Welcome to this week's Apophysis Challenge! Voting was all over the place last week. I thank you all for your votes. I'm pretty certain that last week we received the most votes ever in one week. Keep up the great work!

Too many tied for second place to list this week.



A hearty congratulations goes out to ~snupi988 this week for his win! It was a tight race, but he pulled ahead just in the end to take the victory.
          




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Horseshoe II

Way way back in challenge #25, we worked with the horseshoe variation. This week's challenge will be slightly different however. I sincerely apologize to whomever requested this challenge because I deleted your note!

The challenge this week will involved using horseshoe almost exclusively. You will be allowed to use one other variation, once. A real challenge indeed!

• Allowed Variations: Horseshoe + One Other only used once.


• Final Variation Allowed. Same rules.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, May 20 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another week of challenges. Not much new happening here on my end. Planning a big website overhaul in the upcoming month. Complete redesign with new features, new products, new artwork and a new portfolio on the graphic design domain. The blog will also be receiving a much needed face-lift! An often requested feature of a one page checkout will also be implemented on StanRagets.com. It's something I've wanted for a long time, but didn't understand how to implement and it is now a standard feature with my shopping cart software!

The runner up in our challenges for the past week is ~snupi988.



Congratulations on the win ~mahaon!!! :yay:
      




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!



I asked for suggestions in the Aposhack and our next challenge comes to us by way of *piethein21. He has suggested that our next challenge consist of the following variations.

• Bubble


• Spherical


• Preblur

There you have it. No other restrictions for this challenge. I think it's hard enough as is! You are welcome to send suggestions for the challenges via a note.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, May 13 11:59pm (EST)

What lies in store for this week's challenge? No one knows!

Please keep in mind that the rules for the challenge are clearly stated in every journal for your convenience. Additionally I'd like to mention that voting is open for a full week for the entries that are currently on display, and not for the new ones that are coming in for that same week. Early votes before voting begins can be very confusing when I'm also getting last minute ones. So for example, this week we'll be examining and voting on entries from challenge #128. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Our runner up was ~mahaon.



Congratulations *Lia01 on the win of the painting challenge!
  
  





Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.



1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Unpolar

This week's challenge comes by way of a suggestion from *allthenightlong. She has suggested making a fractal that involves the unpolar plugin 2 times or more.

• Maximum Transforms: 5


• Allowed Variations: All (Unpolar Must be used at least on 2 separate transforms with a value of 0.5 or greater).


• Final Transform: Allowed

If you need to grab the unpolar plugin, it's available here.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, May 6 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to this week's Apophysis Challenge! I hope your ready for the more extensive Pushing the Envelope challenge that awaits this week.

Our runner up for challenge #126 is ~innac.



Congratulations *Astrantia01! With lots of votes, you are this week's challenge winner.
    
    




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Pushing the Envelope

This week's challenge involves minimalism.
You must choose a gradient out of the 7 in this pack:
::: Update ::: You can now use as a .ugr and avoid any hassle with the newer versions of Apophysis.
White background required.
Maximum of 6 Transforms.
Choose 2 and only two variations for this challenge.
Final transform allowed. Does not count towards your regular transform limit.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, April 29 11:59pm (EST)

We've had lots and lots of entries for last week's challenge. I'm so glad I don't have to judge these pieces. You all have a lot of work ahead of you for voting this week!

The runner's up for the previous challenge are *Lia01 & *baba49.



Congratulations on the great piece and win *thargor6!
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Painting Tutorial Challenge
It was brought to my attention by Molly (~deepbluerenegade) that the previously posted challenge for this week was already done. I definitely need to get a better system for keeping track of the suggestions and challenges. I have modified this week's challenge to a suggestion given to us by *Lia01. Hopefully we haven't done this one already as well! Thank you for keeping an alert eye and helping me out!



As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, April 23 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to this week's Apophysis Challenge!

We have no runner up for last week's challenge, but we did have a tie for first place.



Congratulations *baba49 on the win!

      

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Congrats to *allthenightlong as well on the great work!

      




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Plugin Crazy

Our challenge this week comes from =deadened-glow.  Her suggestion is to have a set of parameters where only the variation and variables can be tweaked. You cannot resize, move, rotate, or add/subtract any transforms. Color changes are allowed. The parameters are located directly below.

