FRACTAL DISCLAIMER (or... PUTTING SOME ORDER IN THE CHAOS)

1 - All the images are COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. DO NOT use them as you wish, they aren't your property. OK, you have a cool website that would look terrific with MY images as your background images. That's not my problem.

2 - If you are planning to use the images in your website anyway, please do as follows:

a - ask me first, sending me a short email telling me why and where you would like to use the images. Hint: adding a colourful fractal as a background image in your page will make it unreadable.

b - DO NOT link to the images directly in my server. Copy the image that you want to use to your own server and link it from there. Since I've moved to an UNIX server, I can use the magic tricks of the .htaccess file - which means that you can't hotlink to my images. At all. If you want to use one of my images in your site, you have 2 options: read (a) or save the image to your OWN SERVER and link it from there.

c - KEEP ALL THE WATERMARKS OF THE IMAGES VISIBLE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Do not edit, crop, delete, replace them in ANY FORM.

d - place a VISIBLE link somewhere in the same place where the images are, telling where they really came from. It's not your work, remember?

e - If you want to purchase a print of any of these images, also send me an email, telling me which image you want to have printed.

Some considerations:

I am not able to provide you with framed images, due to the expensive shipping rates and the damage that can happen during shipping of the framed images.

You'll be receiving a printed reproduction of the desired image(s) at the specified size you want, and depending on the size chosen, it can be printed in my home printer, a Canon BJC 8200 Photo printer (maximum print size: U.S. Legal - but I'll be doing just A4 prints with it), and if the size chosen is larger than A4 or under specific requests, the images will be sent to a print house for printing using a plotter machine. All prints will be done in glossy paper, unless specified (other kind of media may not be available, like printing on canvas). Prices available upon request, It'll depend on the amount of images and copies, and their sizes. The physical size limit of the plotter is 70cm width if I'm not wrong, so any prints with sizes above this limit won't be possible.

Purchasing a printed version of an image doesn't make you the legal owner of the copyrights to that image. What you'll be buying is a PRINTED REPRODUCTION of an image, not the rights to the image (which can also be acquired, but it's a different matter - and it's also a very different price as well) and to reproduce it as you wish. All the images will be signed and numbered at the back of the prints, considering the total amount of copies planned to be done for each image (1/10 meaning "the first print of a maximum number of printed copies of 10 prints), and they will be dated with the date of print. Not all the images were meant to be printed a million times, neither they will all have a single printed copy and will be destroyed right after the first print is done. I know some artists that do that, but it's not the case. Usually the total number of copies done of an image can be something around 10-20 copies the maximum. Once it reaches the 10th-20th copy, no more copies will be printed off that image, and it will be available only at the website.

There are visible watermarks in almost all images of the site, but the correspondent printed versions won't display these watermarks, it's just used for Internet displaying only.

Some of the original "recipes" (or technically speaking, the "parameter files") of some of these images were lost or don't exist anymore - reasons for that are several, not need to list them here - so a very few number of these images of the site can't be recreated, unless if using the Web version, which intentionally doesn't have a quality meant for printing, specially in higher sizes.

The images known as "flame fractals" (available at the "Black & White and Apophysis" Gallery - like this one) have a technical limitation. They require a lot of CPU processing to be rendered in large sizes, therefore it's impossible to render them (yet) in big sizes. I am starting to make some test renderings and prints with these kind of images, to try to find a reasonable good print size. Right now, the largest I could do was an image with 40cm width x 30 cm height, with a resolution of 150dpi. If it can be resampled to a higher resolution or if it can be enlarged without a quality loss, it is impossible to determine, it depends on each image individually.

f - and last but not least: if you are planning to use one of my "trippy images" as your avatar or as a chatroom icon, DON'T DO THAT. Or at least use the DAMN THUMBNAILS. There are thumbnails for ALL the images, that are just 2-3k in size. If you insist in using the original BIG images, don't email the forum/chat moderator complaining about lags. IT'S YOUR FAULT. Ah, and I can find which image is being used, and it'll be replaced with something that will really upset you as I get upset when you don't ASK FIRST. When in doubt, go back to topic #1. Update: with the recent server move, there's no way to link to my images. You'll be surprised.