. If you’re interested you can click on my name to see some of my work.

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#48
Stephen
June 28th, 2010 at 21:12
Hello:
I’m a graduate student in architecture @ Miami University and am looking at 3D fractal geometry as a generative methodology for building structure + form for my thesis project. Does Apophysis actually build 3D fractal geometry, or is it simply a rendering program, enhancing 2D images?

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#49
wij
July 19th, 2010 at 02:41
Woow,, that’s awesome 3D abstract design !!
it looks so wonderful composition and effect…

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#50
nofel
July 25th, 2010 at 10:15
its wonderful effect, like it, thx ^^

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#51
Ajay Kumar
August 12th, 2010 at 07:17
GOD Created Apophysis…
Then he created the Universe.

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