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Painting a Fractal 2 by ChaosFissure Painting a Fractal 2 by ChaosFissure
Chaotica website to download: [link]


Haven't read part 1 yet? Click here: [link]


If you like this, please fav it and share it!
If you make something with this, please show me!
If you have suggestions or corrections, please let me know so I can make this as accurate and helpful as possible.

There's only so much one can do when making a tutorial. I would have loved to explain this via a video tutorial, but my abilities to do video editing probably aren't that great. Plus, I don't think I could have done a voiceover for it either :/ Anyways, if you're interested in learning more or seeing a live demonstration of this, then feel free to note me and I probably could work something out!

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slestualenergie Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2016
You should check out my artwork I made with your tutorial. 
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ademilo Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2016  Professional Artist
Thank you so much!
:D (Big Grin) Hug :D (Big Grin) 
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SiennaBlue Featured By Owner Jun 19, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you!  :)
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FracFx Featured By Owner Oct 1, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
is there a version for Windows XP?  I tried using the latest version (windows 32 bit) and I get an error on installation so it never finishes installing, running Windows XP Home edition Service Pack 3- 32 bit.
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Oct 1, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Um, I'm not entirely sure; I've not used XP in over four years.  My guess would be that installing the latest C++ redistributables / .net framework might be necessary prerequisites, as it is stated that it works on windows XP.
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FracFx Featured By Owner Oct 1, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
it probably is a .Net or SDK problem , I can't download those though, I'm on a public library pc (no home internet) :/
It doesn't work on XP with SP2 though, no big deal, I get good results using apo's internal renderer and the newest 7x version has the curves option.
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LMcentury21 Featured By Owner May 12, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks for the share !
Used here: lmcentury21.deviantart.com/art…
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner May 12, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The texture and color, particularly in the middle left, is very nice :D  Thanks for sharing the result!
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LMcentury21 Featured By Owner May 12, 2014  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks!
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BoxTail Featured By Owner Jan 13, 2013  Professional
Woah, finally I did some cool fractal art [link]
Feeling super right now ~^____^~

Thanks for tutorial ^^!
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CopperColour Featured By Owner May 15, 2012
Thanks a lot for the link to newer versions of Chaotica. There is one for Mac which will help me a lot. :)
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CopperColour Featured By Owner May 15, 2012
I'll have a go with your two tuts.
I am pretty rotten with Apophysis but I like it a lot.
I wish it wasn't so log to render. I'll try Chaotica for anything I make with your tuts.
Thanks a lot. :)
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner May 15, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
If you need small scale renders done (i.e. size of what I use my renders at or less), you're welcome to pass them my way. I've rendered stuff for people before - so long as it's not an outrageous request, I probably would be willing to do it :o

Not a problem, I'm glad that you enjoy this :D If you have any questions, you're more than welcome to ask!
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CopperColour Featured By Owner May 16, 2012
Thanks for the offer. It's OK, I've just devoted an old laptop to Apo and FE. I can render on it as long as necessary.
I use a Mac and have to put Parallels on it to use Windows. It slows everything and is a bother to open. :)
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LeonieZurakowsky Featured By Owner May 14, 2012   Digital Artist
Super tut CF! :D
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner May 15, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm going to be making a few in the near future as well - one of them should be a better tutorial for chaotica that demonstrates some of the painting techniques I use more effectively :o

I'm glad you like this :D It's nice to hear that people find it useful!
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Lupsiberg Featured By Owner May 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you very much for sharing :bow: :sun:
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner May 14, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Not a problem :) There's more I wish I could have shared, but unfortunately was unable to include in this tutorial :/
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Margot1942 Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2012
Thanks for share. I will try it out soon. :-)
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Not a problem :) I look forward to seeing what you make from it!
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piethein21 Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
cant believe i overlooked this :O
I'm messing around now having fun :)
though when i put gamma up up up. i cannot always reach the brightness i want. any tips on that?

