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*Pharmagician:iconPharmagician:

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Oxidizer

Journal Entry: Wed Apr 30, 2008, 10:11 PM
  • Listening to: Domingo in Flying Dutchman; Gil Evans
  • Reading: too little time at the moment
  • Watching: no TV in the house
  • Playing: if I were playing I wouldn't be here!
  • Eating: too much
  • Drinking: G&T
First few days on dA

It's been a very interesting few days - I joined dA properly, having lurked and watched for a few months, and have just started uploading things into the gallery. I mainly use Oxidizer, a Mac-only fractal flame application written by David Burnett, and which you can get here: [link]

The latest version is 0.5 and has a transform editor which makes it very similar to Apophysis - the app still demands a bit of work for you to get your head around it, but it's worth persevering IMHO. Most of what I have done so far has used scripts provided generously by Ralf Flicker, who has a nice site at [link]
and there's a pukka Oxidizer community over at Scott Chitwood's site at Rampant Mac: [link]

Thanks to all who have looked and faved and watched so far - I'll keep posting when the day job doesn't keep me out of the house for too long!

Devious Information

  • Current Age: no longer 51 on the outside, but still 15 on the inside
  • Current Residence: US
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: increasing uncontrollably
  • Interests: God, Art and the Cosmos; food; music
  • Favourite movie: Providence, Fire Walk with Me, Once Upon A Time in America, and about 25 others
  • Favourite band or musician: Joni Mitchell, Björk, David Sylvian, Ellington, Wagner, Harold Budd
  • Favourite genre of music: Good music
  • Favourite artist: Turner, El Greco, Klee, Kandinsky, others depending on the weather
  • Favourite poet or writer: Patrick White
  • Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams, mostly, others depending on what I've eaten
  • Operating System: Mac OSX
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod classic
  • Shell of choice: The ones you should leave on a Pacific island beach
  • Wallpaper of choice: own creations
  • Skin of choice: the one I was given, lightly tanned
  • Favourite game: bézique
  • Favourite gaming platform: what's that?
  • Favourite cartoon character: Yogi Bear
  • Personal Quote: Lose yourself and find each other
  • Tools of the Trade: Oxidizer, Apo-J, UF, Apo, Fractal Domains, XD, quadrium

Devious Comments

=Kabuchan:iconKabuchan: 9 hours 52 minutes ago
Thank you for coming by my gallery and for the :+fav: ... :D

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~2BORN02B:icon2BORN02B: 3 days 23 hours ago
I forgot about the whole Boot Camp thing with the Mac! LOL. Too much to contemplate, never enough time!

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Mark :flagcanada:

Carpe Diem Surrealus! (Seize the fish!)

My original music: [link]
*Pharmagician:iconPharmagician: 4 days 9 hours ago
Thank you! I'm dabbling the other way, just beginning to experiment a little more with Apo, after months with Oxidizer. Using Apo on my Mac via Boot Camp. I would also like to get more into the Quadrium software for Mac that Zooreka is doing such good things with, but I don't have enough time either!
~2BORN02B:icon2BORN02B: 4 days 12 hours ago
1,000 thanks for adding me to your friends list. Your support is greatly appreciated.

I see that you are a Mac user - I have one as well (and a PC), but have yet to dabble into any of the fractal software that is available for it. You have a couple of really nice flames using these programs - now my interest is up! Alas, I really don't have the time to look into it yet.

Take care!!

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Mark :flagcanada:

Carpe Diem Surrealus! (Seize the fish!)

My original music: [link]
*IDeviant:iconIDeviant: 4 days 19 hours ago
Thanks for the :+devwatch: - it's much appreciated :D And I could swear I've come across that handle before, somewhere... :D

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PadleyWood

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*Pharmagician:iconPharmagician: 5 days 50 minutes ago
Thanks for your nice comments on Still Life and Galea - you're a master, so I'm very glad you like them!

