• 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….


    Designed by Parrotdolphin


    Designed by Babymilk


    Designed by Ulliroyal


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    Designed by MyNameIsShailo


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    Designed by AmyL


    Designed by Jellaboom


    Designed by Gibson125


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    Designed by Psion005


    Designed by Psion005


    Designed by CharcoaledSoul


    Designed by Artico621


    Designed by Xero-Sama


    Designed by Imaginum


    Designed by MothersHeart


    Designed by Clarissa Filler


    Designed by Kattvinge


    Designed by Babymilk


    Designed by MyNameIsShailo


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    Designed by RedHotCold


    Designed by LMarkoya


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    Designed by Babymilk

    Disclaimer: All images and their copyrights belong to their respective authors.

    Have you created fractals like these before? Have you seen other good examples? Please comment and showcase your work below…


  • 44 Comments »

     
    #1
    Kristin
    January 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    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.

     
     
    #2
    Bobby Ataol
    January 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Another great example of how Macs ain’t all that. Get a PC, they’re better anyway.

     
     
    #3
    Walter
    January 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    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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    #4
    Walter
    January 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
     
     
    #5
    Kristin
    January 8th, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Thanks for that, Walter, but I’m unfortunately still on the Tiger OS! I should really think about upgrading …

     
     
    #6
    Walter
    January 8th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    If that’s the case, wait a couple more months as Apple is about to upgrade its OS again very soon.

     
     
    #7
    honour chick
    January 8th, 2009 at 2:28 am

    great wallpapars… love abstract art :)

     
     
    #8
    Liora
    January 8th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    What captivating arrangements of color and form! Some effects are a bit overdone, but some are really refreshing.

     
     
    #9
    John Stoseel
    January 8th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Wow, most impressive indeed! Well done!

    jess

     
     
    #10
    Kristin
    January 8th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    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

     
     
    #11
    cerrah
    January 8th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    Really love these pics, thanks for sharing. I’ve made similar fractals using XaoS on my Macbook.

     
     
    #12
    Walter
    January 8th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Feel free to post some of your examples with a link to them if you want to share them :)

     
     
    #13
    macias
    January 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    whoa..nice collection

     
     
    #14
    ryancacophony
    January 8th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    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…. :P

     
     
    #15
    Hamd
    January 8th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    Wow, nice!

     
     
    #16
    Photo Sharing
    January 8th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    This is really impressive stuff! I’m going to investigate Apophysis and learn how to use fractals

     
     
    #17
    mynameishalo
    January 9th, 2009 at 1:38 am

    I am flattered that you chose to showcase some of my work. Thanks. :)

     
     
    #18
    Walter
    January 9th, 2009 at 1:46 am

    Your work is awesome! :)

     
     
    #19
    daboquet
    January 20th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    you deserve it!

     
     
    #20
    Merry Thaden
    January 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 am

    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?

     
     
    #21
    mynameishalo
    January 22nd, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    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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    #22
    Susan Stanko
    March 13th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    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

     
     
    #23
    mynameishalo
    March 13th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    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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    #24
    Dave
    January 9th, 2009 at 2:23 am

    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

     
     
    #25
    Paul Pinzarrone
    January 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    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…

     
     
    #26
    Elf Sternberg
    January 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    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.

     
     
    #27
    Ekios
    January 12th, 2009 at 8:09 am

    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 ;)

     
     
    #28
    Walter
    January 12th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Thanks for the nice feedback!

     
     
    #29
    gbowles
    January 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    This is really neat, but it load very very slow.

     
     
    #30
    Walter
    January 12th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Yes, it was slow due to a problem with the server – it’s now fixed. Thanks.

     
     
    #31
    Dennison Uy
    January 14th, 2009 at 6:34 am

    Stunning images! If you thought fractal was dead, you are wrong!

     
     
    #32
    CHAMBA
    January 21st, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    i tried this
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis/

    but mcafee enterprise said its a virus 0,o
    detected as: New Malware.bm
    type: Trojan

     
     
    #33
    Baking Chef
    January 31st, 2009 at 3:39 am

    man i wish they had kaleidoscopes like this when i grew up

     
     
    #34
    Kosa
    February 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    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 :)

     
     
    #35
    Ross Hilbert
    February 16th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    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

     
     
    #36
    BAE
    March 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    It’s great :-) .

     
     
    #37
    hebejebelus
    May 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 am

    Hey, I’m honoured that my little project has been referenced here. :)

     
     
    #38
    Gabe
    July 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 am

    :D :) :| :( :| :) :D I love these!

     
     
    #39
    sreekar
    August 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    wonderful …. i would like to learn about fractals for sure….:)

     
     
    #40
    robin
    September 9th, 2009 at 12:42 am

    cool man

     
     
    #41
    steemsprite
    December 5th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    OMGLOOK
    (anything else would be superfluous)

     
     
    #42
    Sissi
    January 4th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    Wonderful!!!

     
     
    #43
    Hermitbiker
    February 7th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Cool fractals, I love fractal images !!

     
     
    #44
    misoong2
    March 15th, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    amazing! I’m loving it!!

     
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