Archive for February, 2007

Back to classical setup: Linear, Sinusoidal, Spherical and Horseshoe with a little touch of PostXForm on Sinusoidal and Horseshoe variations.

I was digging some hd-backups and I found these two SphereFlakes designed during the 2005.
LightWave nostalgia is surrounding all around me!

Click on them for the full-res view.

The LW’s SphereFlake plugin, by Aurora, is available here:
SphereFlake.zip (Right Click Save As)

Instructions:
Basically its a modeler plugin so unzip and add the SphereFlake.p into Modeler like any other plugin.
When you run SphereFlake you will get a modal panel with 2 controls.

Recursion Level – This first control is for controling the degree of recursion. The higher the degree the more levels of spheres that will be created. Careful with this for each new level you will add 9 new spheres for each sphere created from the previous level.

Tesselation Level – This is the tesselation control for the spheres themselves. I use tesselated spheres becuase they use fewer polys to create decent spheres. Although I may change this in a future version to allow you to decide what type of sphere you want to create.

Well thats about it. Like I mentioned above I will be adding alittle more to this plugin so if there is something you’d like to see added let me know and if its not extreme I’ll probably add it in. Again since this is something thats fun to play with but really has no inherent value I can think of I won’t be spending oodles of time on it, afterall I have to get the attractor plugin done.

Back to the double swirls; this one is a directional one due to the interaction of sinusoidal and spherical variations.

Directional Flow

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.2

An old style swirl with some inner detail.

Dispersion

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.2

Everyone and everything is orbital respect to someone or something else.
We live in a permanent rotation state.

Orbital

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7

A different swirls approach: single pattern.

Long-lasting

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.2

Just a simple diversion from that swirls setup I’m currently studying.

Pentacle

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.2

My friend Linda Parker is exposing her quilting designs at “Art from the heart” exhibition.

Art from the heart
February 9th

Please join us for a group collection of intimate works by:
Thomas Chvilicek, J.M.Cooper, Sherry Jonckheere, Joyce McCarten,
Linda Parker, Aaron Schuerr, A.L. Swanson, Cathy Weber and Jackson Wood.

Meet the artists and enjoy an exciting evening of world class art—only a Walking Mall away.
Good friends, good cheer & great art!

Opening Reception: Friday, February 9th, from 6 to 9pm.
a.l. swanson gallery
46 South Last Chance Gulch Helena,
Montana 406-443-3342

Another swirls one done using an ES compatible setup.

A Flock of Swirls

Design and Rendering: Apophysis 2.05 beta2

Bitter-End

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta2 – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.2

Swirls-Space [3]

Design and Rendering: Apophysis 2.05 beta

Swirls-Space [4]

Design and Rendering: Apophysis 2.05 beta

Flam3 2.7.2 Final by Scott Draves and Erik Reckase

Features List:
Use isaac random number generator to avoid differences between mac/pc/linux.
use multiple threads to take advantage of multiple CPUs or cores.
new variations: disc2, Arch, Tangent, Square, Rays, Blade, Secant, Twintrian, Cross.
fixed bug reading hex color format – must remove n prior to start of colors if present.
use EPS in spiral, hyperbolic and spherical to eliminate black spots.
fix numbering of disc2, change parameter to estimate_bounding_box.
made blur kernel type templatable.
removed extraneous ‘enabled=”1″‘ in writing out final xform information (no longer needed).
Release 2.7.2