What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Apophysis fractal program to create a Grand Julian style fractal from scratch. The Grand Julian style gets its name from the Julia set formula credited to the French mathematician Gaston Julia. Julian is a corruption of his last name with the addition of the “n” to stand for the numeric variable being applied to the formula. At the end of this tutorial you’ll be able to create a fractal similar to this one. 1. Setting Up the Base Step 1 After opening Apophysis, click the Gradient button in the main toolbar to open up the Gradient Adjustment window. We will now be selecting a color palette with which to work. You may wish to adjust this later but for now we want something that will allow us to see the contrast between the various transforms we will be adding. I have chosen 076_gris.landscape as my gradient. If you would like to follow along exactly with me, please do the same. In addition to this, change the Rotate setting to -14 . This setting simply moves through the gradient to choose a new starting point. We’ve done this since the beginning color of the gradient is rather dark and thus makes the entire base dark and difficult to see. Step 2 Close the Adjustments window and open the Editor from the main toolbar. We first need to clear out the random fractal that was generated and start with a clean canvas. Click New Flame in the top left-hand corner to reset the fractal to a blank state. Step 3 We now have a transform with Linear …
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Fractal Art: How to Create Grand Julians in Apophysis
