A lot of people have asked me how I create fractals like these in Apophysis:

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It's very easy to be honest.
Just start with a new blank fractal by clicking the button in the left corner of the editor window. Now you'll have two triangles. Leave the firts triangle just as it is. I don't make any adjustments to that one. I'm only using the second triangle here.

Select the second triangle and flip it horizontal. Then go to the variations tab. Set linear to 0 and disc to 1. After that you'll have to move this triangle just a little out of the centre. Up, down, left, right, it doesn't matter. It has to be near the center somewhere between 0 and 0.1 units but just not excactly at 0,0.

And now the fun part can begin. Start rotating the triangle. Most of the time I start rotating at 5 degrees. As soon as I see something interesting I set the rotation degree to 1 and go back and forward to see if there is something nice in there. And when I do find something interesting I set rotation to 0.1 degree to tweak until it's perfect. Also moving left, right, up and down by 0.01 unit can make it better sometimes.

When your window is zooming in or out very far then you have to adjust the master scale to have a good image of what you are doing. Master scale can be found in the adjust window on the rendering tab. Set it to 80 or 85 to get a full screen view of your fractal.

When you're finished/satisfied render the flame with quality set to at least 2000.


To give you an example, these are the parameters of this flame:


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<xform weight="0.2" color="0.152" symmetry="0.9" linear="1" coefs="1 0 0 1 0 0" />
<xform weight="0.2" color="0.16" symmetry="0.1" disc="1" coefs="-0.453991 0.891007 0.891007 0.453991 0.014542 -0.002802" />
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The rest is up to you. Have fun!