At first it seemed evil. The Toad connection didn’t help either. Now I’m just curious to know why he gave it such a name.<\/p>\n
It’s one of those chop-up\/multi-lens distortion effects. It doesn’t alter the color and has only two sliders, but it can be extremely creative.<\/p>\n
After using it for a couple hours, you will have trouble readjusting to the non-chopped, real world. Unless you’re a house fly. I think this is what the world looks like to a house fly.<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nThat’s what I thought of the moment I made this… Can I still call it a fractal? Maybe I’ve gone too far. I’m the first to admit it.<\/p>\n
“Kurtz got off the boat. He quit the whole scene.”<\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll just refer to it as “Crystal.8bf”. Couldn’t he have called it “Betty’s Crystal”?<\/p>\n
While I’m on the topic of unique labelling for menus and parameters, I ought to mention another interesting set of filters I’ve found by someone called “Kangaroo”. One filter has four sliders for adjustment, labelled: “does something” “not sure” “can’t say” and “I forgot”. Another has three sliders named: “don’t know” “don’t care” and “leave me alone”.<\/p>\n
Sometimes when it’s late and I’ve been on the computer too long, I start to give senseless names to images when I’m saving them, like “Fuludoo” or “Fugunoofoo”. So maybe Ilyich and Kangaroo just ran out of names.<\/p>\n
Using the sliders allows one to fragment and repeat the image in interesting ways. Instead of creating a single distorted image, you can create a series of images that are clear but have a distorted arrangement.<\/p>\n
Go ahead, pet the fractal, he won’t bite<\/i><\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nHoney, where are the kids? Didn’t you tell them they could go swimming?<\/i><\/p>\n
“His mind is rational, but his soul is insane”<\/p>\n
What started off as a cheap and gimmicky effect began to become a powerful artistic tool once I began to see what it did best and began to combine it with the India Ink filter by Flaming Pear. On its own, the crystal filter looks too fake like a cheap digital trick. But treated with the patterns of India Ink, it jumps into a whole new category of creative effects.<\/p>\n
I think that’s one of the secrets to digital creativity: synergy -digital recombination -frankensteining. Or to put it another way: harmonizing -taking hydrogen and oxygen and making water.
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