Hello James, I'm not a very active member of this group, but I share your enthusiasm for Chaoscope and have been using it in ways very similar to those you speak of. I am mostly a photographer, but I have truly enjoyed combining fractal generated images with my work. This link will get you to my gallery at Deviant Art. http://bobthecat.deviantart.com/gallery/ There are about 270 graphics in it so you will have to dig around, but nearly half utilize fractal imagery. I stopped by your web site. I am in Sacramento, Natomas area. Take care, Carl --- James Kimball <jamesstudiogallery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just joined the mailing list because I stumbled > onto a link for > Chaosope and its just the program I've wanted for so > many years dating > back to the old Amiga computer days when I was > learning 3D. Wow, I'm > having so much fun and seeing so many applications > for it in my own > art. > > Some questions or feature requests if they can't be > answered... > > 1. How can I make my own gradients? Documentation > makes a note that > its compatible with some older fractal program... I > don't have this > program. In the future could it make/save gradients > similar to > photoshop? As an artist I would like to work with > specific palettes. > > 2. Can it do depth shading? (the lines further > back being darker) > > 3. Can it output an alpha channel? (It seems I can > render a gas pass > (quite unlike pass gas), and use that as a way to > cut an alpha but its > a PITA. > > 4. Is there any hope for animation? a. key frame > the camera (or > object) to fly through/around/etc. b. change the > attractor variables > over time. c. cycle the palette through the object > (while also doing > animations a and b of course. :-) ) I was an > interface designer for a > number of years (Play Inc) and might be able to > offer some help. > > > These days I'm the surfacing and lighting guy at a > 3D animation > company, and I do my own art and photography on the > side. My use for > Chaoscope will be blending 3D and photography with > these very cool 3D > swooshes and "volumes" of Chaoscope. > > I look forward to spending more time with this > software and trying out > these ideas I'm brewing... I look forward to your > responses too as > they will help me to manifest these ideas into > reality. > > Hats off to the programmers for creating something > so fun and useful. > Thank you. > > > > James > > eMail: JamesStudioGallery@xxxxxxxxx > Web: www.JamesStudioGallery.com > ====================================================== > The Chaoscope mailing-list > Archives : > //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope > Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org > ====================================================== > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ====================================================== The Chaoscope mailing-list Archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org ======================================================