Variations: Blue Flame

A wavy flower, with a pink-purple-blue shading

When I'm playing around with GIMP, I often find a particular piece, a monomer if you will, that somehow has a lot of potential uses. I can warp it, rotate it, flip it, and more to make "polymers" of greater complexity by using tricks of symmetry and space.

A crab or spider with peacock tails or wings

These four pictures are all variations on a single blue flame, shaped in different ways to create quite distinct results. (In fact, I made around ten, but these are the best and most distinct of them all.)

An icy blue fern-like frond

The flower was made by simple rotation about the center of the picture. The crab-spider required three different kinds of warping for the tails, legs, and center flames. The frond just contains repeatedly scaled down versions of the very same tail. Finally, the butterfly was made with a single different warp, followed by rotations and fun color trickery. :D

A pair of glassy blue butterfly wings