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That is interesting -- Apophysis is a simpler program, but I don't post-process in it either unless I want I different color of background, which is rare. The fractals themselves are enough!

I was explaining this to an admirer of my extended walkthrough of "Beautifully Deadly" -- the ability to work with fractal programs is like having an exceedingly strong arm and millions of paintbrushes, each brush iterating a single line and motion into the texture of a brush stroke, and then iterating brush stroke upon brush stroke millions and billions of times. Not much needs to be added to as profound a process as that!