Jess,
Having looked at your "360" background JPEG image on
your Yahoo personal page (per private email):
1) Just saving it off the web, pulling it into GIMP
and doing a
Filters => Map => Make Seamless
worked wonderfully for that particular
fractal art image, you might be happy just to do
that. You'll need to change your web page to use
what you produce as a page background, though, right
now on my wide screen, what you have doesn't
automatically extend itself to the right, just makes
one copy downward. You should be able to find a
setting to fix that so it tiles over however much
screen space your reader is using to browse your web
page.
2) You might instead be better off to start fresh.
You can make lots more fractal images easily using
the GIMP: make a new image of the size you want, and
then use the
Filters => Render => Fractal Explorer
tool, followed by the
Filters => Map => Make Seamless
tool. I made a seamless image in a few seconds with
the "Spider" choice of fractals that would work
splendidly for that Yahoo personal webpage
background, you'll be able to do the same.
Saving the images as JPEG format degrades the
quality a little (sometimes a lot), but cuts the
file size down a lot, and sites like your Yahoo
one are often pretty limited as to how much
bandwidth your site can use for people to browse
your web page, or how much disk space all your
files together can use. Saving the images as PNG
format preserves all the quality at the cost of
much larger file sizes for complex images.
3) The web is just full of free and commercial tools
you can download for generating fractal images.
Spending some time "shopping" for those
(I used Google Image Search and "seamless
fractal tile generator" (without the quotes) as
a search term)
might be another approach.
While looking for tools this way to help you, I
found a free one called "Iterated Fractal Explorer"
that generates very simple black and white fractals,
that I downloaded and am using to do much, much
simpler fractals than the one on your web page,
fractals that can then be used to make more complex
images:
http://www.downloadsofts.com/download/Graphic-Apps/Editors/IFS-Lab-download-details.html
My first IFS success, built from a four edged
"chevron" without interior fill, chevron edges then
matched with overlaps of possibly different edges
of six smaller copies of itself, plus one copy
flying in formation behind the master chevron, once
rendered into a fractal and captured using GIMP's
File => Acquire => Screenshot
capability, got turned into six copies, on six
different layers, of itself in GIMP, with the black
background trimmed away for each layer and an
overall black background put behind them instead.
Each layer's fractal copy was then reflected,
shifted and/or rotated various places on the image
including wrapped around the edges.
Each fractal copy was then filled with colors or
patterns.
Last, each fractal copy was made 75% opaque so that
the copies behind it partially showed through.
The resulting seamless (by design) wallpaper is
quite attractive in a math geek sort of way.
HTH
xanthian.
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