Parameters for Challenge #126
<flame name="Apo3D-120409-1" version="Apophysis 7x Version 15B" size="800 600" center="0.278165113289366 -0.321923466650984" scale="147.043484434073" oversample="1" filter="0.2" quality="5" background="0 0 0" brightness="4" gamma="4" gamma_threshold="0.01" estimator_radius="9" estimator_minimum="0" estimator_curve="0.4" enable_de="0" plugins="" >
   <xform weight="0.5" color="0" linear3D="1" coefs="0 -0.64 0.64 0 0 -1" opacity="1" />
   <xform weight="0.5" color="0" linear3D="1" coefs="1 0 0 1 1 0" opacity="1" />
   <xform weight="0.5" color="0" linear3D="1" coefs="0.5 0 0 0.5 0 0" opacity="1" />
   <xform weight="0.5" color="0" linear3D="1" coefs="0 1 -1 0 -1 0" opacity="1" />
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   </palette>
</flame>

I'm quite excited to see the results from this week's new challenge!!!

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, April 15 11:59pm (EST)

I admit it. That was a really hard challenge last week, even for the Pushing the Envelope series. A big thank you to all of you who gave it a go and put in an entry. We'll get back to you're regularly scheduled program this week.

Our runners up for this week are *baba49 and *allthenightlong.



A big congratulations goes to ~halakimok for his win this week!
      





Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.



1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!



It's been a while since we've had a simple, no frills challenge like we used to in the beginning all of the time. I think the break is most welcome after that crazy challenge from last week.
Please follow the rules carefully for this challenge. Remember that in all of our challenges we want to make the fractal most pleasing to the eye as possible.

• Maximum Transforms: 4


• Rotation: by 90 Degrees only. For all transforms, post, and final.


• Allowed Variations: Falloff2, Foci, FlipY, Fisheye, Farblur


• Final Transform Allowed (Does not count as one of the 4 transforms.)

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, April 8 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another stimulating week of Apophysis challenge! We have quite an interesting Pushing the Envelope challenge coming up this week.

Our runners up who tied for second place this past week are =Lupsiberg & ~Gerda1946.




Congratulations *terforpova on the win!

      




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!



Pushing The Envelope

We have accomplished many challenges in the past where we've worked to emulate something. It may be a certain painter's style, an object in real-life, or other things. This week, we're going to try something a little tricky. I'm not sure how the results will come out, but I'm certain we'll have some entertaining entries to look at.

This week we are going to make a fractal to emulate our favorite website! As crazy as it sounds, I can see our entries being very cool. Bear in mind that you don't have to necessarily duplicate the websites look completely. Capture the feel of the site. Use it's colors. Make it flow just as the site as a whole would. Here's a really nice chance to put your artistic and fractal skills to the test!

No limitations on this week's challenge.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, April 1 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another exciting week of Apophysis Challenges! We certainly went out of the box as you will see from all the crazy fun entries we have below.

Our runners up for this past week tied: =Lupsiberg & ~rsidwell.



Congratulations *Margot1942 on the exciting win!
      




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Endless Flame Tutorial
This week's challenge come's by way of suggestion by *Lia01. She actually suggested the second in the series of tutorials, but it's usually better to start from the bottom and build up. As with the majority of tutorial challenges, there are no additional limits. Learn the style, and then add your personal touch to it!



As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, March 25 11:59pm (EST)

Who else thinks daylight savings time is just dumb???

Welcome to another week of the Apophysis Challenge! Please keep in mind all of the our rules, including the main reason for the challenges: to learn on our own and then from each other. Don't forget to share your params!

Our runner up for the imitation challenge is *allthenightlong.



Congratulations ~grimpotamus. You've created a most excellent piece!
      




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Out of the Box

Literally! Yes, our job this week is to create a literal interpretation of something coming out of a box. First off, we have to create a box of some sort... Then, I'm quite excited to see what everyone has coming out of their box! Silly? Yes, a bit. At the same time, I think this will help us exercise some (possibly) new skills and creativity, especially if you fancy using a bit of xaos.

Just a few quick guidelines for this challenge:

• Minimum of 3 transforms.


• Maximum of 20 transforms.


• Variation Limitations: No julia or derivatives with julia in the name (i.e. julian, juliascope...)

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, March 19 11:59pm (EST)

New CSS   If you see any problems with it, let me know and I'll try to get them fixed for next week.

Our runner up for the Funny Challenge was =Lupsiberg

Before we announce the winner, I have an announcement of my own.




