Xaos Bubbles Tutorial

Made for the Apophysis 2.08 3D hack

This bubble type was taught to me by my friend, ccdigitalfx Further credit goes to penny5775 and also Platinus and Zueuk. It is my hope that this tutorial is able to help everyone interested to be able to understand a bit more of the intricacies of Xaos and bubble transforms.

Remember, make this fractal type your own and change things around! Play with weights, positions, number of transforms and everything else, and come up with something totally unique! Good luck, and I’d love to see what you come up with!

Points of interest:
If you want more of a “dome” effect, substitute Hemisphere for Bubble

When using Truchet, if the bubble isn’t covered, use more pre_blur!

Although not touched on in this tutorial, many of the plugins that can be used have very interesting variables to play around with, like truchet and hexes. Give it a try

Plugins that we have found work with this method (that we’ve found so far, there could be many more!):
Hexes
Crackle
Truchet
Checkers
Checks
Cylinder
Wedge
Pie
Rays2
Epispirial
Boarders
Flower
Separation
Hypersphere
Stripes
Rectangles
Tancos
Circle1
Taurus
Wings
Waves2

This tutorial was beta-tested by my friends karma4ya, Fiery-Fire and SuicideBySafetyPin before release.

All plugins can be found at the following location, due to phoenixkeyblack’s dedication in tracking them all down: phoenixkeyblack.deviantart.com…

I tried my best to avoid only featuring my own fractals in here, to the point where I hunted down some help I hate hogging all the glory, lets spread it around!

The list of different fractals at the bottom is to give you an idea of what is possible using this method, and what different fractalists have been able to accomplish.



Links to the original artwork included in the Tutorial are listed below, give them some love!


Not So Distant Future


Pink Jellies    Crackle Erosion


Making_XYZ    Fireworks_boom    Carnival



Scoped bubble 1


The Map of the Maze    Falling into the Checkers    Shinning Rectangles