Omnis Phylogenesis

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Gallery: Fine Art
Max. Print Size: 40" x 30"

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

-- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

The Creation Process:

 
The creation process took many steps, the first of which was finding the tree shape in the first place. Luckily for me, this is a very common fractal shape and the formulae were not hard to find. What was hard was tweaking the parameters (all in Mandelbulb 3D) into a shape I was happy with. This GIF shows a VERY much simplified representation of how that process took place:

After that, the really hard work began... I had to create various high-res. images in different colours and then import them into Photoshop as different layers... Simple enough:

Next, painstakingly erasing the right bits on the right layers so that the shape looked, in the end, like a tree with branches and leaves. I must have sat for a total of 8 hours or more, slowly erasing different parts, making sure to keep to the pattern I had chosen, especially at the edges of the leaves...:

Lastly, I played around a bit with different Photoshop filters to create and interesting background/border:

And that was that =) ...

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