Two roll-outs of a fractal

I was playing around to keep busy while I had a few spare minutes and created these two variations:

Butterfly Implications

The Butterfly Implications title derives from Chaos Theory.

In and Out of the Wormhole

The In and Out of the Wormhole title derives from one of the implications of General Relativity and considerations involving black holes and time travel.

The Making of "Strange Mood"

Image basis for original sound used in making "Strange Mood"

The background for how my previously posted "Strange Mood" music was created is in this following sequence.

I selected an old fractal print of mine (see above) done in 2003.   I do not recall the program I used for this.  I selected this image not for its visual quality but for its simplicity and smooth gradations of pixels.  It did have some water texturing brought in to it so it is a slightly post-processed fractal.  The main point I guess is that this image was already the product of algorithms in which iterations through formulas created the source of the visual pattern.  I then placed this image in the i2sm (Image to Sweet Music) program.  This freeware uses algorithms again to read in the pixels of the image to output text-based music in the midi format.  I selected a non-percussion instrument to allow for smoother transitions.  I brought this midi file into Anvil Studio and set my final midi instrument choices and re-saved it as midi.  I then used the 'free midi to mp3 converter' to convert the file from midi to mp3 so that it was in an actual, but condensed audio file.  I then opened this mp3 file in Paul"s Extreme Stretch and set the stretch to about 8% and saved it out to a wav file (only export format available).  These are always very big so I always reconvert them back to an mp3 and erase the wav file from my hard drive to save space.  But first there was some further editing to do.  I opened the wav file in Creative Wave Studio and I removed what I thought was a too extensive beginning section, I normalized the sound, and I put in an echo effect and faded it in and out.  I then exported it as an mp3 as the final audio you can now hear.

Then I looked through my more current images and selected my "Dark Mirror" image.  I brought this image into Paint Shop Pro and placed the Title text on it and saved it as well.  I placed both images into Windows Movie Maker as the only 2 slides of a slideshow.  I brought in the final mp3 audio and put it on its track.  I changed the last slide's (non-text version) timing to match with the end of the soundtrack and saved it out as a wmv file.  I then uploaded this to YouTube.  Let me know if you have any questions regarding this process.

Strange Mood

I recently composed Strange Mood.  I selected my print, Dark Mirror, as its cover image.

The Sound of Thinking

I drew this abstract

and then used it as the basis for the ambient sound (12 minutes in length) below:


The Sound of Thinking by Smudgefactor

Remote Rest Stop Featured

"Remote Rest Stop" was featured in the RedBubble group:  "Sci-Fi Featured"

The Home of the Ancient Ones

This is a digital watercolor, post-processed version of a photo I took of the Anasazi cliff dwelling at the Montezuma National Monument in Arizona.  I clipped/cropped out this section from the photo and processed it using the freeware FotoSketcher as a water color rendition, after adjusting the parameters to my taste.  I then edited out some areas to clean it up.  Since I am not at all good with the traditional watercolor media, I was rather pleased with the way this came out.

Remote Rest Stop

I finished this print today.
http://www.zazzle.com/remote_rest_stop_poster-228892278098422834