Given to my animated jellyfish fractal: [link]

Many thanks to ^SaTaNiA and to all the people who liked and commented!

I will do more animated creatures soon...

Hi. I'm testing a Flash application to explore zoomable fractal images online. The idea is to include a link to a zoomable high-resolution version on some of my posted works.

Also I'm planning to open a website, but at the moment I have uploaded only one image (The Sourcerer's Cauldron) and it works fine...

here's the [link].

Hope you like it...

Kali

I'm very happy, thanks to all for the nice comments, and specially to ChaosFissure for suggesting "Electrees", n8iveattitude1 for featuring me... and  also kr0mat1k for suggesting me to post my latest works here!

This obviously makes me think of spending some more time at fractal art, and continuing looking for new things to do and ways of producing some cool images. I really appreciate all this recognition, I just came from work and I have 242 notifications since this morning, crazy!!

I don't want to look overdramatic, but this is very important to me.

Gracias!!!

I was very busy lately, so I didn't have much time available to spend on fractals. But while I was doing other things, I couldn't help thinking of new ideas for formulas and I made some interesting images in the last days. I uploaded some of them to fractalforums.com gallery, but I didn't post anything here on dA since about a month ago, so I think it's time to return and upload some deviations

P.S.: If anybody wants some details on the formulas or anything, just ask me!

SOMEBODY DONATED ME A 1-MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP. THANK YOU SO MUCH WHOEVER YOU ARE!!!

But I want to know who was! Please send me a note so I can give you back some points when I have my credit card availaible again.

Many, many thanks!

My premium membership is ending in two weeks, and my international credit card is suspended because I delayed a little bit a payment... I'm very angry! I don't understand, I always paid in time, and it was my first delay and was only a few days! is insulting and ridiculous but I have no f*** credit card now so bye bye premium account

I usually find myself trying lots of formula variations, most of them variations and tweakings of my formula "Kaliset", sometimes with really good results. But as I do that in a rush, in the few moments I can dedicate to this, I don't keep an organized catalog of my findings. Many times I've lost params of very good images!

I will be doing this compilation of formulas now, trying also some new ideas, and posting some deviations made out of them.
Then I'll pick the best ones, make a well written formula file and I'll see if I can make them to be included in the public folder of Ultra Fractal 5. I don't know yet how to do this, but I guess I'll find the info on UF5 website.

Let's see...

P.S. : Thank you to all who favorited my deviations and gave me some feedback, which is always very appreciated.

Currently too busy, I won't be uploading too much. For who were interested in the program I'm developing... the project is on stand-by, sorry, but I'm not too far from releasing the first beta so when I have more free time I'll try to do it ASAP.

Later,

Kali

I separated 2D and 3D fractals in different folders.

Currently my 3D fractals are mostly tests of the formulas I suggested and were included in Mandelbulb 3D, and some combinations that includes them.
I'm not very involved at the moment in the 3D fractal art current, but I'm planning to do it in the future. I don't have too much free time, I want to finish my 2D fractal software first, and I'm currently researching for new 2D formulas (some of them could be expanded to 3D).

I have a lot of fun writing my own formulas in 2D, so if I could put my hands on a 3D fractal rendering program that let me easily do that, with decent renderings like M3D, I think I'll be making way more images. Syntopia's Fragmentarium could be the one, but too bad it requires a good 3D card, and my Geforce 9600xt died some months ago (No money for a new one as for now, so if you wanna donate you are welcome! haha )

Anyway I'm planning to do more stuff with Mandelbulb3D using my suggested genIFS and 3D Kaliset formulas, I will be uploading some new images soon.

I just couldn't stay away. Too exciting new stuff to do, and a rainy weekend

Hi there! I'm taking a rest from fractals for a while, cause I'm a bit busy on the "real life", but I will come back soon.

To my watchers: I hope nobody got angry because I didn't post thanks for every favorite or watch I had, but I'm doing it now... thanks to all for the positive feedback, I really appreciate your interest

Also I want to mention that the fractal program I'm writing is a bit delayed, but the project is still alive. I just have to find the time and a bit of inspiration to finish at least a beta version for you to try out. I've been thinking of some cool features, I hope I'll be able to include them.

See you soon!

I'm starting a series of images, that will have a separate folder in my dA gallery and also in fractalforums.com, with the patterns generated by the new formulas and variations I'm discovering lately. I decided to do all of them in monochrome (b&w), and only brightness and contrast will be adjusted.

I'm using my nick to name the patterns, even when *some* of this type of patterns appears in other formulas discovered by other people. But this are made only from my formulas and as far as I know this are the most simple way for reproducing this type of patterns. Also, the ones using only real numbers are the only who have a direct 3D analog (or any number of dimensions). Another reason for naming them that way, is that the patterns are related to KALeidoscopic images (the 'absolute' function in the formulas acts as a 'mirror').

