a deepness in the sky by lyc

all my gallery pix were made with my programs; i notice you're using a wallpaper saying something like "real artists don't make wallpapers" -- i mainly make backgrounds, but then i'm a programmer not an artist

your curviness is well-evidenced eh, no going back on that one just putting two and two together...

hey i can be good at naming things if i want to be! ham and mustard was a bit of stoner's name since well, ham and mustard is just fucking awesome, and i needed a name pronto i've chosen the name "sentience" for my gpu-fractal rendering project (2d and 3d), once i've gotten all the apophysis variations plus my own stuff in there it'll be released. i'm hoping the high quality realtime preview will enable the same level of "designedness" as is currently found in apo renders (cf. my own, which are largely procedural - ie. an indication of my coding abilities rather than extensive experience with manipulating the parameter space).

i looked into grain surgery (awesome name!) and am really surprised that there are plugins to make good noise! dunno if it came out in my previous post or not, but i considered it something of a coincidence that monte carlo noise looks so much better than uniform or even gaussian noise; that it's been engineered into a specialised function is quite surprising to me, and i wonder what kind of techniques they're using. i guess you could just "paint" the spectrum of the noise you'd like and get used to how the output looks given some input (apo's many parameters are a much larger scale problem of this sort), but well, that's just an outright guess... thanks for pointing it out!

awesome, glad you saw it As it's Meant to be Seen