my pet nebulae

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 for example my friends ~greenhybrid and ~Darnal are both writing 2d ray tracers (i pimp again my mouldy old articles: [link] and [link])