Spherical Spirals

Golden Cave
How to use

Click the copy to clipboard button at the top right of the code below (looks like two squares overlaid), then go to JWildfire, and click the From Clipboard button. The flame will now be ready to play with. Remember to always link to any flame you tweak if you post your images online.

Another entry for the Spherical game, based off the flame pack that came with Rick Sidwell’s excellent Spherical tutorial.

Not much to say here except, I like starting with  blur3d then adding a transform with a spherical followed by a split border in this case. Then a julia transform and a final hypertile to get everything repeated across the screen.

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3 thoughts on “Spherical Spirals”

    • Thanks 🙂 the header is mine, the background done by Michael Hobbs, I’m really spoilt for choice with backgrounds. I might try and change them depending on which section you’re in. Good to see you back.

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