Topic: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Here is a wallpaper I made, and it seems like it would suit #! very well.
We have the original, one with a film-grain blur, and then each of those darker for those who want a more subtle background.
Size is 1680x1234. You can crop to suit your needs, or if its super important (and your heavy with the flattery) i could potentially make it any size you need.

Standard
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8079/78959600.th.jpg
Blurred
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/429/71393689.th.jpg
Standard Dark
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5560/27144434.th.jpg
Blurred Dark
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8924/60563538.th.jpg


Feel free to edit the images to your liking (e.g. adding some #! branding), you can do pretty much anything with it, but please give me credit.
Let me know what you think smile.

just call me...
~FSM~

Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

^ very nice! I can imagine these being very useful, thanks for sharing! smile

Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Go right ahead smile
I think i'll be making more (man, fractals are fun!)
I've always loved black and white too.

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Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Nice work.
I like the 1st and 3rd one smile

Point & Squirt

Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Thanks gutterslob smile

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Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

I'm making some more, but you guys can check out some of my other work on my newly created deviantArt account ....
http://finite-state-machine.deviantart.com/

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Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

^^ I like "Spin" and "Blades of Grass", though I think you should make 2 versions of each (one with and one without the wording)

Always been curious about fractal art, but the only problem is that most of the fractal rendering apps can't seem to render in sizes/dpi suitable enough for large, fine-art prints (at least 24 inch wide, 200-360 ppi)..... why is that?

Point & Squirt

Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Since they aren't entirely for other peoples use, I prefer to title my work. Plus my gallery would be fairly cluttered if I had two copies of every image. Perhaps I will stop with the titles then (at least on the images).

As for your problem with the sizes, you should theoretically be able to render to any size. Memory is a limiting factor, but you can get around that, it'll just be much slower.

Fractal art is really just the manipulation of some mathematical objects. The tricky part is the calculations that must be performed to produce the final result.
The bigger the image you want, the more calculations / more complex in size, and the longer and more memory it will take.

Because of this, I'd never attempt such a size unless I had a lot of time on my hands. On my current computer (2.6Ghz dual core, 3GB ddr2@667Mhz) It takes about 20 minutes to create the images you see on my deviantArt account (minus the photoshop time).

I use Apophysis, if you want to check it out.

One other thing i forgot to mention, because fractals are just a bunch of lines, if you don't take proper precautions, the end quality can be really bad. Often you need to oversample the render (e.g. render it at 2x the size you actually intend it for, if not more), as well as use a certain quality. If you want a 24" image with very high quality, your going to be waiting a veeerrryyy long time.
I did try making an image at 8800x8400 and it crashed (though i was experimenting with some settings), perhaps its because it requested 4028 MB of memory and I only had 2000 some odd available.

Goodluck regardless.

just call me...
~FSM~

Re: Crunchbang Style Wallpaper [4 Variants]

Thanks for the suggestions, blackbinary

I can't recall what fractal app I used at the time, but I tried making a big, HQ image of some random nonsense as a test, and it constantly gave up and crashed every single time >__< .... My comp at the time was a reasonably fast Core2Duo with 6GB RAM, so I wonder if it really was a memory bottleneck or just app instability.

I'll check out Apophysis if I have the time, but I doubt I'll take too much time venturing beyond my comfort zone right now, since work demands need to be met first.

Really appreciate you taking the time to write an explanation, though.

...and you don't have to remove the titles... it's your art which means it's your right to do what you want... I was just sharing an opinion, and I apologize if I made it sound like I was demanding.... I like it either way. smile

Looking forward to more.
Cheers

Point & Squirt