I want to introduce something relatively new to me, but for some of you perhaps old news. Art Cards Editions and Originals (ACEOs). They are a very cool way to invest in artwork without spending a ton of cash. I currently have 3 limited editions of ten available of my some of my most popular fractals. The cards are $7.99 a piece, hand numbered and signed on the back. As with all the artwork on my website, shipping is free in the US. If you are out of the US and you want to buy some cards, please send me a message and I'll get an invoice to you with proper shipping charges, as I believe right now my site will overcharge you on shipping for such small and easily ship-able items. (It's currently set up to handle large packages out of country...go virtuemart and it's poor shipping options!) I'll see what I can do to correct that in the upcoming days. In any case, you can view the cards and get more information about them at my website. I took the extra step of having them gloss coated for extra protection of the artwork and card itself.




Congratulations to *allthenightlong for her win!

      





Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Stained Glass

Our challenge this week comes by way of suggestion from =Lupsiberg. She actually suggested this challenge quite a while back, and I put it into my suggestions folder, and it seems to have been overlooked for a while. I do apologize for that!

As with all tutorial challenges, you need to learn the style exemplified in the tutorial, and then put your own spin on the design. The tutorial is thumbnailed below.


As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, March 12 11:59pm (EST)

New Week = New Fractals!

The runner up in the Lava challenge was ~IDeviant.




Congratulations *FractalDesire on the great win!

  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Imitation

Charles Caleb Colton said "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." This week presents us with our Pushing the Envelope series of challenges. No matter how many cool and new fractals I see, I'm still often drawn back to the originators of Apophysis and their incredible work. This week we're going to try to create something very simililar to this piece by `JoelFaber below.

Your work doesn't have to be exact, but strive to get it as close as possible to the piece.

I'd also like some feedback on this sort of challenge. Like it, hate it? If you have suggestions of other pieces to imitate please send me a note so that they can be included in future versions of Pushing the Envelope.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, March 4th 11:59pm (EST)

We're back with another exciting week of Apophysis Challenge. The voting was fierce last week for the top spot!

Our runner up in the yellow challenge was *Prelkia.



Congratulations ~mario837 on the tough win!
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Funny

Our challenge for this week comes to us by suggestion of *zweeZwyy. She has suggested that we make Funny fractals. I'll leave the interpretation up to you as to what direction you wish to take this challenge. Anything crude or NSFW will be excluded from the challenge. *zweeZwyy has a folder she's set up that includes some fractals you may want to browse through for inspiration: [link] .

In addition to the theme, you must keep your transform count below 6.

Maximum Transforms: 5

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, February 26th 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another great week of the Apophysis Challenge!

Our runner up for the previous week is *Epogh.




~kimsmile came off with a big win this week taking the majority of the votes.
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.



1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Lava

Yes, you've read it correctly. This week we'll be trying to simulate fractal lava. It has so many interesting and unique characteristics. In the movies, fractal math is often used to simulate lava, including in the Star Wars series. I was originally going to include some variation restrictions with this challenge, but then opted not to in order to encourage more creativity and variety.

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, February 19th 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another week of the Apophysis Challenge! Let's jump right in.

Our runner up for this week is *terforpova



Congratulations ~EveBlackwood on the win!
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Yellow

The background color series of challenges has been a great success. We're continuing the tradition with the background color yellow.

• Background Color must be: Red: 225  Green: 225  Blue: 0


• Maximum Transforms: 3


• Variations: No restrictions

As always, have fun and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, February 12th 11:59pm (EST)

Do you think fractals look cool on the computer screen? Of course you do, otherwise I doubt you'd be looking at my artwork or any other fractals on dA! I've been hearing more and more lately about how much cooler my artwork looks hanging on a wall as opposed to on the screen or in a book. At the risk of sounding incredibly vain, I must say that it does look so much better on the wall than on the screen. Part of this is due to the amazing printer I have working with me to bring all of my digital work to birth the real world. This has both its drawbacks (costs) and its benefits (awesome looks, archival and superbly high quality work and materials, ultra sturdy construction, etc.).

As a special thank you to all of my deviantArt family, I am providing you with a discount code to my website. I truly appreciate all the support you have given me by your comments, your watches of my account, your strong support with the Apophysis Challenges and more! To show my appreciation, I'm doing something that I've never done before in providing this discount. I've also changed my website over to provide free shipping on all orders within the contiguous United States. Use the discount code DAROCKS to get a 12% discount on all artwork on my site. Share the code with your family and friends. The code will be available until the posting of the next challenge. As always, if you have any questions or concerns (or if something on my site isn't working right, remember I haven't offered a discount like this before) just send me a note here or from my contact page). Visit StanRagets.com today and don't forget your discount code!

Thank you all for being such an amazing group of people!

