arfink wrote:I have been running all my software under Linux, using Wine where necessary. I'd be curious to know Beverage, are these pictures just from the renderer, or have you post-processed them? They look really nice.
They're straight from Apophysis, I render them with transparent backgrounds (is there a way to do otherwise?) so the only post-processing done is to add a black background and (sometimes) resize or something. Nothing to modify the way the image looks though, sort of a purist thing I guess. You and I actually have a similar setup; I'm on Fedora linux and use Apophysis (in wine) with The GIMP.
arfink wrote:EDIT: and... what render setting are you using? I cranked mine up pretty dang high, and it wasn't taking 4 hours... unless I zoomed way in on a small part of the frame.
I generally crank up the size, 3000x1500, 3000x2000, or 4000x2000 are my usuals for horizontal whereas for vertical I go 1500x3000 or 2000x4000. Rarely do I do anything square, but it would be something like 2500x2500. The filter radius is 0.4, the quality I go for is either 2000 or 4000, occasionally I'll do something special if the render time gets obscene (like overnight or something). Oversample is usually 2. Buffer depth at 32-bit integer. Of course, it doesn't help that I've got an ageing computer... nVidia GeForce 6600 powers my graphics, haha.
Also on that topic, it really does depend on where in the "scene" you render. I very rarely do that double click full wide zoomout thing, I sift around and go for a nice camera angle if you will. That probably has something to do with it, sometimes very basic renders will take hours upon hours just because of how close up the zoom is.
arfink wrote:I have actually been considering mixing fractal work with really low-res pixel art, using dense fractal fields in place of solid colors for pixels.
That would be pretty cool actually. I've tried somewhat similar low-fi things going heavily on the rectangle parameter and trying to use squares to make up the image.
Things like this are what I ended up with, not exactly what I hoped for, and somewhat ugly at that. I'd be intrigued with what you get at with your low-res pixel fractal. Maybe there's something in the parameters, or a script (for some reason doesn't work in my version under wine. 
), that could be written to get that sort of thing out of Apophysis itself.
Last edited by Beverage (Feb 7, 2010 7:46 pm)
the image in the first post is great, I really like it, it's like ink under water or something
