Spherical Gold Stars

Here is a possible entry into the current Challenge 6 being held by the group - Let's Get Spherical.  Here's the link to the journal about the Challenge:  apo-weekly-challenge.deviantar…

Made in Apophysis 7X v14 and postwork done in PhotoPlus X5.

Here are the rules:

Challenge No 6 - Let's Get Spherical

This week's fractals should predominantly feature the spherical variation:

• The spherical variation must appear on at least 2 transforms
• Maximum number of transforms : 5
• All variations are allowed

Here are the params:
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</flame>

Update:  This fractal was animated by Joey Gamberisi (:iconCapstoned) using Apophymator.  Here is the thumb to the deviation page for the animation which also has the YouTube link for the video.  Thank you, Joey!  It's wonderful.  And the music is perfect.


Here's the YouTube link: youtu.be/WRAQWhxv0E8

Full view for detail.

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