Now back to your regularly scheduled program...

The runner up for challenge #114 is ~Ffey




Congratulations *pillemaster on the win. You really ran away with the votes this past week!
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Focus on Apophysis, keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks, no frames)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Bilateral Symmetry
This week's rules are relatively simple. Your fractal must exhibit Bilateral Symmetry. Plain and simple after that crazy clock challenge!
If you want to see Apophysis generate bilateral symmetry, go into your settings then to the "Random" tab. On the left-hand side you should see a "forced symmetry" section. You can select bilateral symmetry from this menu. Click ok. Then press ctrl+b to generate a new random batch.

Let's see what kind of cool fractal art we can come up utilizing bilateral symmetry!

Deadline: Sunday, February 5th 11:59pm (EST)

I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the entries from last week's challenge. Great job everyone! It's wonderful to see so many entries coming in. It also indicates that more and more people are using and enjoying Apophysis, and that's a very good thing.

Our runner up from challenge #113 is =Lupsiberg.



This fractal is stunning. It is no surprise that *Astrantia01 came out the winner in this challenge!
Enjoy a small feature from her gallery.
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Pushing The Envelope Challenge: Turn Back Time

This week's challenge appears deceptively simple. As our pushing the envelope challenge, we are going to attempt to create a clock face in Apophysis. Analog clocks only...no fancy digital ones.

No restrictions on variations or transforms this week.

Deadline: Sunday, January 29th 11:59pm (EST)

What an exciting week of "bluesy" entries! This week the votes were very spread out and we had a tie for first place and a 3-way tie for second place.
The runners up were: *Epogh *allthenightlong & *baba49.



Anu's piece was very well received. Congrats!
  
  


Andreas' piece showed great skill with xaos.
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Bipolar Tutorial

*marthig has suggested a tutorial challenge for us to work on. As with the majority of tutorial challenges, there are no additional rules except that you add your own personal touch to the artwork and that you find it aesthetically pleasing. Here is the tutorial:

Deadline: Sunday, January 22nd 11:59pm (EST)

Welcome to another week of fractal fun! It will be most interesting to see your thoughts on this past week's entries. The variation that Linear alone provides is absolutely stunning!

Our runner up for challenge #111 is ~grimpotamus.



Congratulations ~innac!
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Feeling Blue
A while back we introduced a new type of challenge; forcing the background color to be one specific color for all the fractals. If you were around then and recall, the background color was straight up red. That challenge was very well received, and many requests to continue it were also received. Therefore, this week, we'll be looking at blue backgrounds. The color must be: red=0 green=0 blue=255. There are no other restrictions for this challenge. Let your creativity flow!!!

I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the beautiful and entertaining creations you come up with!

As always, have fun, and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, January 15th 11:59pm (EST)

First off, thank you all for the entries and votes during the past week despite all the extra festivities and action you're seeing. It's great to see such a loyal group of supporters for the challenges!

Heads up as we have a new rule added. Please make sure you read over them this week, and check from time to time that you're complying with them. I appreciate it too, when others bring to my attention things I miss, as it's a big job to keep these challenges running.

Our runner up for this week is *zweeZwyy.




Congratulations to *thargor6 for his first win of the challenges! Here is a small feature of his gallery.
  
  




Voting is simple, and everyone is asked to give your say.
After you have reviewed the entries: choose one that you think held true and exemplified the particular challenge best. Send me a note with that artists name and a link to their fractal. One vote per person, per challenge. Voting ends with the next challenge deadline.


1.) Follow the challenge guidelines.
2.) Entries must be posted here in this journal, before deadline.
3.) Only one entry per artist.
4.) Keep postwork to a minimum (small adjustments/tweaks, watermarks)
5.) Parameters must be made available upon request.
6.) Parameters need to be posted in your entries comments, or in a comment underneath, not on the journal page.
7.) Entries must be new works for the specific challenge and not previously designed or uploaded.
8.) Usage of dc_image plugin is not allowed unless expressly called for in the specific challenge guidelines.
9.) Have fun!!!


Linear

I looked back through the past challenges as I thought for a certainty that we had done a linear only challenge at one point or another, however I could not find one. Therefore, at the request of *TaraRoys we are having a Linear only challenge this week. Your goal this week is to make a fractal that is pleasing to the eye out of only the linear variation.

• Allowed Variations: Linear


• Minimum Transforms: 2


• Maximum Transforms: 120

As always, have fun, and stay thirsty my friends!
Deadline: Sunday, January 8th 11:59pm (EST)