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Title: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: BoePyne on December 30, 2011, 11:33:16 AM
Hi everyone! I joined this forum in the hope of finding an answer to a question. The 'Amazing Box' fractal: I'm fine with how it's generated; very elegant and simple. My question is; in Mandlebulb3D, what is the formula marked _Amazing Box doing? I know it is not meant as a 'stand alone' formula; I like the facinating architecture in combining it with the Amazing Box, but I like to understand what is going on and there's no desciption tagged to it.
I must also thank (or curse, considering the amount of time spent when I should be practising (I'm a musician)) Jesse for the amazing software; it's out on it's own in comparison with any others I've tried.


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: Sockratease on December 30, 2011, 01:00:17 PM
Hello and Welcome to the forums.

Wish I understood more about those undocumented formulas myself...

Hopefully somebody who knows will answer   O0


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: cKleinhuis on December 30, 2011, 01:30:34 PM
hello and welcome to the forums, only darkbeam and jesse knows ;)




Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: bib on December 30, 2011, 03:39:47 PM
what is the formula marked _Amazing Box doing?

Hi and Welcome to FF.

_Amazing Box is the same as Amazing Box, without the +c at the end.

So if you do
F1: _AmazingBox
F2: _addC
You should get more or less the same as Amazing Box (except that a bailout test is performed in the middle)


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: BoePyne on December 30, 2011, 04:22:47 PM
Thank's Bib, that's great! Now I know what's going on. I think there's a kind of Zen asthetic about finding the simplest things that do amazing stuff.javascript:void(0)


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: DarkBeam on December 30, 2011, 04:33:01 PM
Yes, assembly zen is everywhere indeed! :angel1: Welcomies ;D


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: BoePyne on December 30, 2011, 10:16:26 PM
A question for Bib if you see this. What happened to the box fold parameter in _Amazing Box?


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: bib on December 30, 2011, 10:32:59 PM
A question for Bib if you see this. What happened to the box fold parameter in _Amazing Box?

I have no idea, only Jesse can answer this one, maybe Darkbeam can add it in a new formula. FYI Jesse writes the program and the main formulas and Darkbeam is the mad hacker who found a way to add formulas.


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: Jesse on December 30, 2011, 11:08:33 PM
There was never such a parameter, iirc it was added later on to the AmazingBox formula, not to the _A... version where the value is internally fixed to 1.
Could add the parameter to it if i find some time, need some work to initialize the new parameter to 1 if old paras are loaded (i guess this is still not implemented).


Title: Re: Hi from another fractoholic
Post by: BoePyne on December 31, 2011, 10:33:02 AM
Thank's Jesse. I thought that the box must have been fixed to 1. A fantastically addictive program you have produced; utterly facinating!