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It has been almost a month since my last post, but I've been very busy lately (not really) since the semester is almost over and we're entering the exam period. Anyways, here are some fractals I've made this month. Enjoy!

Last Day Of Summer

Here are two brand new fractals. Both are made with Naru's Gnarly Potpourri (tma.ucl) colouring algorithm and KPK formulas (kpk.ufm). Enjoy! :)

Friday

I made this fractal about a week ago, and then I forgot about it. This one was made with 4-D Barnsley Julia (gnd.ufm) formula and Naru's Gnarly Potpourri (tma.ucl) colouring algorithm. Enjoy!

Trains - A Love/Hate Relationship

I love taking the train, I really do. I think it's a very comfortable and lovely way of travelling, and it usually doesn't cost that much, which is a big plus when you're a poor student. What I don't like is that I'm apparently incapable of falling asleep on trains if the journey lasts for more than an hour. In cars, on buses, planes and on short train trips I usually nod off right away, but on long train trips? No way! It really feels like I've had 100 cups of coffee. 

I have taken the night train from Kristiansand to Oslo and back again 4 times now, and not once have I been able to fall asleep. Every single time I have spent the entire 5-6 hours long journey wide awake, completely incapable of falling asleep despite not sleeping during the day before I left. Thankfully the trains have free internet so at least I won't get bored, but it's still a bit annoying that I'm not able to get some sleep.

Right now I'm sitting on the train to Kristiansand, it's 00:57 and I'm arriving around 4:00 am. I'm not tired at all and won't get any sleep until I'm home, which wouldn't be much of a big deal if I didn't have to get up at 7:30. I have lectures at the university until 2 pm. I'm also hungry and I have no food at all, and my back hurts. Fml.

I think I'm just going to leave it here and instead let you feast your eyes upon this fractal I made a while ago. Enjoy!

The Sweetness Of Summer

I started this one out wanting to make something that resembled dandelions, simply because I love those pretty little weeds. Personally I think it looks at least a little bit like dandelion fluff, and the colours are warm and summery, so I'm quite pleased with the result. 

This is a BarnsleyJ DeLuxe (ea.ufm) fractal, coloured with Trapestry-x and Thingamajigs II (tma.ucl).

Ataraxia

From Wikipedia: "Ataraxia (Ἀταραξία "tranquility") is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a lucid state, characterized by freedom from worry or any other preoccupation."

I liked this fractal so much that I made two versions of it. It's a very simple one, just a few layers of BarnsleyJ DeLuxe (ea.ufm) formula coloured with Thingamajigs (tma.ucl). Enjoy! :)

Burst Of Pink

Total Recall J (jrf.ufm) formula coloured with Thin Orbit Traps II (tma.ucl), Ikenaga Orbit Trap Enhanced, Hopalong Orbit Trap Enhanced and Henon Orbit Trap Enhanced from reb.ucl. I also used Lake mapping on one of the layers. Enjoy!

Raspberry Secrets

It has been a while since my last post, but at least it's not entirely because of laziness. I've been busy trying to force myself to study for my exams, which is really hard work because I'm easily distracted. I've managed to do a bit of reading and I'm reasonably sure I won't fail the exam I have next Friday, which is why I ended up making this fractal. I figured I needed a reward after getting up at 8 am on a Saturday to go to the library and read about social problems. Pretty impressive, huh? I guess it would be more impressive if I actually remembered any of the stuff I read, but I'm quite proud of myself anyway.

This is a KPK Treebarney (kpk.ufm) fractal coloured with various algorithms from reb.ucl.

Tropical

Slope (LambdaJulia) formula (dmj.ufm), coloured with Naru's Gnarly Potpourri (tma.ucl) and KPK Squeezed Banana (kpk.ucl). It looks pretty tropical and sweet to me ^^

Trippy Easter Eggs

I.. I don't really know what to say about this one. It's strange-looking and not particularly pretty, but at least it's not as painful to look at as the last fractal I made. This is another Sine-Mod_III(tma.ucl) fractal, with Slope(Cubic Roots-Julia) (reb.ufm). I love Sine-Mod_III, simply because it's so weird and versatile. It works well with pretty much any formula, and I always end up with something funny-looking when I use it. I think I might make a post showing all my Sine-Mod fractals later :)

Anyways, enjoy! Click for a bigger view with lots of delicious details!

Magnet zoom

This is a zoom of a Magnet 1 (Mandelbrot) fractal. I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, although I don't like the ending that much. I guess I could edit it, but right now I'm too lazy. At least the colours turned out nice, changing from blue to pink. Next time I'm playing with this formula, I think I'll zoom in on one of the mandelbrots that appear every now and then. :)

Valentine

I made this one a while ago, but I decided to save it for Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate valentines myself, I just have a habit of making valentines fractals =D

Ducky Revisited J formula (ea.ufm), Naru's Gnarly Potpurri colouring (tma.ucl) and Lake mapping.

Click for a bigger view and lots of gorgeous details!

Hearts

Just a quickie fractal.. Crystal Globe (Mand) formula (sam.ufm) and Trap The Light Fantastic colouring algorithm (tma.ucl).

Gnarly Potpurri

More KPK Moebius fractals! This time with Naru's Gnarly Potpurri from tma.ucl, because gnarls are so much fun to make! I used Hopalong, Gnarl and Driftwood.
Both fractals are really simple, only 5 and 4 layers, and each took less than an hour to make. I should probably try to make something worthy of  posting on DeviantArt and RedBubble soon, but I don't have the patience and inspiration for it at the moment. 

I like this one the most, even though I'm not particularly fond of pink. I think it's mainly because I'm craving candy right now, and this one looks so sweet and sugary! =P

This one just makes me think of confetti and celebrations..

Any Colour You Like

This is my most recent fractal, "Any Colour You Like", made on December 25th. I'm not entirely happy with it, but I do like that it's not my usual style. I also like the colours and textures. I've had so much fun with the Cellular Automata colouring algorithms in mjw.ucl, they are really awesome as textures.
My boyfriend also helped me out a lot with this one, telling me his opinions about the colours and flowers etc. All in all it's a decent fractal and I kind of like it :)

Raspberry Swirl

Here's a little something I finished just a few minutes ago. I've been working on this for 4-5 hours now, and I'm finally happy with it. Originally it was orange, blue and black, but I figured it might look good in pink too.  ^^

Soft, explosive gnarls

Just something I made quite quickly in UF.. I think it took me about 15 minutes to come up with this, and although I kinda like it, I don't think I'll upload it anywhere else. I just wanted to make a gnarl that was good enough to be rendered, and I did. Now I can sleep well tonight xD

Ooo, and my piece "Into the Lake of Ghosts" got ten votes in the gnarl challenge on RedBubble, which was good enough to get in the top ten! Yay! :P