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Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Blue Temple by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqlO3REjtEk

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Spheres Academy by digithalie (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTSkS0Abas4

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Etched by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2iRzbvamY

103 Viewings as of 12/21/14 Featured 12/21/14 in Art Universe Featured 12/23/14 in Digital Art At Its Best Featured 1/11/15 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. Hang in there to the end of this video for a very cute and happy result: youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyxzW6wBsw !http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/221/3/0/a_twist_on_things_by_undeadacademy-d7udtkv.jpg! youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiQVR3TllI8

Featured 11/10/14 in Art Universe Featured 11/12/14 in Digital Abstracts & Patterns Featured 11/16/14 in Tuesday Afternoon Featured 11/16/14 in Fractal Abstracts A treasure chest of sparkling, beautiful gems may be worth millions of dollars, but the love of one's soulmate is infinitely more valuable. Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Spheres Academy by digithalie (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9208a5YUgok

Featured 10/26/14 in Art Universe Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from 140418_14 by Ciokkolata (see below). Scale up, other adjustments and final render in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. A steel MandelTurkey can't fly any better than the real ones, but at least they won't die if they are dropped out of a helicopter as in this classic episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati"... youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNh5W491l3M

One of the great challenges of future deep space travel, beyond the technological hurdles of cost-effective, high-speed propulsion, will be the difficulty in traveling for long periods in space, trying to sleep without conventional day-night cycles in an alien environment. If you thought the "red-eye from LA to NY" was bad, wait 'til you try the red-eye to Vega Five! Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Untitled by Ciokkolata (see below). Scale up, other adjustments and final render in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONCY0xnefAE

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Waiting by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. This "view" made me think of what it might look like to stand on top of the Seattle Space Needle on a clear day and look over the Puget Sound; that in turn reminded me that Jessica Alba's character in the TV series Dark Angel used to sit and ponder on top of the Space Needle...which led me to this unused bit of soundtrack: youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrcjUrg_XQ

Featured 4/4/15 in Bryce and Beyond Look carefully and you will see a transition around the bottom of the blue sphere from glassy textures and reflections in the foreground (and the blue sphere) to a textured metallic effect elsewhere, hence the title. Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Swirls in Spheres by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6_M3yCgqs

For viewing my works on RedBubble over three-quarters of a million times in the past four years, I just want to "thank you for being such a lovely audience!" Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Smooth-Pong844 by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLTsRhdoLY

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Locked by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeqZLgSFxbk

Featured 11/23/14 in Fractal Paradise Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from More Curls by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Safety Net by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. If there is truly beauty in simplicity, then this is simply beautiful: youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRzgUuyX1c

Featured 11/19/14 in One's Mind's Eye Featured 11/23/14 in Art Universe Featured 12/3/14 in Tuesday Afternoon Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQZQ86jJHg

Featured 1/11/15 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Waiting by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftEpuxUo1E Technical notes: no. 3 Overhead view g2049

Featured 3/6/15 in Fractal Abstracts Created using Apophysis 7x.15b based on parameters from Dangerous Beauty from Outer Space by eReSaW (see below). Additional work, scale up and final render in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgAHZB40sT4

Featured 1/6/15 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 1/8/15 in Art in Math Featured 1/9/15 in Abstract/Surreal Art Here, the Moon, re-imagined in feminine (see below) colors, speaks without words, at once expressing a full range of emotions ranging from ecstasy to bitter grief. Her only sound, a muffled moan projected into the silent void of space... "Grant Lewi, in Astrology for the Millions, offered the most evocative description of the Moon when he wrote the following: "When you "know what you mean but you can't say it," it is your Moon that knows it and your Sun that can't say it. "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" are the thoughts of your Moon's nature. The wordless ecstasy, the mute sorrow, the secret dream, the esoteric pictu...

Featured 12/28/14 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 4/16/15 in Globes, Spheres and Curves They say "a rolling stone gathers no moss", but for these rolling stones, maybe it is time to gather "no mas". Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from JuliaSuperCubeBallance by Hal Tenney (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. Roberto Duran says he never said No Mas youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQX7lRLv6A

Featured 2/11/15 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 3/27/15 in Back In Black Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ9KCUjbmPo youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqIvy4CkVUs Tech notes: DAB 2 7 15b from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages

Featured 1/1/15 in Eye & Heart for Art Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from HappyBirthdaydark-beam by Undead-Academy (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CaiWxKYBo

