I really enjoyed working with Grappa. I especially liked the blue on white because it was much easier to control than the other 2. My name is the first one I have displayed here. My husband thinks the second one looks like a musical note and I somewhat agree. I love the orange on black very much. Class was a ton of fun and good luck everyone!!
This is a really neat program. I tried to do a search to find different variations but was not successful. I had fun anyway though! This class was great fun and taught me a LOT! I am so happy to have been able to play with programs that I never would have known about otherwise! 
I wish I could say I loved working with fractals, but I can't. I liked it but not as much as apophysis. The designs are kind of cool, but I couldn't download the trial of photoshop again so I have the watermarks. I think these 2 designs are kind of cool. I have more on fotothing and I'll post a couple of more tomorrow. Let me know what you think...
wow! what an amazing program! :D i could mess with apophysis for hours! i still have several images to upload to my fotothing, but these are a couple of my favorite renderings. my husband loved this so much he downloaded it for himself! :P he's been messing with it all night. ;) hope you enjoy it! check it out on my fotothing: reflection10.
What I really like about this class is that everytime I finish my assignments I share them with my husband before posting. We agree on some and disagree on others but it makes class more interesting. Everythime he sees the finished product, he asks me how I got there and I show him. He likes the class. He thinks this is fun, which it really is. Apophysis was much easier than I thought it would be. I saw the video on the syllabus and that was very helpful, otherwise it would've taken me longer to figure stuff out.
For some reason the last five images I posted were much more fun for me than the first five. The two images I have posted here were at some point the Disney Castle and Mariah Carey. They are obviously something else with slight remnants of what they once started out as. This project was more fun for me than the Warhol one because I understood it right from the beginning. 
Sorry I have taken so long in posting my painting machine images, but I took so long on the Warhol project that I fell behind. These are two of the five images I posted that I like the best. I'm doing the action script, but sometimes it doesn't look as good on some images as it does others as you will see with my pumpkin image. I will hopefully post another 5 tomorrow and you can let me know what you think. Can't wait to work on week 5 and six because your images look amazing!
so, i'm having a bit of an issue with getting apophysis to work on my mac. i've gotten suggestions from jerry (thank you!), but unfortunately, the scripts function aren't actually working well with the program. so i'm not able to manipulate it further than the image you see here. i am, however, in the process of downloading vmware fusion, a program that you can install that allows for you to operate your mac AS WELL as have a windows interface in the same environment, where i'm going to attempt to install apophysis and get this going. :( sorry it's taking a bit of time, but everyone's images look so great... i have to get this going the right way!! thanks for understanding. ;)
Time to be working on creating some fractals in Ultrafractal... Download the fully functional program at http://ultrafractal.com You have an unlimited free trial... it is just that we will have to get our images using the print screen button on your keyboard, then go to Photoshop and choose file>new then edit>paste... now you'll have the image to post... If you render to disk, your image will have water marks on it...
Time to get going with fractal art... To get you started, there is a good tutorial here: http://www.arcanefractals.com/apotut_forms.shtml Give it a try... When you see a flame fractal you like, you save it as a jpg image by choosing FLAME>RENDER TO DISK and choose a size of 500 or 600 pixels on the long dimension... As in the tutorial, I set the quality of my render to 35 and played with blur, brightness and ran a spiralize script... I'll get started on a video too... Try doing a search in Google for Apophysis tutorial as well... Go ahead, have fun and remamber, you can't break anything!
Sorry it took me so long to upload the Warhol style images, but I finally got it all figured out. These are the two I like the best, but I posted my five on fotothing. I had a hard time with the Warhol assignment, but at least I know from the blog that I'm not the only one.I can now move on and get caught up with everything else. Bear with me and have fun....
So, some of these actually look like the photos that they started as, and others that I played with do not. I couldn't decide which I liked better...I think I like seeing what the original was a little bit. F2 always turned everything I did dark too, which I guess was from whatever actions I chose...more images on fotothing. This was fun! 
both of these images were created using "the painting machine" technique as explained very wonderfully via the video provided by jerry. thanks so much for that! it was a real help! :) the first image is of a bunch of cacti that i took a photo of in aruba on my honeymoon. the 2nd is of a gerber daisy i received as a gift last february. i will be uploading more images to my fotothing, but found these to be the most "fun" so to speak. :) my husband even found this fun & he's an "avid photoshopper." heh.
