Title: Hi from the New Forest Post by: cybermystic on July 24, 2013, 09:51:25 AM Hi all,
I run the New Forest Observatory in Hampshire U.K. but have been playing with fractals since the year dot. My first memories of fractal play were creating fractals on a 38something and a high resolution colour CRT monitor. No digital printers way back then so I used a film camera (no digital cameras then either) to photograph the screen and then use photo services to give me a big A1 size print of the piccie. Heady days - and haven't we come a long way since? Greg Title: Re: Hi from the New Forest Post by: cKleinhuis on July 24, 2013, 10:06:04 AM we have come a long way, indeed, hello and welcome to the forums!
Title: Re: Hi from the New Forest Post by: simon.snake on July 24, 2013, 10:50:07 AM Hi cybermystic
The New Forest, a lovely place to wonder and see the wonder of nature. I live in Purbrook, just outside of Portsmouth and visit the New Forest once in a while. We're having our house adapted and have just been decanted into Fratton for 4 weeks. I didn't know there was an Observatory in the forest. That's been kept well hidden. Recently I purchased (on ebay) a Meade 4500 telescope, and have been having some issues trying to get it set up as I think some of the parts of the tripod are missing. I only paid £56 so can't grumble, but I need to sort out some additional eyepieces as I could barely make out Saturn with the rings as a small irregular dot in the viewer. Great view of the moon the other month. I attempted to take several pictures of the moon with the camera on my phone but it was a bit tricky. Could make out the craters and mountains at the edges. Maybe we could private message and I can give you my contact details. Title: Re: Hi from the New Forest Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on October 25, 2013, 04:15:47 AM Hi all, I run the New Forest Observatory in Hampshire U.K. but have been playing with fractals since the year dot. My first memories of fractal play were creating fractals on a 38something and a high resolution colour CRT monitor. No digital printers way back then so I used a film camera (no digital cameras then either) to photograph the screen and then use photo services to give me a big A1 size print of the piccie. Heady days - and haven't we come a long way since? Greetings, and a belated welcome to this particular forum !!! :D Definitely been a few years since those "old" days of having to photograph monitors. And what fractal rendering applications have you used over the years?? Anything of late?? |