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Title: New to FractalForum
Post by: hsmyers on July 11, 2008, 07:54:50 AM
Hi all,

Just found this forum by happy chance. Always nice to meet fellow fractal fanatics!! I've been a fan since the 80's, wrote some of the earliest commercial fractal programs(FracTools and FracZooms) and too many tear-off experiments too count. Lately I've gotten back to playing again, still find it fascinating. I hail from USA, Boise, Idaho in fact. See you around the forum...

--hsm


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: cKleinhuis on July 11, 2008, 01:28:02 PM
hello and welcome,
you are not the only veteran here ... :D

have un and enjoy the forum !

cheers#
ck
 O0 :dink:


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: Sockratease on July 15, 2008, 05:59:22 PM
Hello and Welcome!

You should consider posting some images from your programs in our Gallery here.  I'd like to see what they look like.

Enjoy the forum...


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: WallyWallWhackr on January 05, 2009, 01:23:07 PM
Hi all,

Just found this forum by happy chance. Always nice to meet fellow fractal fanatics!! I've been a fan since the 80's, wrote some of the earliest commercial fractal programs(FracTools and FracZooms) and too many tear-off experiments too count. Lately I've gotten back to playing again, still find it fascinating. I hail from USA, Boise, Idaho in fact. See you around the forum...

--hsm
Dude!  I was an original purchaser of your work!  What a great application of the art of fractal generation.  I think the per pixel calculation is far beeter and more refined than this bitblt crap of today.  I have been wanting to get your method into a modern pixal array / depth setting.  Are you aware of any current software that has the final resolution that yours had?  I am not dure if folks here even know what I mean, but you stuff had a far greater resolution when zooming in. Maybe I just got bored looking and stopped too soon, but all the stuff I have seen around since your stuff is a bit underwhelming on the final zooms.  Everything looks like a fuzzy approximation, kind of like JPEG compression.  I loved your per pixel, per pixel row iterations. They seem to me to be far more accurate than what I currently see.   I have, however, seen some nice hi res stills, but I have never seen such a result from any software.  Bourbaki was cool. My computer wasted CPU cycles in the best way possible!
  ANYONE in the group can point me to a hi res app?  What have I missed over the years, and greeting to the forum, as I am new. :D :waassup:


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: fractalwizz on January 05, 2009, 02:39:27 PM
Hi. Welcome to the FF.
What I use most often is UF to create my imagry.
I am also in the process of creating a fractal program with all the features of UF, Fx, and Apophysis combined.
I will post those images here when I get the chance.


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: hsmyers on September 08, 2013, 09:12:45 PM
Dude!  I was an original purchaser of your work!  What a great application of the art of fractal generation.  I think the per pixel calculation is far beeter and more refined than this bitblt crap of today.  I have been wanting to get your method into a modern pixal array / depth setting.  Are you aware of any current software that has the final resolution that yours had?  I am not dure if folks here even know what I mean, but you stuff had a far greater resolution when zooming in. Maybe I just got bored looking and stopped too soon, but all the stuff I have seen around since your stuff is a bit underwhelming on the final zooms.  Everything looks like a fuzzy approximation, kind of like JPEG compression.  I loved your per pixel, per pixel row iterations. They seem to me to be far more accurate than what I currently see.   I have, however, seen some nice hi res stills, but I have never seen such a result from any software.  Bourbaki was cool. My computer wasted CPU cycles in the best way possible!
  ANYONE in the group can point me to a hi res app?  What have I missed over the years, and greeting to the forum, as I am new. :D :waassup:

Wally as far as I can tell, you are still around, my apologies for the extraordinary late reply  :embarrass: Regarding images, I'll post one in this answer; that said, I'm planning on a new addition/modification to my web site: http://www.sdragons.org (http://www.sdragons.org) Check out the Fractal section as it is now, at some point I will archieve all of the images I've got on the site in the planned update! In the mean time here is one that you can't duplicate (at least until I get around to publishing my UF5 formula for it  :dink: )

--hsm


Title: Re: New to FractalForum
Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on September 09, 2013, 02:56:29 AM
    ....I'm planning on a new addition/modification to my web site: http://www.sdragons.org/ (http://www.sdragons.org/)
    Check out the Fractal section as it is now....

I noticed something not working correctly on your Fractals web page, so I sent you an email about it.