Fractalius

I decided to start telling not only about sea life and the underwater world, but also about photo processing. I often experiment with it. Sometimes it's interesting.
Today I would like to tell you about one interesting plugin for Photoshop, which for a long time took a place among my favorite means of art image processing

We often see beautiful and unusual pictures created by programs for building fractals. Following mathematical logic they are built literally from nothing, obeying sets of input parameters. The most interesting and eye-catching images, usually those that remind us something real.

My own way to this started on the other side. About 10 years ago, for the first time I saw a picture in the section Art. It was made on the basis of my favorite underwater theme. She ignored me. And I began to break the Internet in search of something similar. I do not remember how long it took me. Not that it's not enough, but what I wanted to find. It turned out to be a plugin, and it was called fractalius (Fractalius). Having found the first version of the Internet, I only did a few days that I drove out different pictures of him.

I spit it and so and so. The program was damp, and from time to time it fell. Which is not very pleasant when processing large photos, which takes a few minutes. Almost immediately I found the second version. To understand how much I liked it then enough to say that this is the only time in my history of photography processing when I bought the plugin. I did not spare a few dozen dollars.

Since then, from time to time, I return to it and try to slip those or other images. And as before, something turns out interesting, but something is not. But he still makes me happy. This is almost a meditative process of selecting photos and processing parameters. For special cases there is a button in the form of a dice, which each time generates a new random set of parameters. This allows you to look at the photo from a new angle.

For his sake, I keep a separate installation of the old version of the photoshop with this very plugin. I did not get a fresh CS. But when I open the old photoshop, I know for sure what I'll do) Probably if in some utopian-futuristic world robots drew, the result looked something like this. A game of math fractals and a live image, put together.