Title: fractal-nerds - 3D Fractal Animation Crowdsourced Post by: Escapado on April 01, 2013, 08:26:34 PM Hi Guys,
I think the title tells everything you need to know to click the link below: http://www.fractal-nerds.tk/ It's a side project I just started to crowdsource the process of creating fractal videos. Feel free to participate and comment. :dink: Title: Re: fractal-nerds - 3D Fractal Animation Crowdsourced Post by: makc on April 01, 2013, 11:46:40 PM Title: Re: fractal-nerds - 3D Fractal Animation Crowdsourced Post by: makc on April 01, 2013, 11:52:13 PM oh wait... I jumped to conclusions too fast :) you are not giving back at all, basically everyone will render your jobs only. Oh well. Then I guess it makes sense for you :)
p.s. just to be clear, I did not call you (personally) an arsehole because you want other people cpus for free. many people do that, e.g. protein folding guys or electric sheep guys. I was having in mind someone who participates in bi-directional sharing but games the system to his own advantage. for example, people who stop seeding torrents as soon as it 100% downloaded. but as long as you are running uni-directional system and open about it, it's fine ) on somewhat unrelated note, I also noticed you want to share youtube ads, well why not just buy some amazon cloud time and compute there. Title: Re: fractal-nerds - 3D Fractal Animation Crowdsourced Post by: Escapado on April 02, 2013, 10:27:46 AM Hi makc,
Yeah, now you got it right, I want other peoples CPU Time and in return they get to see videos and may earn a little money from helping. The reasons for which I am not buying cloud time are: 1) I am not a good programmer and as I state on the webpage I am using Mandelbulb3D to Render the fractals, which is closed source and only available as a windows binary, so I do not know how to port it to the cloud. 2) I have absolutely no idea about how you run things in the cloud at all and I have not even programmed a single renderer myself. I just wrote a program to automize the configuration of M3B and build a small web infrastructure for it. 3) I could acutally use the cluster at my university but then again reason 2 kicks in. Title: Re: fractal-nerds - 3D Fractal Animation Crowdsourced Post by: taurus on April 02, 2013, 12:17:32 PM I know it is meanwhile completely different than m3d, but mandelbulber would have major advantages in your case.
personally I still prefer mandelbulber for animations, for it's precise control over the results. Compared to mandelbulber the m3d interpolation feels like playing lottery. |