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Hello Everyone!

I'm William Edwards, I'm a hobby programmer and this is my blog (http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/).

I've been asking a few questions on the programming board but hadn't got around to introducing myself!

As an untrained newbie I'm struggling to understand a lot of things and have cut-n-pasted code I don't understand.  I'd like to take the opportunity to ask which board I might ask dumb, ill-informed questions like:

 * "if Iterations is a 'level of detail' setting, can the value of Iterations be scaled by ray distance travelled?" and
 * "how do you colour a 3D fractal?"

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Loving all the rate-my-fractals images and videos!  They are super-inspiring and I'm fighting the urge to just spam them all with "like it!" messages.  But if you post an image, you *want* people to show appreciation.  So from now on, I'm going to start chiming in even if I have no useful input, just to say that I liked it.  And a mod can PM me if I have to dial the enthusiasm back a bit :)

Hello and welcome to the forums

the programmer board is the right section to ask, you know there can not and will never be a dumb question, just answers may be dumb

feel free to comment, why not starting with commenting each of my chaostv issues? :D

I would assume varying the iterations by distance would introduce noise since there is discontinuity between integer iterations. But since I haven't tried it this may be one of those "dumb answers" :)