+ it gave me awesomesauce idea :D
why not make an animation of a painterish fractal :O I think that hasnt been done before (since all animations ive seen come from either apo or flam3 4 whatever) .
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You don't always need to throw gamma super high. I've been finding recently that you can go high brightness and moderate gamma (10-50 gamma, 100-500 brightness) and that will give a better sense of lighting. And then :whisper: you can bump the gamma threshold up a bit (.5-5) for possible texturing ;o

Hmm, an animation would be fun, but if I do all this stuff with chaotica color curves, it would be hard to make an animation from it all. I suppose I could try at some point though!
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piethein21 Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
ah ok thats a nice tip :)
... gamma treshold gives a boundry on which points get rounded down to zero (black) or not? on such pieces i always put it on 0 :O
i'll check the possibility's in my next render :)

for the colour curves, you dont have to redo them on each frame. when it reloads without restarting chaotica it will remember the curves of the last (at least thats what it do when copy pasting while already having a flame there). this means you only have to do the curves on your first frame and the rest will inheret (or whatever you write that) the settings of the first. i think it works that way ....
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The last time I checked chaotica, it does funky things to the colors if the curves aren't reset :3 Maybe this has been changed, but I honestly don't know.
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piethein21 Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
at the moment im rendering something but the gamma is reset to 4 on each frame (well i guess cause it does from the first to the second :P).
I dont think many people even tried the utility so doing this trial might help lyc too to improve it as well.
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Epogh Featured By Owner Apr 8, 2012  Professional General Artist
Just love this It took me a long time to understand half of what you explaining here.I asked brother lyc why I can not see all the tools eg.that curves thing on my comp not even on full view did I miss something Im running windows 7 on a laptop help is there a setting somewhere.I call it curves cause of PShoip
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Are you using the newest version of Chaotica?
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Epogh Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2012  Professional General Artist
Yes v0.47 it makes me crazy im running win7 ?does that change anything.
good thing Im not a purist asfar as apo goes its just a tool so this raw flame thing is overated if you ask me the result speaks for itsef,or should,.P/Shop does wonders to a flame but I would love to use that feature in chaotica Lyc might fix it in a newer one .TX for your input my friend I love you for it.
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm on Win7 myself...so that shouldn't change much.

I do agree, I think that an artist is only as powerful as their tools. And if they don't use them, it's their loss :3
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Epogh Featured By Owner Apr 12, 2012  Professional General Artist
I might have my grafix setting funny as I have a little laptop but wit a GFORCE somthing in used to use it for gaming now Apo is my game Ill have a look TX for the insight
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lyc Featured By Owner Mar 30, 2012
cheers for making this awesome tut! :D
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 30, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks! I'd make more, but have no idea what to make tutorials on XD
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fengda2870 Featured By Owner Mar 30, 2012
New work again [link] I like this tutorial so much.
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 30, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ooh, that's quite nice. I really enjoy looking at that!

Awesome job!
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fengda2870 Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012
Welcome to comment on this work
[link]
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fengda2870 Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012
The part 2 work link [link]
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I think it might be a bit dark. My monitor is on max brightness and I have to tilt my screen to see it.

I easily see that you made use of color curves, but have you tried using high gamma and messing around with the brigtness?
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fengda2870 Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012
Very Admirable for you.
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Gerda1946 Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I do have the .45 version so I tried to download the ,48 one. But... the link to that one doesn't work!!
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
All right, so I poked *lyc and he uploaded the most recent version. You can find it below, or on the chaotica website :)

[link]
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Gerda1946 Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I got it!!! I went to Lyc's dA site and there was a working link! But very slow!!!
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anjaleck Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for sharing your time and talent!
Hugs,
Anj
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
If it is able to help people out, it's time well spent :)
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anjaleck Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
:aww: What a nice person you are. It's people like you that renew my faith in this world.
Hugs,
Anj
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:faint: That is something one hardly ever hears. I'm far from a perfect person, and probably am undeserving of such a complement.

Someday, I do hope that I make a positive difference in the world on a global scale. Until then, I'll keep tripping up and look silly finding out how ;D
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anjaleck Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
:huggle:
You're making a good start.

I'm sure you're not a perfect person... none of us are. And I'll bet you're harder on yourself than anyone else... but never forget... you're a good person!
Hugs,
Anj
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Gerda1946 Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
OK, I will see wat happens and if it is something worthwhile, I show it to you!! :D
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ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I look forward to seeing it :) And again, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to do so :)
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