Fractal News

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Wow I recently hit 19k pageviews, 1,000 in less than a month, amazing!
Thanks to all my friends, watchers, and visitors
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I just got accepted into a new club, Fractal Dreams
and they are holding a Rainbow contest, details can be found here:
[link]
Go check it out and put your favorite rainbow gradient to work!

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Newest News

Flam3 has finally hit the beta stage, info and download here:
[link]
quoting from this page I found this paragraph particularly interesting:

"- Variations. I've added about 28 variations to flam3, and I've decided that(at least for the near future) I won't be pursuing a plugin architecture for new variations. There's so many crap vars out there that don't follow the rules that I don't want to have to try to support that nonsense;
if there's a responsive developer (me) then it should just be a matter of letting me know which ones are the most useful and interesting, and I can put them in the code in short order. I will probably add a few more before the first official release."

guess that means me as I didn't know and didn't follow "rules" for plugin making, which is also what makes the ones I did, not really crap, but capable of making stuff you wouldn't be able to otherwise, ah well, I'm taking a break from the plugin making until I learn "the rules".

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New Electric Sheep Apophysis Screen Saver Program For Windows
Get it here:
[link]

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I was watching Kill Bill Vol 1 and noticed how much the music played such a major part of the movie, and in all movies in general, then I had an idea I had for those of you who like theme challenges, Trivia, and those of you who have trouble coming up with a name for your devs:

Think of your favorite movie(s) and look up the soundtrack for it/them on google.com

Amazon.com usually has the whole lists (and a preview button to listen to the clips), most movies use several songs, enough to make a cd anyway

Then name your pics the names of the songs on the soundtrack.
So, the object is for your friends/watchers to "Name That Pic", the "pic" being the name of the Movie from the devs you posted as the hint once you have posted a few, kinda a mix of art/music/movie trivia

I have a hard time coming up with names sometimes, my last dev at this writing was named interference, because that's what it is (noise/waves) and reminds me of.
Some would be easy, like if I posted "Footloose"
you'd automatically know it's from that movie

But if you posted "If I were the king of the forest" and "If I only had a nerve" it might not be as obvious
although that's kind of an obvious example too
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Sourceforge has changed their page and the file download links to all apo versions or anything hosted on Sourceforge are STILL there, you just have to click the download button to access the download section now...
I did notice some programs are missing now, Apograd and Joel Faber's Image apo, not sure of any others.
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FLAM3 2.7.18 released
Get it here:
Flam3
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Getting Started In Apophysis And Fractal Art Creation
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FreeWare

Original Apophysis
Apophysis

Apophysis 2.08beta2
Apophysis2.08Beta2

*NEW*
Apophysis-JK by ~Lu-Kout
[link]
It's a port of Apophysis2.08beta2
Some cool functions are only active variables show in the editor box on transforms and you can pause renders to take snapshots and then resume the render.

Apophysis2.08beta2 3D hack:
Apo2.083D
3D now has xaos! should prove to make some interesting new stuff
Go give a big hug and thanks

Gygrazok's Apophysis 2.06 Z+
Apophysis Z+

cyberxaos's Apophysis 2.05beta2Z+C++
Apophysis Z+C+

Zueuk's 3d Apophysis Hack
Apophysis 3D Hack

Joel Faber's Image Apophysis:
Image Apophysis

Michael Faber's Apophysis Image Tutorial:
Image Tutorial

Info tip from :
Quote: "I have discovered something cool....
Joel Faber's Image Apo 2.04, doesn't allow for moving post transforms or additional plugins, But if you move the posts around in 2.07, as Ngons with a power of 1, then open the result in JF's 2.04, the posts will still be moved, and you can change them to the image variation."
Thanks for the the info m8!

A Club for Apophysis-J users (Java based version)

Apophysis-J
Drop by and check it out if you're a Mac or Linux user (Windows as well) if you want to see what Apophysis-J is all about

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Apophysis Plugins

Apo Plugins
[link]

Lu-Kout's Plugins
[link]

"Z" Plugins from the beta2z+c+ version for Normal apo
[link]

The Plugins - The Next Package by *gossamer-light[link]
Includes fold, sinecho, mblur, uncube, gblur, squarical, wings, and hemisphere.

