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Title: Very Basic Color Maps for Chaoscope
Post by: Sockratease on November 26, 2006, 09:52:57 AM
Hi.

Don't laugh at the new guy for being self taught!

I play a lot with Chaoscope.

I like the Gas and Liquid rendering modes, but think the color maps work backwards, so I sort of inverted them.  I prefer a black background to a colored one.

This is NOT complex stuff.

Just switched 2 rows of 3 numbers (the whole of the "map").

The trick was to change at least one of the Zeros to 1's or for some reason the background showed white.

If anyone cares, I can post these.  They're incredibly basic, but my first customization!

Now I can make things like this:


(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/lump1.jpg)


do things like this


(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/lump2.jpg)


Title: Re: Very Basic Color Maps for Chaoscope
Post by: heneganj on November 26, 2006, 10:24:22 PM
Wow that looks like a crazy version of a Klein Bottle!


Title: Re: Very Basic Color Maps for Chaoscope
Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on November 30, 2006, 03:31:14 AM
If you need some utilities to create .MAP files for Chaoscope (or several other fractal generators that can uses these), then try some of the following:

"Make Map"   by Ronald E. Barnett
    http://www.HiddenDimension.com/ (http://www.hiddendimension.com/)

"FIntMap"      by Raymond Filiatreault
  http://www.Nahee.com/Software/+FIntMap/ (http://www.Nahee.com/Software/+FIntMap/)

"MapMaker"   by Jack A. Orman
  http://www.Nahee.com/spanky/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/utils/mapmaker.zip (http://www.Nahee.com/spanky/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/utils/mapmaker.zip)

"Automatic Fractal MAP Generator" (AFMP)   by Paolo Guagliumi
  http://members.tripod.com/softwork/map/ (http://members.tripod.com/softwork/map/)
  http://softwork.webjump.com/ (http://softwork.webjump.com/)


If you just want to download and use .MAP files already created by others, try these out:
    http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/FractInt/MAP_s.zip (http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/FractInt/MAP_s.zip)
 


Title: Re: Very Basic Color Maps for Chaoscope
Post by: Sockratease on November 30, 2006, 03:57:35 AM
I may just give one of those a shot.

I'm enjoying figuring out the format of the simple little text files it uses, but it might be nice to have a "cheat" on hand too.

Thanks!


Title: Re: Very Basic Color Maps for Chaoscope
Post by: GFWorld on December 05, 2006, 08:04:14 PM
Paul wrote >If you need some utilities to create MAP files for Chaoscope ...
Thanks Paul for the link - I have never been at this place  :)
Margit
Little note for Jason , as  Mat realized already :-) Roll Eyes Smiley does not * roll * :-)))
Margit