Posts Tagged ‘apophysis’

Daniel thought mashing up this with this might be cool. And I think he was right:

One of the new creative toys I’ve been playing around with is Apophysis, a free bit of software that lets you generate some pretty cool fractal-based stuff. Like this:

Apophysis is a program where it’s pretty easy to make some cool-looking stuff right out of the gate – there are some good tutorials to help with the basics – but it’s challenging to master.  And I have in no way mastered it. Depending on your personality it can be addictive playing around with the various dials figuring out ways to achieve interesting effects. I’m one of those guys who could get very addicted, but I’m going to try not to get too caught up in Apophysis because I don’t want one more computer-focused thing to distract me. I am, after all, trying to carve out time to be more creative away from the computer.

I’ll probably share some more of these along the way, though, and if you like one well enough to use as a wallpaper, contact me and I’ll send you one of the appropriate resolution. I make the originals at 1600 pixels wide, so that should cover it.