Featured 2/16/15 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 2/17/15 in Creative, Talented and Unknown Created primarily in Mandelbulb3D version 1.8.9 with my own parameters including equations DodecahedronIFS and Amazing Box. Images combined, scale up and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzCMWL7DOY Be sure to see the whole Amazing Dodecas series, beginning with: M3D: Amazing Dodecas #1 (UF0634) by barrowda 11 15 Dodecahedron Amazing Box

565 Viewings as of 3/23/15 Featured 2/22/15 in Creation Featured 3/1/15 in Fractal Abstracts Inspired by the recent success (see below) of climbers Kevin Jorgeson, 30, of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Tommy Caldwell, 36, of Colorado, to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite National Park's granite monolith, El Capitan. As there may be no real place on earth more difficult for them to climb, I decided to imagine a new challenge for them: the Gnomeland wall of Mt. Mandelbulb. Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. Tech notes: DAB 2 8 15 from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages http://videos.usatoday.net/Bright...

Featured 2/18/15 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 2/22/15 in Crosses, Crafts & Collectibles Featured 2/26/15 in Art Universe Created primarily in Mandelbulb3D starting with parameters from Illusion Pentagram by fraterchaos by using formula HelixIFS, enhanced in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. Recorded 52 years ago in Paris, enjoy a few moments of the incredible smoothness of Duke Ellington: youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4MPBgXMQ4 Tech notes: 2/15/15 from Heavy Metal Pretzel

Featured 2/24/15 in Art & Dis(ease) Featured 3/6/15 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 4/29/15 in In One's Mind's Eye Created primarily in Mandelbulb3D 1.8.9 starting with parameters from Somewhere else by Theli_at (see below). Color adjustments, scale up and final render in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KSOeLXIzo Tech notes: 2 14 15 from Somewhere else by Theli_at tweak DE

Featured 5/3/15 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 5/6/15 in Art Universe Image created in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from The Joys of Mathematics by baddad (see below). Other modifications and final render in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJPbMjsIXMs

Featured 5/6/15 in Art Universe Created in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Ballrooms of Mars by Len1 (see below). Additional work done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEtYhbuLIxg

Created in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Metallic Shapes VII by Mario837 (see below). Additional work done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. Title inspired by this Sci Fi classic film: youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voW0RiNTbGI

Featured 8/31/15 in Art Universe Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhkFizV7CA Tech notes:7 3 15b from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy

Featured 9/6/2015 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 9/8/2015 in Fractal Combinations Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8, including the use of polar coordinates distort function. Best if viewed full screen. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxdDwbUowA Tech notes: DAB 7 3 15 from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages map 1

Featured 9/20/15 in Fractal Abstracts Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Somewhere else by Theli_at (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPq9p559II Tech notes:7 22 15 from Somewhere else by Theli_at

Featured 12/1/15 in Far Out Digital Art Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Far Reaches by Len1 (see below). Scale up/final render done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZYfldOzEXg tech notes: 9 22 15 from Far Reaches by Len1~

Featured 8/23/15 in Fractal Abstracts Featured 8/31/15 in Art Universe Featured 10/5/15 in A Fractal Energy Passion Created in Apophysis 7x15 from the tutorial The Making of Breach by Xyrus02 (Georg Kiehne) on dA which ran last year in Apophysis Tutorial Fun group A revisit to this tutorial, this time with further adjustments to the Xaos values in Tx1, with spherical and bubble in Fx. Apo colors initially created with gradient 287 (on 6 30 15). Color adjustments, background addition, and scale up in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_v_i_HsSk

Featured 8/24/15 in Back in Black Featured 8/28/15 in Fractal Paradise Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v.1.8.9 starting with parameters from Somewhere in Gnomeland by mcimages (see below) then modified in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed full screen. Another title inspired by a favorite poem of my youth: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberw...

Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy (see below). Additional work, including scale up and final render, in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SccXYKUbQ9k Tech notes: 7 3 15 from A Twist on Things by Undead-Academy

Featured 12/16/15 in Crosses, Crafts and Collectibles Created in Mandelbulb 3D v.1.8.9 ("M3D") starting with parameters from Far Reaches by Len1 (see below). Scale up/final render done in GIMP v.2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyXO_UOiLo tech notes: 10 8 15 from Far Reaches by Len1~

Created initially in Mandelbulb3D v. 1.8.9 starting from parameters in The Collective Brain by dA's mcimages which started as: Scale up, layer blending and final render in GIMP v2.8. Best if viewed larger. youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Oi43EsQNU Tech notes: 8 29 15b from The Collective Brain mcimages~