I'm fascinated by the origins of things... Society, human life, life in general, the universe... And despite the obstinate, persistent objections from the orthodox religious, evolution is a fact and we all have our origin in the depths of the oceans. The deep blue was our first home.

Of course, the common ancestors that most life on earth share would have been a much simpler form of life that most of what we see as alive today. Even most bacterial life has evolved to become much more complex than those early days.

In this mandala, I wanted the shapes to be repetitive and simplistic, symolising those origins.

Once I had the shapes, which reminded me very much of coral, I then needed the colours... So I watched a few videos of under water scenes and screenshotted this off of youtube:

This is not my photo. It is a screenshot from this youtube video filmed in the waters of Raine Island

I then imported that into Mandelbulb 3D, the fractal program I use, and used it as a diffuse map to create more than a dozen image, all of them rendered at 7000 x 7000 pixels. (This took a very long time):

Next step was to layer them all in Photoshop and use varying opacities of eraser to bring the coral to life... I considered putting in little fractal fishies but decided against it... The focus here was on simplistic origins and fishies are too complex ;P:

Finally, as with most of my work, the details get quite lost because the original file is so big (7000x7000) so here are some details:

And another Mandala in the bag! ;P I'll be exploring under water themes more, for sure... Such depths of possibility!

Remember too that all my designs are for sale. See my site, Mandelsage.com, for details =) ... And I am open to doing commissions too! How about a mandala based on your personality? ;)

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A few recent posts of mine:
ULOG: Talking Into The Future - 002 - Job Change? | The Mandelsage Challenge 005 - Immortality and Sleep | "Springflake" - Gallery: Motifs
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