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i put this in the fractal art category, though it's only tangentially related: the "nebula" density field is in fact a very complex fractal transformation, with only a few iterations.

here is the program that produces it (quickly hacked together 32bit version, it's slow as hell): [link]

you may need to install this, and it may fail if you don't use an english version of windows (also untested on vista): [link]

normally i try to not "arbitrarily" (seems to me) rotate my original pictures after i've rendered them, but i've made an(other) exception. i guess i don't understand art :| any comments on whether or not landscape is better?

as for what it's doing, that's long and technical; if anyone cares you can just email, and probably if you do you already chat with me online :P for example my friends ~greenhybrid and ~Darnal are both writing 2d ray tracers (i pimp again my mouldy old articles: [link] and [link])
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*timemit Feb 7, 2012  Student General Artist
soft
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~Nickmeister Jan 28, 2012
yo, I was just looking at this again... seriously its so good. Its like, multiple density fluid/cloudy/ sedimenty and just.. its so amazing. yep. I don't mean to impose, but make more of this stuff, or tell me how to make it :D
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=sharilynn1999 Sep 26, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
have to say this... dont forget to feed your pet!! haha nice image tho! :D
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*lyc Sep 27, 2010
:giggle: so many galaxies that need feeding!
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~Nickmeister Dec 6, 2009
this looks like a really amazing effect, I tried following the volume_scatter.zip link but it was broken :\
Looks excellent really, I haven't looked into anything 2D ray tracers before
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*lyc Dec 6, 2009
it's something i started doing on my own, and got a few friends doing, but haven't seen it anywhere else :hmm: it's not especially useful, but it's great fun for playing with optics (eg those dispersion renders etc)
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~Nickmeister Jul 28, 2010
hey man, what kind of software is this exactly, its just that the site is entirely gone and I'm not sure at all what kind of search terms I'd need to put into google to find at least a program which is simmilar. I was thinking, there must be a more well known software which works just with 2D ray tracing and fiddling about with 2D forms and generative drawing etc..
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*lyc Jul 31, 2010
heya nick :) the program is a buggy implementation of 2d volumetric scattering, and yeah my old crappy website is long dead... anyway, i'm not aware of anysuch software unfortunately :(
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~Nickmeister Jul 31, 2010
Ah alright, its a really interesting idea for a program, the effects are great..
I guess stuff like processing/pure data/open frameworks would be sufficient alternatives.
Thanks!
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~Cericle Sep 22, 2009
..quadratikick my ass math hurts so bad..

Ceci est extrème, mon ami!

Reminds me of light bodies we see when our eyes are more receptive to electromagnetics, via tryptomenes and mageic mushrooms.
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