Page 2 of Tutorial #1 for Ultra Fractal

1. Now that we have a nice spiral selected, it's time to apply a coloring formula to enhance it and create a beautiful work of art. A lot of people find it easy and fun to start out with Doodads in the ldm.ucl folder. To select this formula, go to the Outside tab and click on the Browse icon and go to the Public folder. Scroll down until you come to ldm.ucl. Click Open and select Doodads and click Open again.

2. At this point you need to replace the gradient with a Grayscale in the Standard folder for gradients. To do this, push F4 and then right click on the gradient. Click on Replace and select Grayscale. You can make a folder of your own gradients that you create or collect. There are no copyrights on gradients, but if you publish your fractal, it is considerate and ethical to say where you obtained the gradient if it is not your own. I always start out with a grayscale to make it easier to find nice shapes.

3. After you open the gradient, you will need to do some tweaking to get a nice well defined spiral. On the Outside Tab change the Transfer Function to Sqt and set the Color Density to 2. Move the gradient slider to the left until you get an image that looks like this.

4. Now it is time to start playing with the Doodad parameters to find a nice shape. This is where the explore mode of UF4.03 really becomes useful. First go to the Trap Mode and Flavor and start changing these parameters to see the difference they make. You will get a huge variety of shapes and elements to enhance your spiral. I ended up at Fractal Mode 6 and Flavor B. Scroll down to Trap Addend and right click on this value and click on Explore. This is where the real fun begins. Move the curser all around the explore grid to see the changes. If you find one you like, left click to select it. I ended up with a value of 0.4602

5. Next, scroll down to Functions and start playing with the different parameters in that section. I like the look I get when I change the Real function to flip so I add a layer (push the icon to the right of the layer) to save these settings, and then continue exploring. With this new layer, I scroll back up to the Twist 1 parameters under Morph. Right click and start exploring to see the changes this parameter makes. When you find something you like, left click to select it, and then compare the change with the original layer by clicking this layer off and on.

6. When you find a nice shape, duplicate this layer and then scroll back down to the Functions and change the Final Trap function to conj. As you can see, this process can go on and on and you can end up with a large collection of many layers of nice fractal shapes to play with. If you scroll through all the options you have in Doodads, you can see there are many other parameters to play with. I only changed a few and you can see the nice spirals we ended up with. You can continue exploring and duplicating each layer that you want to keep. Click on file and then Save Parameters. Name this fractal Tutorial_1b to keep all the nice shapes you found.. I stopped after finding this third variation and the UPR is below so that you can check all the settings.

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