SuperMassive Plugin Pack by =phoenixkeyblack
[link]
Just like the name suggests, it's a collection of almost all the plugins, a rather large download but well worth having

*You will need to create a folder called Plugins to use these plugins if you don't have that folder yet, then once downloaded copy them into the plugins folder. For Apophysis2.083D create a folder called Plugins3D

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Free Paint Programs for Post Working
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ArtWeaver, Free Graphic program with multi-layer support:
ArtWeaver
My Personal Favorite for freeware as I like the interface better than Gimp's

The Gimp, free paint program, can also make animated gifs
Gimp 2

PhotoFiltre, Free Graphic/paint program, no transparent layer support but it has some cool filters and is VERY easy to use.
I highly recommend it for people new to using paint programs:
PhotoFiltre
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A new place on dA for all Fractal Resources For you:
[link]
Your one stop shop for Scripts, Tutorials, Flame Packs and more
Got a cool script, gradient pack, flame pack,plugin or tutorial you want to share? Just send them a note with a link
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My resources list,
A great tutorial, I recommend it for a beginners basis: All about Apophysis - Beginners Tutorial by BurnoutPriest [link]

Apophysis 2.04 Tutorial by ~nemopaice [link]

Script Writing Tutorial by ~ThePieProphet [link]

Beginners Scripting tutorial by *djeaton3162
[link]

Julian Grand 3D Tutorial by ~neoMWH [link]

Julian Uncovered Tutorial by `ClaireJones
[link]

Rotational Tutorial with flame Pack by `Halcyon83
[link]

Ultra Fractal Marble tutorial by =Velvet--Glove [link]
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Apophysis Blog by Aporev:
Here's a page with more info and helpful links by
[link]
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If you have any questions/problems with apophysis feel free to note me as I have probably already had the problem before and found the info on how to fix it.
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Are you new to fractal arts? Want to learn more and get more exposure? Or maybe you're a Senior Fractal artist that likes to help the new people (like me )? Then check out the
New Fractalist of the Month club
Details here: [link]

"Senior fractalists are fractalists that have been working with fractals for over eight months, or have more than fifty fractals in their gallery."

Want a laugh? Check out the 30 second bunny movie parodies at
[link]
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Cool clubs I'm a member of
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Apophysis Chat Room:[link]

*New dA Fractal Forum: [link]

ApoShack Chat Room:[link]

My stamp made for me:
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Procrastinators of the world uni- aw forget it

"As is the nature of the fractal to step and repeat,
seeing the result conform to imagery is always a treat"
~macquaid
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I want to say a big THANK YOU to all those who responded to my journals and donated time or money to this cause, I can't stress enough how important this is to me.
I lost my mom to breast cancer long ago and I now take care of a terminally ill cancer patient in my home, So this is a cause very personal and close to my heart for me.
Cancer CAN be beaten!!! Just go ask =Webwoman and *Bootsbounty They beat it!

The breastcancersite.com is not getting enough daily clicks to keep funding free mammograms.
So I ask all of you, my friends and watchers, and everyone else at dA who read this, to make it a daily habit of clicking the link to fund free mammograms.

No need for monetary donations (although they are greatly appreciated), this costs you nothing but a moment of your time,
and you will be helping to save the lives of many women and men (yes, men can get breast cancer too)
So please, please, bookmark the link and make this a daily habit!

For those of you who have Cancer, you have my heartfelt sympathies and I want you to know there ARE people who care, DON'T GIVE UP!
Drink ESSIAC Herbal Tea (An ancient Indian Remedy), it's the real Cure for cancer if caught in time!
Doctors won't tell you that until it's too late as they would lose billions of dollars in funding (just my opinion)

Here's the click link:
TheBreastCancerSite

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time out of their busy lives to pitch in!
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