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For me , fractals are like panning for gold. ...lol... all i can say is you aren't panning in the right river.
When you open apo and it first renders it's hundred batch...go thru them and find the most ornate ones and then run batch script files on a particular one.( usually i use spiral batch mutation )
And then go through them again and if the parameters set on the script were right and you got lucky then some of the next hundred will look more involved.
Single out one of them and keep open your mutation window ....then as you tug on triangles in the editor and see the results...if you don't like it just UNDO ( an apo users best friend
But before you undo...look at the mutation window thumbs( my slider is usually set around 0.21 ) and if any of the thumbs look kool click on them to check them out....if one looks worth pursuing...then undo a second and save the parameters on the previous one and then reclick the new thumb you like and start tuggin' on triangles again.
That's the growth process. Leap frogging from one find to the next and playing with it till something "happens" ..lol
once something is developing and you think you found gold...save the parameters and start fiddling deeper....often zooming in a bit and focusing on just a portion of the frac yields more interesting end results.
( the more you zoom in the longer it will take to render...)
Sometimes just making subtle adjustments to things like rotation or frequency will drastically change the image.
Fiddle with gamma and brightness for final teaks. Playing with blur and gamma will determine how cloudy or smokey something looks or the opposite, how clear and defined and crisp edges look.
Good luck!