A Simple Little Experiment

After putting fractals on hold while I went to Disney twice last week with my sister, and for my husband's visit last weekend, I started doodling around a bit this evening. Although there is really nothing special about the image, I still felt like I should share it.



This is just a quick two-layer that struck me because it seems like one layer is slightly magnifying the other. Funny thing is that the 'magnifier' is created on a single layer using Combine (PolyLine) and that which looks magnified is on a separate layer, blend mode normal and with transparency.

After all that, I see a pretty cool optical illusion.

For anyone else who is testing for Rob, here's the upr:

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More UF Trap Shape (beta)

I've been going through the example files for Rob's code; not really studying them, just famiarizing myself with the daunting number of fantastic shapes he has created to demonstrate the capabilities of his code.

I have been pretty good about not digressing from my intended goal of assembling offline documentation for myself using OneNote, at least until now. I came across a layer that begged me to apply one of my favorite starter gradients to it. Actually, it became two layers with two gradients, one that is a slight variation of the other.

MadGrad_0027 {
gradient:
title="MadGrad_0027" smooth=yes index=45 color=16228 index=59
color=2035718 index=90 color=16773093 index=113 color=8966616
index=130 color=3488048
opacity:
smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
}



MadGrad_0028 {
gradient:
title="MadGrad_0028" smooth=yes index=45 color=16228 index=59
color=2035718 index=90 color=16773093 index=113 color=8966616
index=130 color=3488048 index=150 color=2046383
opacity:
smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
}

Here is the image:

UF Trap Shape (beta)

Robert Bunney, of UF list fame, has written an amzing amount of code that, I believe, can generate any shape you can imagine. In any event, while beta testing, I came up with a couple of images I thought I would share.

Upgrading & Distractions

I've just about completed the upgrade from 32-bit Win 7 to 64-bit Win 7 on my laptop. The upgrade was pretty straight forward, and I only forgot to back up one thing... the files that hold the layer and other presets in Ultra Fractal. I also use UF on my desktop, so at least some of the presets are there and now moved to the laptop. Alas, I am missing the the preset folder layers I created on the laptop. I've been doing a lot of stuff on my laptop in anticipation of upgrading the workstation whose backup would entail far more intensive scrutiny. Too many distractions over the past few months to even consider tackling that job.

What distractions? Well, there was leaving Yale, permanently, taking a month-long road trip, buying a house in Florida, moving to said house in Florida and then unpacking and setting up that house for living.

I've come to realize that we seem to buy houses where the former owner liked to plant and the outdoors has been left to run wild. That is one thing in Connecticut, bad but not impossible, then there is Florida where it's a jungle out there.

I've got a container garden going in the back now. Containers contain things, and in Florida, plant containment is a good thing. It does entail watering said garden daily but the result is worth it.

Another distraction to the upgrade process is Ultra Fractal itself. Once I installed the Ultra Fractal software, I felt compelled to try it out. You know, had to make sure it worked, and all that. Well I hadn't done anything with imported images for a while, so I had to edit an image I downloaded from the Dover samplers website and see what I could do.

461394-051---Butterflies.png

To download the image, click on the image to open it full size, then right-click on that image and save. I mention this because I want to send the upr to the UF mailing list.

The above image resulted in

I thought this was a little on the dark side, so I kept on going. I realized that the new image needed a central detail, so I went back to my Butterflies image and found just the detail I needed.

461394-051-Butterfly-Detail.png

Again, to download the image, click to open full size, then right-click and save.

The lighter result is

So you see, there are lots of distractions all around me.

Issues with LiveJournal

I've had a blog on LiveJournal for years. I mean YEARS! Today when I tried to log in, I got a message that my username was unknown. Yes, I contacted support, but that doesn't help me now.

If I can access that blog and copy everything out of it, I am going to be PO'd bigtime!