Title: Ringing in the New Year Post by: Fractal Ken on December 31, 2010, 09:07:53 AM (http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l540/Fractal_Ken/RingingInTheNewYear1000-1.png)
Title: Re: Ringing in the New Year Post by: Sockratease on December 31, 2010, 12:45:07 PM Nice :D
I've long been a sucker for using images in my coloring of fractals, what software made that? I've not been able to get quite that effect before and am curious how you achieved it. Oh, and Welcome to the forum! I see that's your first post O0 Title: Re: Ringing in the New Year Post by: Fractal Ken on December 31, 2010, 05:37:56 PM Sockratease, thanks for the kind welcome.
I made the Julia set with Fortran software I wrote myself (not at all user-friendly; for each run I modify the source code and recompile!) I employed two coloring formulas: escape time and minimum distance from a circle of radius 1/2, the latter enabling my pun by producing rings. However, the formulas don't set pixel color directly. Instead, they determine row # and column #, respectively. Pixel color is actually plucked from an input image. I assembled the input image in GIMP. One layer is a page full of "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" clipped from Notepad. The other layer is a "plasma cloud" rendered in GIMP. Here's a sample plasma cloud: (http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l540/Fractal_Ken/SamplePlasmaCloud400.png) I look forward to posting a lot more fractals! Ken Title: Re: Ringing in the New Year Post by: yv3 on January 11, 2011, 08:23:48 PM You seem to be an artistic guy! Combining techniques gives more inspiration. Looking forward to new fractals from you.
Wish you all a happy new year, even without fractals :) Title: Re: Ringing in the New Year Post by: Fractal Ken on January 11, 2011, 09:33:26 PM How can we have a happy new year without fractals? :dink: |