These instructions are so far from scientific or mathematical they will fail to make your head spin. These tips
are just a method for randomly playing with fractals and getting some pretty patterns to use with a kaleidoscoping
tool - ending up with tea bag tiles. It's all about the cards, isn't it? :)
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1. When you start Tierazon up it looks like this. |
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2. First thing you want to do is select Window from
the menu and then change the size. I generally use Custom- 500 x 500. |
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3. One filter I have found to give pleasing results is 44.)
Diamonds. |
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4. After Diamonds I got this. Next tip is to zoom in on a
likely looking area of the image. Just click at the top left corner of the
section you like and drag - the box will appear like this.
5. Then click the magnifying glass. |
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6. Already we have something looking a bit interesting. |
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7. So let's save it and have a play with kaleidoscoping.
Tierazon always saves as bitmaps so I just save as JPG when I start
playing in Paintshop Pro. |
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8. I'm sure everyone has their own favourite kaleidoscoping
software. |
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9. So with a short play you can end up with a new tile (or
10). |
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10. Okay, so now we're bored with that image. Let's try
something different.
Go to Draw in the Tierazon menu and pick some other formula. |
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11. Here's a busy one.Drag a selection square on it
somewhere and zoom in. |
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12. Looking promising, but maybe too busy to produce
something nice in a kaleidoscope. |
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13. Let's zoom in again - somewhere less busy. |
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14. Ahh, that's better. |
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A few tiles made from the one fractal. |
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15. Okay, I picked another formula. Sorry, I didn't record
which but it doesn't matter. I did totally start again though - closed the
previous image and did File New, then Draw ??? some other formula. |
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16. Getting tired of the pink and gold, so let's play with
the colors. I randomly went to Color-1 and chose 2.) |
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17. Oh dear, looks like it's gone awol! Don't panic and
don't give up! |
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18. Draw a selection square over most of the image and then
zoom. |
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19. What did I tell you!? Might even be worth playing with!
So save it and jump over to PSP. |
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20. Without much playing we get a couple of new tiles. I
found the muddy brown was coming up a bit too much so let's go back to our
fractal and see what we can do. |
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21. Zoom in on a section with only the colours you like. |
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22. And a couple more tiles from the zoomed section. |
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23. Another option we can try is switching to Julia Mode.
Select a section of the fractal and click the button above the magnifying
glass. |
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24. Parts of the original pattern are visible near the top
centre but we get a whole new perspective on this pattern. |
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25. Let's fiddle with the colours again. This time I'm
picking Color-2 28.) |
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26. Oops, awol again.
27.Use the same technique of selecting most of the image and zooming. |
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28. Interesting again! |
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29. Let's zoom. |
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30. Nice. Fairly busy though. |
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31. Let's pick a little section near the top. |
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32. Well, I think you get the idea ... happy playing! |
