Title: The origins of FRACTALUS Post by: hgjf2 on January 18, 2015, 10:39:26 AM We know that one from the famous sites with fractals is FRACTALUS as FRACTALUS.NET and FRACTALUS.COM developed at about year 2000.
But FRACTALUS were term invented at about year 1989 from ATARI computer games production, becuase one game on ATARI and COMMODORE and AMIGA is named "Rescue on Fractalus" developed at featuring LUCAS ART from LUCAS FILM the developer of movie series "Star Wars", what seem to game "Rescue on Fractalus" is few inspired from "Star Wars". This game is about a ship whick exploring alien planets to rescue aliens from wars. The game image is from this ship's cockpit. At those alien planet, it seeing mountain rendered 3D maybe with fractal technick (fractal landscapes), but anyhow with math algorithm. The game having and other name "Behing Jaggi-lines". There FRACTALUS is as name of alien planet populated by aliens. Title: Re: The origins of FRACTALUS Post by: youhn on January 18, 2015, 02:17:39 PM A quick Google reveals that it's also;
A movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808273/ A short movie - http://vimeo.com/20440155 An indie game on Xbox - http://www.xboxindies.com/dev/fuzzy-duck-entertainment A user name on different sites If you count 2-word names, more can be found. Title: Re: The origins of FRACTALUS Post by: Kalles Fraktaler on January 18, 2015, 05:41:00 PM Fractalus is a lovely Mandelbrot explorer made by Kari Korkeila.
I played with it some 15 years ago. Unfortunately the main page is not working anymore http://personal.inet.fi/koti/fractalus/ But it is still available for downloading if one google "Fractalus Kari Korkeila" (http://v1.download.bg/uploads/shots/1042471239.jpg) Title: Re: The origins of FRACTALUS Post by: axewater on March 22, 2015, 05:55:40 AM I remember playing Fractalus on my Atari 800 XL back in the day ! |