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Celtic Knot: Fractal Tutorial

Welcome to my fifth tutorial in this series! Today we're going to make this fractal: As you can see it has elaborate details, I call this one Celtic knot because it somewhat reminds me of one of the knots. Anyways, refer to the earlier sections of this tutorial for basic information. Before we begin, your transforms will not look exactly like mine till you finish the entire fractal, I have messed with the xaos settings in the images below. You won't mess with the xaos settings till the rest of the fractal is formed.

The first step is to create a new blank flame. On the first transform set linear to 0, and Mobius to 1. That's it. As you can see the fractal looks like nothing so far, this won’t really change until the fourth transform.

Create a second transform, leave the linear setting alone. What you need to do here is go to the triangle tab, scale the triangle down three times on a setting of 125. Move this small triangle to the left by one unit. This is how it should look so far:

Duplicate transform 2. Now move this new triangle to the right two times. This is how it should look so far:

On transform four set linear to 0, blur to 0.05, and squarical to 1. Flip this triangle vertically. As you can see the fractal is finally becoming complicated looking:   On transform five set Mobius to 1 and linear to 0. First flip the triangle horizontally, and then flip it vertically. Set the weight to 1. Here is how the transform should look:   For transform six set linear to 0, and rectangles to 1.5. Flip horizontally. Here is how it should look like:   Now for the last transform set linear to -100. Now the next step is messing with the xaos tab. I really can't explain to you what xaos does because I really don't fully understand it myself. I occasionally fiddle with it until I'm happy with the result. Only transforms 1, 4, 5, and 6 will have changes made to their xaos settings. Refer to the images above for the correct settings. Your fractal should look like this:   Remember, this summer I will be releasing the full version of this tutorial.  Inside the full version will be the information on how to make the following fractal:   And many other alternative fractals! If you have any questions feel free to comment.  I'll do my best to answer your questions, thank you and good luck!

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Vesper: A Fractal Tutorial

Vesper   Welcome to my third fractal tutorial for Identity Studio! Today we're going to explore the 3D aspects of Apophysis! The fractal we're covering today is an offshoot of my main fractal tutorial Exploring Apophysis 3D This fractal is for moderate to intermediate users of Apophysis. Thus, I will not cover every little step; you guys should know how to create a blank flame, and how to enable a final transform.

Now let us begin!

Note:  Before we begin, you guys should know that a few of these images might appear a tad bit warped.  This is due to how I'm compressing the dimensions of the images so it'll fit on the page more nicely. 

Go to the adjust window and set the pitch to 75. Set the x position to 0.9, and the y position to 0.74. The adjust window is a grand thing; you can zoom, rotate, use some depth of field, and even change the pitch of the fractal all in one place! You can also do several more things like changing the gradient. On your first transform set linear3d to 0, and set crackle to 0.5. Go to variables and set crackle_cellsize to 0.5, and crackle_distort to 1.   Transform One’s Variations Transform One’s Variables Your image should look like this: Transform one should look like this, see how clear the crackle is? This is also the most versatile of the transforms; you can change the fractal quite a lot with this transform by your choice of variations. Create the second transform, set it to the following: linear3d 0 pre_blur 0.001 pre_ztranslate -0.456 zscale 1 Julian 5 Transform Two’s Variations On the variables make sure they are set to julian_power 3, and julian_dist 1.

Transform Two’s Variables Go the triangle tab, set the rotation angle to 45, and rotate the transform counter clockwise. Make sure the triangle scale is set to 125, click the small triangle icon FOUR times in order to downscale this transform.

This is how the fractal set up should look like. Remember to rotate and downscale this triangle. Your image should look like the following:

This is what your fractal should look like so far, do you still see the crackle? Create the third transform and set it to the following: linear3d 0 zscale 0.421 Julian 0.5 Transform Three’s Variations The variables should be set to julian_power 2, and julian_dist 1.25. Transform Three’s Variables Go to the triangle tab; once more make sure your rotation angle is set to 45. Click the counter clockwise button THREE times. What transform three’s set up should look like. Your image should look like this: This is what your fractal should look like so far. As you can see, the crackle is now topping the towers. Your fractal is also starting to take shape. You can stop here now and have a basic fractal, but why not go even further? On the fourth transform set it to the following: linear3d 0 Bubble 0.01 pre_blur 1 pre_zscale 1 curl3d -5

Transform Four’s variations (bubble setting is not shown) Double check that the following Variables are set correctly: curl3D_cx -0.48750 curl3D_cy 0 curl3D_cz 0 Transform Four’s Variables Go to the triangle tab once more; rotate the triangle 45 degrees counter clockwise. Set the move triangle area to 1.2, and move transform 4 down.

Transform four’s set up should look like this. Your image should look like this: Your fractal should look like this now. The crackle is still there! Enable a final transform and set it to the following: zscale 1 Julian 0.75 Final Transform’s Variations The variables should be set to Julian_power 1, and Julian_dist 2. Final Transform’s Variables Go to the triangle tab and repeat the directions I gave you for triangle four, the final transform should go exactly over transform four. The final transform’s set up should look like this. Your fractal should look like this: What your final fractal should look like! Do you see the crackle? If you use other variations on transform one and you’re lucky, you should be able to see them in the final fractal. Remember, by this summer I shall publish the finished full version of this tutorial.  I will link you guys to it once it is online.  If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them.  Good luck and have fun!