Getting Ducks in a Row

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Hey all!

All my recent fractals have been "Duckies" though that may not always be very obvious. I've been meaning to make a journal like this for some time, but since I'm working with duckies almost constantly now, I thought it would be appropriate. This journal needs to start with a gallery feature for misterxz, him being the author of the formulas that would generate Talis type patterns in Ultra Fractal roughly 5 years ago, and also the father of the term 'ducky' as that was the name of the original formulas he'd written. Talis patterns were popular among Fractal Explorer artists, but UF artists were not quite familiar with them yet when misterxz started submitting images he made with his private formula.

A few people including myself, FarDareisMai, monochromatic-stains and trystianity were introduced to these formulas when Elias started sharing the parameters of some of his works in chat.

It was about a year after some of us had submitted works with these formulas that a group of artists took notice and started asking for the formula to be released. With permission from Elias, the parameters were sent to those who asked for them. After a while, new formulas appeared in the public library, new 'ducky' images started popping up with increasing frequency, followed by a tutorial on how to get these patterns in UF and what formulas to use (fav.me/d349fhs) which basically created a hype of 'duckies'. As the word and the formula spread around, Elias' name started disappearing from the credits as most artists and the secondary modifications of Ed Algra's variation of the formula never took notice. I don't think Elias cares much, but I felt personally responsible as I was one of the people who released the formula to those who asked for it (along with FarDareisMai).

So there, I just wanted to give the guy some due credit realizing that the history of this new hype of duckies still remains a little vague to many people. Anyway, here are some more 'duckies' showing the versatility of the formulas (and a shameless plug of my own works as well :paranoid:)...


enjoy! :)

A Collaboration between sedART & petercui
Edited by esintu

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Hey! Just stumbled in here accidentally...thanks for the feature!!