Title: Hi everyone! Post by: Cyclops on January 15, 2009, 03:20:38 PM Hi everybody, my name's Larry and I just found this site after googling for a fractals forum.
Anyway, I've been interested in fractals and chaos for quite a while-given a big kick start when I read James Gleick's Chaos(am currently re-reading it, fascinating stuff!) I'm not just interested in fractals tho, but also the nature of chaos, strange attractors,unpredictability and 'random patterns' At the moment I use Fractal Explorer and just started with Incendia-so good! Inm the past though I have used Fractint,FracGen and a russian one called Kraska. I used to have an atari ST and would run these programs on it, but of course you cant find them for Windows! It wouod also be cool to find a software package that deals with chaos and orbits and stuff,not just the pretty graphics. Anyway, thats me, gonna go edit my profile and stuff then have a look round this place! Oh and wheres the best section to upload pics? ;) Title: Re: Hi everyone! Post by: David Makin on January 15, 2009, 04:05:16 PM <snip> I'm not just interested in fractals tho, but also the nature of chaos, strange attractors,unpredictability and 'random patterns' At the moment I use Fractal Explorer and just started with Incendia-so good! Inm the past though I have used Fractint,FracGen and a russian one called Kraska. I used to have an atari ST and would run these programs on it, but of course you cant find them for Windows! It wouod also be cool to find a software package that deals with chaos and orbits and stuff,not just the pretty graphics. Anyway, thats me, gonna go edit my profile and stuff then have a look round this place! Oh and wheres the best section to upload pics? ;) Hello and welcome to the forum. Since you say you're into Strange Attractors I highly recommend "Chaoscope": http://www.chaoscope.org/ For general fractals/chaos and similar mathematical constructions the premium software to acquire is Ultra Fractal: http://www.ultrafractal.com/ To give you some idea of its scope take a look at the Ultra Fractal database: http://formulas.ultrafractal.com/ If you only want freeware then the closest thing to Ultra Fractal is ChaosPro: http://www.chaospro.de/ ChaosPro is somewhat compatible with Ultra Fractal in that you can use UF formulas up to formulas for UF v3.02 in ChaosPro (note that UF is now up to version 5). In my opinion Ultra Fractal is worth every penny :) For Ultrafractal I wrote an Attractors formula which allows you to switch to orbital attractors from the Mandelbrots of the same formula - it's "Attractors" in mmf4.ufm from the Ultra Fractal formula database (not ChaosPro compatible). Take a look through the sample galleries at http://www.ultrafractal.com/ to get some idea of the possibilities. As for UF Animation Edition, here's an animation I created using a 3D IFS formula for Ultra Fractal: http://makinmagic.deviantart.com/art/Inside-the-Sierpinski-Temple-2-79825788 or http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SnP4_OvKqxI&feature=channel_page As to where to post your images just go to the Gallery - Linked to Boards - Fractal Software and the appropriate program's section. We need a section for Incendia adding :) bye Dave http://www.fractalgallery.co.uk/ http://website.lineone.net/~dave_makin/ http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=MakinMagic http://djm.digitalart.org/ http://makinmagic.deviantart.com/ Title: Re: Hi everyone! Post by: Cyclops on January 15, 2009, 04:13:27 PM Thanks Dave, that name Chaospro rings a bell! :D
Title: Re: Hi everyone! Post by: cKleinhuis on January 15, 2009, 10:31:45 PM be sure to check out the paper fractals ! O0 O0 O0 http://www.fractalforums.com/other-artforms/paper-fractal/ @dave i made a section for incendia ! :police: :police: |