architecture by lyc

i know, it's somewhat large. the original was rendered at 6168x18456 and i wanted to keep as many of the fine details as possible... off on the wrong foot there with fractals, i know...

anyway, i really like the downright alien look on this one! i was gonna call it "arcitecture", but that would probably be stretching the double meaning a bit too far and the implied pronunciation is rather lewd.

kram1032 Featured By Owner Sep 16, 2007

that looks sooo great, again!
Damn, I wish, I could say more to your work^^

surika Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2007

hmm, I'm somewhere between seeing cells of some organism or strange cathedrals ... and in a way, it's calming.

interesting.

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2007

appreciated, esp from such a talented, real artist!

what's especially interesting to me is how differently we see things; to me, this work is somewhat unremarkable, because it was technically easy - however non-techies seem to like it a lot more. very interesting

surika Featured By Owner Jul 7, 2007

guess, it's a question of perspective - whether you regard it as something aesthetic and inspiring or as a technical challenge ... in a way, art vs. sport.

my favorite point of view is an amalgam of both, but I've got pretty much no expecience how to do fractals, let alone how to code them.

hippiedesigner Featured By Owner May 15, 2007

amazing!

hippiedesigner Featured By Owner May 15, 2007

really? i don't think u've met enough [link] yet

hehe, but don't worry, i know what you mean...

lyc Featured By Owner May 15, 2007

much appreciated

it's not very often my programming gets noticed by souf efricans

Void-Hamlet-Herself Featured By Owner Aug 4, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I completely understand why you would wish to publish it this large, even at this size I admit I wish I could see it larger.

lyc Featured By Owner Aug 4, 2006

feel free to note me with a desired size (bearing in mind the 1:3 aspect ratio) and an email address

thanks for the fav!

Void-Hamlet-Herself Featured By Owner Aug 5, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Note sent on a plate with tea, toast and other breakfast components.

lyc Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2006

pls let me know when you've grabbed it since i don't want to keep it online too long...

Void-Hamlet-Herself Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Awww! Sorry for not getting back to you earlier; was on vacation and without i-net access whatsoever. I did recieve the full version of the picture via e-mail, thank you once again, it was awesome of you.

lyc Featured By Owner Aug 16, 2006

ah k, no problem

Sepha Featured By Owner Aug 1, 2006

That's so crazy freakin' wicked awesome.

!!!

lyc Featured By Owner Aug 2, 2006

thanks

trystianity Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2006

Awesome, the fine details look amazing... I also like black on white, looks good.

I think it might need some better antialiasing though.

That's insane.

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2006

it's ever so subtly not b&w btw (had enough of that working on the sequel

). this is something i've been experimenting with lately to give symmetrical images an ever-so-slight feeling of asymmetry. i might have gone a bit overboard on 'grow', but i think it works well here (although it's given away in the not-full-view which clearly shows the different brightness and colouring etc).

trystianity Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2006

Oh, off-black. I like it.

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Wonderful! I can see why you called it Architecture when I do the full view.

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2006

thanks

the preview never does any of my over-sized renders justice... i've been thinking about making two polls: should i submit smaller images, and would anyone you know (γνώθι σεαυτόν

possibly buy an outrageously detailed print of them?

parrotdolphin Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

Yeah, do the polls, I like polls. Its fun to hear what people say.

greenhybrid Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

mister

did it again! grats

!

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

vielen dank

greenhybrid Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2006

Bitteschoen

LyinRyan Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

This is so beautiful & delicate looking!!

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

your keen eye is very much appreciated

i take far too much pleasure in getting very smooth results and it's really nice when other people notice!

LyinRyan Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

You're very welcome!! This piece is beautiful! Again, great job!!

jsp7707 Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

Very Cool!!!

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

thanks

those are somewhat molested kleinian groups btw (recipe twiddling)

jsp7707 Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

I thought that's what that was. Did you do it in Ultra Fractal...

lyc Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2006

nevaaar! a quick zoom to 200% in photoshop will verify this

i think ultrafractal would struggle with the colours (cf. [link] and [link] more than this piece, since the colouring is muted here so as not to detract from the structure), extremely high resolution rendering and ridiculously high quality antialiasing.

i've integrated grandma's recipe into my program, and eagerly await the results of *Aexion integrating it into his! both of us will be using it in highly unkosher ways, and i'll eventually get to writing a specialised ray tracer for it. the older ray tracers i've written (some examples of which are in my gallery and scraps) are too general purpose to handle tens of millions of spheres effectively unfortunately, so the global illumination will have to be coded from scratch again etc.

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