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04:30:37 PM <Platinus> Well, alright. To understand Xaos, you need to understand how Apophysis makes fractals to begin with.
04:31:40 PM <Platinus> Apophysis uses our beloved triangles to input numbers into formulas based on where they are placed on the Cartesian

plane
04:32:18 PM <Platinus> Each triangle holds a certain formula and where it gets places, the numbers from the x and y points are placed into

their specific points in the formula

04:32:36 PM <Platinus> These answers are then put through to the other triangles on the grid

04:32:51 PM <Platinus> and then back to the original triangle where they came from

04:33:37 PM <Platinus> The point is, the triangles talk to each other

04:34:34 PM <Platinus> And we can manipulate this communication between these three sided beauties to make them do our bidding

04:35:37 PM <Platinus> There are several ways you can think of the Xaos tab

04:36:05 PM <Platinus> You can use it as a binary on and off switch

04:36:17 PM <Platinus> deciding which transforms directly speak to other transforms

04:36:37 PM <Platinus> You can use it as a weight multiplier

04:36:55 PM <Platinus> telling a transform how much it send to other transforms, how much it receives from others

04:38:13 PM <Platinus> You can use it like how iDeviant does it, and you can pool transforms to some strange hierarchy and have some really

neat patterns

04:39:43 PM <Xyrus02> T1 says "hi T2" normally. if you set "View To" on T1 and the value for T2 at the same place to "0" you "forbid" T1

saying "hi" to T2 :D
04:40:41 PM <Xyrus02> depending on high the number on the xaos tab is, you can tell T1 to speak louder or quieter to T2. Zero means "stfu T1"
04:40:48 PM <Xyrus02> *how high


04:42:41 PM <Platinus> So, let's start with some ways I use Xaos

04:42:54 PM <Platinus> and I've used it in various ways to get some neat things going on

04:43:08 PM <Platinus> So, first, open up your Apo, don't care which

04:43:08 PM <Platinus> So, first, open up your Apo, don't care which
04:43:22 PM <Platinus> , start a blank flame, and make yourself a preblurred bubble transform

04:44:48 PM <Platinus> Just add a second transform for now, leave it as linear, it's not really important right now

04:45:14 PM <Platinus> then, go back to t1, go to the xaos tab, and add a linked transform after

04:46:18 PM <Platinus> You should now have three transforms

04:46:48 PM <Platinus> And if you look at the xaos tab on number 1 and set your view (right click>view as) to view as TO
04:47:01 PM <Platinus> you will see that Transform number 1 is only going to transform number 3

04:48:06 PM <Platinus> If you move transform 3 around, right now, you'll notice that it works very much like the post transform of transform

number 1

04:49:35 PM <Platinus> Now, if you move t2, it's just like the beginnings of how I make spirals using linear
04:49:39 PM <Platinus> or tiling
04:49:43 PM <Platinus> you just make a row of bubbles
04:50:06 PM <Platinus> so, go ahead and move t2 over by 1 unit
04:50:15 PM <Platinus> to the right just for consistency

04:51:46 PM <Platinus> now, here's where the fun really begins
04:51:49 PM <Platinus> go to t3
04:51:56 PM <Platinus> turn off linear (set it to zero)
04:51:57 PM <tickingcounterparts> :eager: :D
04:52:02 PM <Platinus> and turn on
04:52:03 PM <Platinus> Hmm
04:52:06 PM <Platinus> Sinusoidal
04:52:13 PM <Platinus> Set Sinusoidal to 1

04:52:50 PM <Platinus> What you should now see is some bubbles that are starting to get flattened out, like the sides are being pushed in

04:53:50 PM <Platinus> What is happening is t1 is being transfered directly through only t3

04:54:20 PM <Platinus> and so, the points plotted from t1 are passed through t3 as well, and then iterated through t2


04:56:11 PM <Platinus> And in all reality, that's all you need to know to start of really learning about this tab
04:56:40 PM <Platinus> is that transforms can go specifically through other transforms and not the ones you don't want them to

04:57:10 PM <Platinus> Now, if you add any other transforms after you've linked one, it's going to go through every other transform

04:57:27 PM <Platinus> and you have to manually go into the xaos tab and delete what you don't want them to go to
04:57:38 PM <Platinus> but this is why I had you make that first linear transform
04:57:40 PM <Platinus> t2
04:57:54 PM <Platinus> because you can copy this and the regular bubbles won't show up anywhere
04:58:00 PM <Platinus> only the square bubbles
thanks `Platinus
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