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Published: 2005-07-21 23:26:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 2083; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 272
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Made with Ultrafractal 3.02Yeah, caught me playing with my......orbs, again - lol. Not sure I'm through fumbling around with this one yet but its close, I reckon.
Enjoy the ride!
Rick
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Comments: 30
Completely amazing. Wonderful contrasting colors, shapes, the "water," etc., etc., etc.
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Ohhh awesome!! I love it when they look like real things, lmao.
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You have to have the best mapping techniques I have ever seen. Ever.
I personally like the smoothness of this; texture is good, but this is one situation where it is not needed.
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ABsolutely SWEEt ... WHat an eye you have .. Excellent title ! and great flood tweaking !!...
THis should Sooo be a wall ... 
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im diggin a hole and i'm makin it deep
an' im starting to question the hours i keep
and the answers that i'd put to sleep...
i dont have it now
i dont have it now
` the POSIES ' / Amazing Disgrace Album
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Hi! The water is made by using the "Lake" mapping that is standard in Ultrafractal. You can set the wave amount and the waterline. On this image, I also made a semi-transparent layer in Photoshop and applied the "Flood" filter that's made by "Flaming Pear" to sort of give the water finer detail. Google "flaming pear" and you'll find their website. The filter costs like USD $20, but its welll worth it.
Rick
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I meant more the vortex effect in the fractal itself not the water though it is an interesting effect
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If you mean just the overall spiral design, that can be found using the "Switch Mode(F7)" function in UF. It's an icon on the top toolbar. You just open a fractal window, choose a formula then click the icon and move your cursor over areas of the fractal window. On thee right-hand side of the workspace, a new window opens and the fractal changes as you move the cursor. When it looks like something interesting, just click your mouse at the position that gave the good look and a bew fractal window opens with that fractal in it. Then you just zoom and layer it as you want.
If by "vortex" you mean the sphere floating in the water, that is done using the "Glass Hemisphere" mapping function in the "Standard.uxf" folder that comes with UF. I like to set the center of the mapping at a 45 degree angle a little to the right and under the center of a spiral as I typically shade orbs with the light coming from the upper left. Hope I answered right this time! 
c-ya!
Rick
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ah I see! I'll check it out thanks for the tips, I appreciate it!
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This is fractal art ? No... I'm really impressed 
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wow the colors are so beautiful.... i absolutely love it
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Very cool! I like the 2D tunnel entrance (exit??) with the super 3D orb! Cool beans, but now you got ME singing a song
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This is a place I would love to visit! Very beautiful
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I doubt very seriously that the anti-orb gods will find you here...
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:faint when sees it:
You just used ultrafractal? amazing!
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Yeow. What wonderful color and presentation. You the man Rick.
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wow, this really does remind me of a tunnel...and in a way it looks so real...especially if it were at like...disneyland or something.
amazing work.
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