May your heart rise from the ashes and be reborn again this Valentine's Day.

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EDIT: Parameters are at the bottom.

My entry to the Apophysis Weekly Theme Challenge #7 ([link]) is finally finished!

This render (as some already know) took me a long time of tweaking to finish--originally, it had been one lackluster fractal, but then the render crashed, so I tweaked it again. I spent over seventeen hours in Apophysis getting the shape right, all told. And this is a pure render (except for the frame and text, lol), so I had to torture it out of Apo.

I'm excited about this piece, and I hope you guys will be too.

Tools used: Apophysis 2.05 beta 2, Photoshop for frame and text

Hope you guys enjoy!

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I give permission for ~ChipNoir to use this in an animation.

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EDIT 4/13/13: As promised, parameters. Please make substantive changes before submitting any images made with them--i.e. don't just zoom in/change color and render. Tweak it! Please also let me know when you've used the params by linking to your work in a comment on this piece. Further wishes re: commercial use can be found here: [link]

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