I've tried all the quadriums but I just haven't had the time and patience to get anything out of them. I've loved what you have been able to do with q2. q prime crashes on me all the time (iMac 2.8GHz, Leopard) and I simply haven't spent enough time with them to learn properly how to use them. I'm also interested in Apo-J but can't get scripts to run on that properly - my own ignorance, I'm almost certain...

I've been using Oxidizer for five months or so and have really now just about got my head around it. I use 0.4.3 which is pretty stable - but 0.5 has a transform editor and a colour map editor, which makes it much more attractive, although it too crashes far too often. I would love to be able to translate Apo scripts into Lua for Oxidizer, and that is going to be a big project in my (limited!) spare time.

Keep up the wonderful q2 work!
*globalpuffer:iconglobalpuffer: 5 days 6 hours ago
Aww, close enough. :D

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*globalpuffer:iconglobalpuffer: 5 days 6 hours ago
Thank you so much for the :+fav:'s on 'Morrigan's Poem' and 'Bad Junk' and for the :+devwatch: :D

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Some people are like slinkies, not really good for anything, but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs. :lol:
*Zooreka:iconZooreka: 5 days 10 hours ago
Hi - I wanted to say hi and a big thanks for the watch.... Saw your name on the Quadrium Boards... I must admit that with all the problems I had with all 3 apps.. Flame Q and Q-Prime, I am loving the stuff I am managing to get out of the latter 2 at present... Prime alas continues to give issues on tiger but I did find it performed much better on Leo though I hadhuge graphics problem with lLeo and had to downgrade to tiger again!)

Hope you don't have too many issues and would love to see what you can turn out with it!!!

Thanks again for your interest in my work

- Zoo

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`Lovely-Demented:iconLovely-Demented: 5 days 13 hours ago
Hello! :wave:

Thank you so much for the :+fav: on my fractal!

Have a great weekend! :hug:

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~lmarm:iconlmarm: 6 days 22 hours ago
Hi, Thanks for the :+devwatch:!

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`xero-sama:iconxero-sama: May 8, 2008, 4:50:32 AM
Thank you!

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Thank Best Regards

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~Xantipa2:iconXantipa2: May 7, 2008, 10:58:12 AM
Thanks very much for :+fav:..and for the watch too..:kiss:..I am so glad you like my work..:hug:
=Kabuchan:iconKabuchan: May 5, 2008, 10:21:30 PM
Thank you so much for the watch ... :hug:s

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Kabu

Laugh your head off! And then put it back on again ... :)
*Pharmagician:iconPharmagician: May 5, 2008, 4:19:05 PM
thank you for the adds! much appreciated... :thanks:
*frchblndy:iconfrchblndy: May 5, 2008, 9:25:13 AM
Thanks for the :+devwatch:!

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=faded-ink:iconfaded-ink: May 5, 2008, 8:05:08 AM
Thanks so much for the :+fav: on Royality. I really appreciate it. :)

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*winklepickers:iconwinklepickers: May 5, 2008, 6:56:10 AM
Thank you for the fave and the watch. :)

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=MothersHeart:iconMothersHeart: May 2, 2008, 6:50:07 PM Mood: Joy
:w00t: Thanks for all the wonderful :+fav:s to my work!

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~ibon16:iconibon16: May 2, 2008, 1:08:59 PM
thanks a lot for the :+fav: and :+devwatch:

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*LaPurr:iconLaPurr: May 1, 2008, 8:31:57 PM
Thanks for the watch:)

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*Pharmagician:iconPharmagician: May 1, 2008, 5:30:26 AM
I wish I had got its name right when I said how much I like it! :ashamed:
*globalpuffer:iconglobalpuffer: Apr 30, 2008, 11:17:38 PM
:lol: Thank you. Glad you like that one. :D

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*MzKitty45601:iconMzKitty45601: Apr 30, 2008, 12:41:53 PM
Thank you for the fav on "Fan Dance" it's greatly appreciated :hug:

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