FarDareisMai [2010-10-12 19:49:21 +0000 UTC]
Overall
Vision
Originality
Technique
Impact
A bunch of planets sitting in God's hand (or maybe Cthulu's tentacle e.deviantart.net/emoticons/g/gā¦ " width="17" height="15" alt="" title="Giggle"/>) like gems.
I really like the color variation on the orbs: part opal and part northern lights. Very cool. I also like the background. It is interesting without detracting from the main focus.
I notice you have "echo lines" here, those places in a fractal where the gradient just starts repeating in concentric shapes. They are mostly seen when the fractal is zoomed out a bit. You know what I'm talking about? Anyway, I call them "echo lines." Now, normally, I hate them and try to edit them out of all my fractals. But here, they actually work! One of my favorite things is when someone turns a bug into a feature, and you have definitely done that here. The lines look like glyphs of pseudo-Mesoamerican carvings or something. I noticed you did the same thing in Texture King, actually. Congrats; you have no created the only two instances of echo lines which I actually like. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/l/lā¦ " width="19" height="21" alt="" title="Laughing my ass off!"/>
The one drawback to this fractal is the crop. The composition seems quite haphazard. For instance, that blue orb, since it ids different than the rest, is a strong focus; it naturally draws the viewers attention. But you have it half cropped out right on the edge and it makes the eye go straight to the corner. It's quite unbalanced. You also have a strong black line in the background right at the top, running parallel with the top edge. It seems awkwardly placed. If I were you, I would have cropped this differently, either promoting the blue sphere to a position where it doesn't unbalance the image, or cutting it out entirely. I would also pay attention to the way the lines intersect the edges of the image.
š: 0 ā©: 1