I'm really happy that
Stained Glass

received a Daily Deviation. That's simply my favorite fractal yet, in term of achievement, shapes, colors, feeling...

And it's fun to see that it's so different from my first one
Crash Speed

that was more of a technical challenge for me on the shape because I was exploring 'edge' parameters, where a change of a 1/100000 of a value just change the fractal completely.

Stained Glass was on a known style, all the work was texturing the simple 'LazySusan' flame (which you can find some base parameters in [this] old journal.) In fact it was the first time I had to zoom in to tune all the tranfsorms then zoom out again, I usually don't do this, but it look like working on the details is worth it .



Happy new year to all of you !
One of my resolution will be to try to answer all the messages I have, and even if I skip all the 'thanks' for the comments (avoiding a copy/paste for thousands of messages), I'll try my best to really answer all the questions .

And thanks to all of you who share your work and appreciate mine, I know I'll never have enough time to answer you all but every feedback is warmly welcome.
's,
Eric.



P.S. I noticed the CSS transparency don't work in IE6 (but I work with IE7 and Opera and only have IE6 on an old PC so I only seen this recently) and I'll update the image with proper color as soon as possible .