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ambient-whisper

07-20-2009, 04:00 PM

Hey guys. I am asking on behalf of a friend at work.

there used to be a filter for after effects a long time ago that did this type of stuff

http://www.sgeier.net/fractals/fractals/06/Theta%20Space.jpg

anyone know the name of it? i think i remember that it used to be free too.

if anyone remembers, id love to know :)

cheers.

suztv

07-20-2009, 04:55 PM

I don't know that you can do the exact images like the link you provided - Fractal Effect should do what you want here.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7ae2.html

Iaenic

07-20-2009, 05:30 PM

The closest you can get (for free at least) is AEFlame here (http://www.andrewdavidson.com/aeflame/)

It looks really nifty, but is a MASSIVE render hog. If you have lots of time and a great computer, you can probably do some cool things with it. The settings are a little hard to understand at first but it becomes clear what everything does if you tweak with them for a few hours.

There are also third party applications like Apophysis that can do similar fractal designs, but you have to use scripts to render them out.

ambient-whisper

07-20-2009, 06:57 PM

aeFlame is it!. ive used it before way, way back so i imagine that it would be better by now with todays computers. ( quad cores and stuff?! )

plus, you could always. set up one of your machines to render the background as you work /render other passes elsewhere. :D its not so bad.

anyway thanks guys!.

Iaenic

07-20-2009, 07:30 PM

It seems to run great on my core i7 machine; at least until I tried rendering 900 frames of fractal glowyness at 4k x 3k :D That took a little while to finish...

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