Ailith

Something quite extraordinary has happened, and it's connected to this experiment so I'll say it here.
I have been drawn back to MD for so long even after some awful things happened to me and I had no idea why.
I realised something today and I can't explain too much as it involves personal things, but involves me stopping chasing what I already have.
It's time to let go of MD and I am doing so with immediate effect, with nothing but good feelings and intentions.
I'm off to start taming my inner magic in the real world  
Thank you for everything, Mur. All my love to you and goodbye.

Something quite extraordinary has happened, and it's connected to this experiment so I'll say it here.
I have been drawn back to MD for so long even after some awful things happened to me and I had no idea why.
I realised something today and I can't explain too much as it involves personal things, but involves me stopping chasing what I already have.
It's time to let go of MD and I am doing so with immediate effect, with nothing but good feelings and intentions.
I'm off to start taming my inner magic in the real world  
Thank you for everything, Mur. All my love to you and goodbye.

Something quite extraordinary has happened, and it's connected to this experiment so I'll say it here.
I have been drawn back to MD for so long even after some awful things happened to me and I had no idea why.
I realised something today and I can't explain too much as it involves personal things, but involves me stopping chasing what I already have.
It's time to let go of MD and I am doing so with immediate effect, with nothing but good feelings and intentions.
I'm off to start taming my inner magic in the real world  
Thank you for everything, Mur. All my love to you and goodbye.

Something quite extraordinary has happened, and it's connected to this experiment so I'll say it here.
I have been drawn back to MD for so long even after some awful things happened to me and I had no idea why.
I realised something today and I can't explain too much as it involves personal things, but involves me stopping chasing what I already have.
It's time to let go of MD and I am doing so with immediate effect, with nothing but good feelings and intentions.
I'm off to start taming my inner magic in the real world  
Thank you for everything, Mur. All my love to you and goodbye.

I personally prefer the current mode as the attempted shape keeps form better and the faster motion has very interesting side effects (e.g. sudden creation of separate shapes, interesting shapes on outskirts of main shape that fan out or add to existing shape)

Wings
I like the symmetry in this one. It's the best "circular frame" I got so far. To get this one, I pulled a continuous stream from the bottom and another from the top, with a slight difference in length on the latter. The trick is not to pull all the way to make the streams meet. I left some space between them to create the center shape.

Try starting with the top branches as symetrical and unconnected as possible, down to up movements, this will make them conect later on on themselves, and as fast as you can draw the bottom roots contour. The particles from the brnaches will emerge on the bottom as they exit the top, and will feed the roots contour.
I lack precision to make the bottom roots as nice as you did, but i believe you can do that better. After a while, i also get an angry face , probably the way you look when you see you missed that moment when to make the screenshot.
The creation does not last long at all

For the GOTR badge, I had a few goes:
First I concentrated on the roots and slowly guided the heat to the shape in one movement to achieve this:

Then a few more attempts saw the root shape good but unable to add the trunk or top of the tree:

Then I tried to start at the top left of the trunk, draw down then the roots and then to the top right of the trunk all in one go:

This seemed to work better so had quite a few attempts and this part of the badge can be recreated again and again:



I wait til the shape solidifies more then patiently try to draw the top part of the tree, which of course is the most difficult as there are leaves etc:

This attempt turned into an angry face:

The branches appeared on this one but still can't find solution to leaves: 
This attempt went wrong and the angry face came back:

So here I am at the moment:

Will try and get the top bit better, if anyone can improve on this please post as tbh it's quite a fun challenge.

A first attempt at the GoTR challenge:

 
And a second attempt, using a similar technique:

 
Given that creating flow will eventually devolve into something somewhat less orderly, I found it was useful to capture these images well before they settled. Additionally, touching up abnormalities will tend to create more heat, which will decrease the contrast. Nonetheless, the touch-up of the second image resulted in this, which perhaps has more semblance of the alliance logo.

For the GOTR badge, I had a few goes:
First I concentrated on the roots and slowly guided the heat to the shape in one movement to achieve this:

Then a few more attempts saw the root shape good but unable to add the trunk or top of the tree:

Then I tried to start at the top left of the trunk, draw down then the roots and then to the top right of the trunk all in one go:

This seemed to work better so had quite a few attempts and this part of the badge can be recreated again and again:



I wait til the shape solidifies more then patiently try to draw the top part of the tree, which of course is the most difficult as there are leaves etc:

This attempt turned into an angry face:

The branches appeared on this one but still can't find solution to leaves: 
This attempt went wrong and the angry face came back:

So here I am at the moment:

Will try and get the top bit better, if anyone can improve on this please post as tbh it's quite a fun challenge.

I tried to practice symmetry - a simple shape:

A bunny and a toad fighting  :
Mountains by a river: 
 
 

I've been working on creating this isolated circuit by first placing four unconnected lines, then using single point clicks to weaken the feed in flows. Haven't quite isolated it fully; cancelling out the currents inwards is very difficult.

It's likely that different locations to perform single point clicks will achieve the desired isolation faster. The pattern shown above cancelled almost all of the counter clockwise momentum, but didn't do enough to mitigate the clockwise momentum (unsurprising, since the core circuit is a clockwise momentum)

I created this mask by placing a slow, tiny upwards line in the centre. After letting the heat flow and form it's initial lines, I used a process of clicking in a single location without applying momentum to influence the desire lines, creating the five lines around the top. Particle distribution is uneven because my single point clicks weren't exactly symmetrical, but these subtle manipulations are quite effective and fun to do.

Staring contest

On another attempt I got the left one to get a really nice "eye". Unfortunately the other side looked terrible, so I cut it out:

I tried to practice symmetry - a simple shape:

A bunny and a toad fighting  :
Mountains by a river: 
 
 

Exercises in symmetry, trying to obtain a Chewbecca-ish face:

I tried to practice symmetry - a simple shape:

A bunny and a toad fighting  :
Mountains by a river: 
 
 

Symmetry is somewhat possible, provided one follows the same direction as the existing flow. The above was drawn by merely drawing two (diagonal) figure 8's.


This is my attempt at laminar flow:


This was achieved by moving from the top to the bottom in parallel lines in one direction only. When there are small eddy currents, these can be laminarised by simply drawing over them - again, in the same direction.

Menacing eyes
Reproduction instructions: don't remember exactly 😅. I think perpetual motion makes things harder. I remember starting from the top with a couple pulls towards the bottom, then two small upward pulls on the inner part of the "eyes". After that, I made a lot of little adjustments that I don't remember and let things flow from there.

This is awesome! Here is my submission (for now):
The Heart-Seeking Wasp.

Please welcome the allmighty One-eyed Whatever!
 

Mur and his drachorn

To explain, this is how it starts:

 
You can move your cursor around the heat in any shape or direction and it creates continuos streams of movement:
 

Here is my Toast Lamma

Some stability will also arise from leaving the eddies to flow for some time. It is interesting that there appears to be a set distance between each stream: