This is my “very quick start” to fractal generation.? Lately a lot of photographers/graphic designers have been creating fractals and I’m definitely one of those.? Half of my last 5 batches (125/250) have been fractals.

Video Tutorial here (no sound): http://niltomil.com/tutorials/frac/index.html

Here’s a quick example of what I do:

1) Start a new fractal.? Duplicate the triangle 4 times and move them out to evenly spaced spots around the center triangle.

2) Set all Linear 3d variations to a value of zero and all Linear to a value of one.

3) Now you can start experimenting on the red triangle (#1).? Whatever you do will be replicated 9 times around you and fading toward the edges so you will get a good idea of what you have done with each variation.

4) I used julian and juliascope to create some cool shapes and an organic looking background.

5) After picking a color scheme press Ctrl+N to get a random variation of colors if it doesn’t automatically generate correctly (sort of a bug fix to push Ctrl N to add gradients)

6) Render it out!

It’s fairly simple to create fracs and you can make them look like almost anything you want.? Play around with different variations one at a time to get an idea what each does.

Here are some of my favorite fractals that I’ve created:

More of my fractals can be found at Shutterstock.? While you can find scripts to do certain things, I always find that playing around by hand lets you learn faster and eventually do MUCH better at fractal creation.? Good luck!? Link me to your favorite fractals in the comments!