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Title: Hello everyone
Post by: Teraflop on November 06, 2010, 05:36:48 PM
Hi!
I am from Munich, and have been interested in fractals for a long time, as well as the demoscene, music visualizations (plus games like Audiosurf or Beat Hazard), and computer generated art in general. After I saw the Mandelbulb somewhere, I decided to write a DirectX program to explore it a bit. Since figuring out a reasonably fast Mandelbulb distance estimation was quite a challenge, I wanted to do things a little more efficiently for the Mandelbox, and while googling, I found a good distance estimation somewhere in this forum which (after some modifications) is now fast enough for realtime exploration. So, yeah... I guess I will post some of the things I am going to discover in this forum!

So anyway, Greetings!
Teraflop.


Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: cbuchner1 on November 06, 2010, 11:37:43 PM
Hi!
I am from Munich, and have been interested in fractals for a long time, as well as the demoscene, music visualizations (plus games like Audiosurf or Beat Hazard), and computer generated art in general.

Hello from Munich here as well (Obergiesing). I am a TUM graduate of 2001.
My "teraflop" is right at home in the form of several CUDA graphics cards.
I did Buddhabrots and realtime Mandelbulbs in CUDA.

Hello and welcome.

Should you ever care for a meet-up, I'll be happy to share what I know about fractals and DE.



Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: bib on November 07, 2010, 12:13:34 AM
Hi Teraflop,

Welcome to the forums, you've found the right place I hope. Looking forward to seeing your realtime explorer

With Regards


Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: hermann on November 07, 2010, 04:11:51 PM
Hallo I am also from the Munic area. I live in Eching in the north of Munic.

Hermann

Olympic Stadion

(http://www.wackerart.de/Olympia/Stadion.JPG)

More pictures:
http://www.wackerart.de/Olympia/olympia1.html (http://www.wackerart.de/Olympia/olympia1.html)
http://www.wackerart.de/Foto/Bahnhof-Candidplatz.html (http://www.wackerart.de/Foto/Bahnhof-Candidplatz.html)


Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: Sockratease on November 07, 2010, 05:14:27 PM
Hello and Welcome to the forum!

Always nice to see more folks working on Mandelbulb Software.

I hope to get a chance to play with your program when it's ready for the public  O0


Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: cKleinhuis on November 07, 2010, 09:22:32 PM
hello and welcome, please publish your work made with cuda or anything other gpu using piece of software, in my eyes there is
far to few realtime explorers ... :D



Title: Re: Hello everyone
Post by: Teraflop on November 08, 2010, 01:27:24 PM
Nice to see two other people from Munich here :) I graduated recently and am now starting a PhD. Currently I am in a Wohnheim in Großhadern, but will have to move soon to some other location in the Munich area. I think a meetup would be a great idea, we should arrange something.

As for my program (Mandelflyer), well it's not really ready for public, but I uploaded it anyway, and opened a new thread for it:
http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-software/mandelflyer-a-directx-based-real-time-mandelbox/