Apophysis Tutorial: Understand What You're Doing

Turn annotations on to see instructions. There is no sound. Follow along in Apophysis, because some things are hard to see in the video. 480p is much better.

When I first started working with Apophysis a few years ago, I had no idea what I was doing, even after following a few tutorials, so I learned by trial and error and lots of randomly moving around the 'magic' triangles. I hope that after watching this you'll be able to move beyond that stage more quickly than I did. You may not suddenly know what to do to make an amazing fractal, but when you are editing a fractal you should be able to use the tools at your disposal without changing everything one at a time, hoping for a certain result.

The topics covered:
1. Manipulating shapes
2. Xaos and weight
3. Color
4. The adjust window
...basically, everything that took me a decent amount of time to figure out. Notable topics I do not cover include rendering, saving, and scripting. I also assume that you can figure out how to move, rotate, and scale the triangles, and other basics. There are many other good tutorials on the web for these. However, I go click-by-click through the tutorial.

I don't know the inner workings of Apophysis so my interpretations of what things do may be overly simplistic.

I used Apophysis 2.09 for this tutorial, a free download at sourceforge.net

Thanks to Zueuk for inspiration, thanks to the creators of Apophysis, and above all thanks to God for giving me the ability to make beautiful stuff.

My dA: zyndara.deviantart.com/