The first series will be 2D patterns, but I'm thinking of doing a 3D series later. I must improve the rendering techniques a little more for that.

The images will be made with Ultrafractal 5, using 'exponential smoothing' coloring method, so the lack of color will be saved by the smooth shades of gray that this method produces, that looks very nice for me and I use it in many of my pictures.

I'm going to include the formula info of each image for anyone who is interested.

Hope you like them, and I'll appreciate some feedback.

In the last days I were busy exploring some ideas I had, so I put the FractKali project in stand-by for a little while (after all, the results of this ideas will be included in the software, off course)

The fact is that I found a very tiny formula, that shares both the concept of Samuel Monnier's Ducks, and Tglad's Mandelbox.

The details are on this thread of FF: [link]

The most important aspect of this is that can be expressed easily in 3D using real values. The creator of Mandelbulb 3D did a 3D version of this, it's not easy to handle and requires some special treatment (also it only works in Julia mode with neg. values), but it's nice!

I didn't decide yet if I will call it "Kalisets" or "Kaliducks", choose whatever you want or suggest any other

The formula in complex numbers turned to be z=1/abs(z)+c - the same as z=abs(z)^-1+c, so it turned to be a "power -1 burning ship fractal".
This led me to explore the regular "burning ship" (z=abs(z)^2+c, and z=abs(z^2)+c variation), using "exponential smoothing" inside coloring method, because I expected this patterns must appear inside it also and... they were actually! At the moment, I didn't find anywhere that this was known before, so maybe I did a discovery, no too exciting, but a new discovery after all

Off course I'll be uploading some deviations on this...

This is a small preview of how I'm implementing moving and exploring in my fractal program:

[link]

The formula used here is just Mandelbrot with a tweak (and still monochrome), as the only intention was to show the navigation mode. Once I make some more progress on the GUI, the realtime tweaking of parameters, and coloring modes, I'll show more interesting results of formula combinations.
The good news are that I managed to implement multithreading in the calculations (made me spent the little time I had for this in the last days), so they are working faster. I think I could optimize them even more, though.

Now it's time to continue the design of a good GUI. I have some new ideas that I think could be great, but a little difficult to code for me. Let see if I can do it!

Today I added some new stuff and organized my gallery in folders. The fractals I uploaded were made with formula combinations I'm testing lately, to see the possibilities of the fractal generator I'm writing. One of the good things is that I was able to implement and combine my "discovery", Mandelbrot on real numbers, with good results. After all is just an exponentiation of the real and imag values separately, then add to both values the modulus of the Julia constant modified by a multiplying factor (this is one of the variations I'm using). The original method for obtaining patterns was plotting the interference of two Mandelbrot formulas applied to real numbers, iterating them separately on x and y axis. I posted this on fractalforums.com, and gained the attention of that community, because of the curious patterns that emerged from that simple method without using complex values. This led later to the discovery of a "fractal waveform", a drawing that resembled a soundwave... Once I discovered why this drawing appeared, I wrote a VB code to make a sound file and sounded like wind gusts! It was funny to make that, but after all is only the waves produced by the mandelbrot iteration on the real axis, between the ranges -2, 0. If you plot this waves after each iteration, you get a bifurcation map... one of the simplest examples of how chaos emerges from the iteration of such a simple mathematical formula.
You can see the threads I mentioned here: [link] [link]

Well, I wasn't very active here in the last days... I'm spending most of my free computing-time in writing a program for generating fractals (See  "Strange Feelings", a sample of what I'm doing). Anyway, I purchased a Premium Membership, because I'll definitely stay around here. In the next days I'll be posting more stuff, even some writings (they are in spanish, but maybe I'll try to translate some). Also I want to look for more people sharing my interests, to interchange ideas and thoughts. I already met more nice people I know from fractalforums, and also contacted my nephew that lives in Spain, and makes wonderful drawings!
So I feel very comfortable here, this is a wonderful place... no comparison to the shallowness I found on other social networks!

Hi! Just arrived here. I wish I have time to fully get involved with this, but I think I'll be participating from time to time, and posting some of my works.
I've been fooling around a bit. There is too many good stuff, too many good artists! I don't know if it encourages me to getting better, or to not even trying to make it! But I think it's a matter of just expressing myself through art, to letting know others what's in my insides, beyond critics and ratings, beyond comparisons... also trying to find an unique style that fits well with me.

I'm also glad for being well recieved, the great 3D fractal artist MarkJayBee, who knows me from fractalforums.com, welcomed me and we are "watching" ourselves already. Thanks Mark!

So I will be looking for some new friends, sharing some things, and enjoying the contributions of the huge amount of great artists from this community... this also will improve my english a little more; My first language is Spanish, but I manage to express myself with written English quite well. There will be some mistakes or weird phrasing, off course!

Ok, no more words, I'll continue the uploading process!