Account Update

My account will be switching over to a "regular" account in a few days.  Due to this, and some other reasons, my account usage will be officially different.  I will only upload new works for portfolio and print purposes.  (I've paid for a print account and I'm going to use it.)  I might upload some resources for GIMP or CSS in the future, or I might decide to put those resources someplace else, like Blogger or LiveJournal.  Depends on the circumstances.  Journal updates will be more business-oriented and not personal.

The basic gist here is that I am no longer participating in the dA community .  I have neither the time nor the patience to continue doing so.  This means that I won't respond to comments in the future and comments will be disabled where possible.  In the past I dearly loved being on dA, but as time progresses, the more bitter I become.  I also dislike strangers demanding I do or explain something about a resource I've uploaded.  That has bothered me quite a bit to the point where I stopped coming to dA.  I think "frustration" sums up very well how I've felt this past year.

I do really want to thank everyone who has given me support up until now.  This is no doubt a little abrupt, because I haven't publicly talked about it before (I'm still not saying specifics).  I am amazed by some of the encouragement I have been given.  On the other hand, I never believed I would see 100k, but yet here I am wondering why I've reached this level and I'm still not a good enough fractalist, or a good enough CSS designer, or a good enough resource provider, etc.  In the end, I'm only above mediocre. What I have done is not good enough and I'm tired of trying really hard and getting nowhere.  So, I will go try to find that thing I am good at somewhere else and hopefully whatever that is will take me farther than where I have gone at dA.

Much love to everyone and continue on coding/gimping/fractaling.

~Claire

At the moment, I am no longer taking any notes regarding CSS/Apophysis/etc. help.  I have much going on in my personal life and can no longer assist dA members with these issues.  

Thank you for understanding.

–noun Mathematics, Physics.
a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions.

[Origin: < F fractale, equiv. to L frāct(us) broken, uneven (see fractus) + -ale -al2; term introduced by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (born 1924) in 1975]

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