What is "apophysis"

Apophysis \A*poph"y*sis\, n.; pl. -ses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? offshoot, process of a bone, fr. ? to grow from; ? from + ?, ?, to grow.]

1. (Anat.) A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

2. (Bot.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
   --Gray.

n. 1 (context anatomy English) A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; A protuberance on a bone. 2 (context geology English) A branch of a dike or vein

1. n. (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

2. (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or part such as the process of a vertebra

3. [also: apophyses (pl)]

Apophysis is an open source fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.

Apophysis has many features for creating and editing fractal flames, including an editor which allows one to directly edit the transforms by manipulating triangles, a mutations window, which applies random edits to the triangles, an adjust window, which allows the adjustment of coloring and location of the image. It also provides a scripting language with direct access to most of the components of the fractal, which allows for effects such as the animations seen in Electric Sheep, which are also fractal flames. Users can export fractalflames to other fractal flame rendering programs, such as FLAM3.

There is a separate version of Apophysis that has support for 3D. There are numerous clones, ports, and forks of it.

Apophysis may refer to:

• A bony tubercle (anatomy)
• Apophysis (spider), an outgrowth of the exoskeleton in spiders and other arachnids
• Apophysis (software), a fractal flame generating program for Microsoft Windows