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A low quality render can ruin an otherwise great artwork. For each, two images will be presented: the first one, a decent render, and the second, a messed up one. All examples were rendered in Chaotica, but the thoughts apply to all fractal software. Special thanks to: ChaosFissure (https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfissure), BoxTail (https://www.deviantart.com/boxtail), lyc (https://www.deviantart.com/lyc) Fast Noisy Render Basically, when the fractal is not rendered long enough. While in very few cases this may be used as artistic effect, usually it just gives the fractal an unfinished and unpolished look. Here is a good and reasonably smooth render. Now, the very same fractal: the only difference is the render time - way too short.

First of all, special thanks to Zueuk (https://www.deviantart.com/zueuk) who had the patience to explain me all the hypertile stuff =D There is also an awesome hypertile tutorial that you should check out first: Hypertile Uncovered With 3D Basics To make a basic hypertile, you will need 2 transforms: Basic hypertile hypertile2, rotated 180 degreesbubble (small amount, about 0.25 lets say) with pre_blur The exact bubble size to fill a hypertile can be calculated exactly, or you can just change the amount of bubble until it fits. The hypertile has two parameters, p and q. Basically, this means it takes p-gons, with q polygons meeting at each vertex (this doesn´t mea

Fractal Art Week This article is about structred IFS fractals - basically, stuff made with Apophysis, Chaotica, and other similar software. Those aren't formal names of the things - just a little system that makes things easier for me. A structured fractal is basically composed of main structure (framework), fillers and effects. This decomposition, of course, is not universal and not even unique (one may see a transform as filler, while another as framework, for example). Main StructureThis is the transforms or a group of transforms that create the main shapes of your fractal. Removing or replacing one of those transforms with something el

Lets give the word to zy0rg (https://www.deviantart.com/zy0rg), the creator of post_depth plugin: That variation is used to create the depth blur effects in 3d fractals. Unlike Apo's native depth blur, with this plugin you can use any variation (I'd recommend sineblur) for blurring. The drawback compared to native blur is that you need to place the blurred object "manually" (i.e. using ztranslate, rotate_x and rotate_y) so it might be a bit tricky to use. But I think that the result is 99.98% worth it. You can download post_depth (and a few cool blurs) here: A few examples of post_depth results: Basic Usage To use post_depth, you will need parameters without a final tra