Hi Kenku, that is a rather troubling claim you are making against me. I have never heard of you, never seen your fractals, and additionally, I have the original files for Chaotica, Flame Painter, and Amberlight that I used to generate each of the fractals in this pack (and the precursor). I can say with great certainty that I have not used anyone else's fractals in my packs, including yours.
52 days ago(-1)
As I mention my originals were purged from my account there, however I also use a different name on that website. I had purged them from there a few years ago now after an art theft and then a 2nd purge due to AI scraping issues. However that doesn't change that I can recognize 2 pieces included in your pack. I unfortunately no longer have backups as the images were made 8-12 years ago.
I have not taken art from any Deviant Art site or any artist on any site, period. Name the two pieces you feel are stolen and I will make a video of me opening each fractal in Chaotica or Amberlight, navigate around the fractal, and show you my 5000x5000px original render of each of those fractals. I did not see, use, scrape, or otherwise have any knowledge of you or your work. The fractals in this pack and the previous one were created mostly in Chaotica, a few in Amberlight, and modded/tweaked in Photoshop.
It is possible that we arrived at similar looking fractals, that is hardly impossible since there are a lot of transforms that look good in combination or produce similar results. I have not stolen your fractals, or even seen your fractals.
Here, have a look at the directory of source originals for this second volume of Aethereal Planes. I have every single fractal here in both its Chaotica file and the full-sized 5000x5000px render. They are a product of my work.
51 days ago(-1)
The image is not enlarging for me however I can still make them out from the image in the 3rd row the 2nd and 3rd images from the left, given their age they couldn't have been scraped. Apologies if I made it sound as though you did that specifically. Given the nature of fractals similarities make sense as it is mostly math but those 2 specifically look too similar and only those.
They might look similar to you, I haven't seen your fractals so I can't be any judge of that. What I can be a judge of is whether they are fractals I generated, right on my computer, which they very much are. Here is a video where I have opened one of the fractals you picked out in Chaotica, I navigate around it, change some random parameters, and have a whole different look at the end. This would literally be impossible to do if I had taken the image off of wherever you had it displayed. If I really have to do this for the other one, I will, though I'd prefer not to waste the hour or so of it takes to let it all render out to begin with, create the video, edit, upload etc.
I did not take your fractals.