STEP 1: The APOPHYSIS program(s)
STEP 2: Getting Started
STEP THREE: CREATION TRIANGLES
STEP 4: Transformation Triangles
STEP 5: Add/Delete/Duplicate Triangles
STEP 6: Adjust Options - Camera
STEP 7: Adjust Options - Render
STEP 8: Adjust Options - Gradient
STEP 9: Proper Rendering
STEP 10: Rendering & Final Image

All right, you have the program open with an image you like, as described HERE.  Now it is time to start the creation
process, and the first place we'll do that is with the CREATION TRIANGLES.  Click on the option shown below to
begin editing the image you have chosen.

Once clicked on, you will see another window open up, and it will show you the Creation Triangle's current positions.
These triangles and their positions are what determine how the current image appears, and playing with them will
greatly change your image.  Each corner on the various triangles shown has been assigned a designation of either,
"X", "Y", or "0".

(ABOVE WE SEE THE ORIGINAL CREATION TRIANGLE WINDOW.  IT SHOWS THE TRIANGLES, AND ALSO HAS A PREVIEW WINDOW IN IT.)

Now there is much "magic" with these triangles!  Learning it is what will make YOU a fractal STAR!  :D

The first thing you should know is that you can "grab" any corner of a triangle.  Place your pointer on a corner, then
left click and hold.  Below we see I have done so on the red triangle's "0".

I can now drag the entire red triangle and reposition it.  Here we see I have moved it down & right from its original
position, and LOOK!!!  The fractal image in the preview window has also changed accordingly!

(GRABBING A TRIANGLE'S "0" POINT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REPOSITION THE ENTIRE TRIANGLE, WITHOUT DISTORTING ITS CURRENT SHAPE)

Now, if you grab and drag an "X" or "Y" corner on any triangle, you JUST move that corner, and NOT the rest
of the triangle.  Below we see what I did with the red triangle when I grabbed the "Y" and gave it a pull!  The
other two corners have remained in place, but I can put the "Y" where ever I please!  LOOK!  Once again, the
preview window has shown the shape change as we "x"periment with these triangles.

(GRABBING A TRIANGLE'S "X" OR "Y" CORNER ALLOWS FOR THE MOVEMENT OF JUST THAT POINT.)

Now grab and move the other triangles that appear here.  Below I moved the yellow triangle and once again
watched the fractal in the preview window "morph" as I did so.  Watching the preview window as you manipulate
the triangles is crucial in this creation process, as well as the future ones to be described here.

(EACH TRIANGLE MOVED OR DISTORTED BY YOU WILL HAVE AN EFFECT ON INDIVIDUAL PARTS OF YOUR FRACTAL DESIGN)

Sometimes it can be difficult to see "x"actly the part of the fractal you are changing with these triangles.  If you
"x"perience this, there is an easy solution.  Just "flatten out" your creation triangle by making it into a very thin
line!  The part of the design it is changing will also become a thin line, as shown below with the green triangle.

(FLATTEN OUT INDIVIDUAL TRIANGLES TO DETERMINE THE AREA THEY ARE EFFECTING, THEN RE"X"PAND THEM TO YOUR LIKING!)

OK, so that's all simple and straight forward!  Playing a bit with these triangles will make you quite comfortable with them.
After a while you will feel like a pro!  ;D

But wait!  There is MORE to triangles than what is "x"plained here!

More on the triangle's magic can be seen HERE in Step Four!