Feedback is very appreciated. But I don't want to charge for my program. It would give me responsibility and this is only a hobby program so I may not always be available to correct things. The big job is made by K.I.Martin that shared the pertubation and series approximation methods, and he shared for free. And... I wont make a fortune anyway...
I understand that..
If you're in contact with K.I.Martin, please send him greetings and huge thanks! I don't understand how this new method doesn't create a huge fuss in this forum. It is at the core of what happens here and nearly noone seems to be interested... very strange. probably because everyone is so much focussed on 3d-fractals now. but I guess the time will come, then you and mr. Martin will be overwhelmed with praise
btw, do you think that method will work for 3d too?
1. No manual yet, I should perhaps put a description on my web-page. Some of the menu items are there for only my debugging.
--yeah, please do! or if it is easier, a short mouseover-description would be enough
2. You can store a jpeg image in any size, but then you cannot manually correct glitches. I've already separated the image from the window size, so it would be possible to have them managed separately. If image shrinking can be considered anti-aliasing?
--I don't know, but don't think simple shrinking has the same effect. but I'm sure a graphic program can shrink with anti-aliasing, so the possibility to render big images is already a workaround.
but how do you set the size then, could you please descibe it shortly?
3. I have now abandoned my previous video frame rendering method and are currently doing it the same way as fx, with key frames for every power of 2. But that requires another program that creates the movies by combining the frames, I have made such program but it does not have any UI yet.
--I really hope that this doesn't change the speed, and especially not the great quality and perfect details at the image-edges (that blurriness outside of the 'keyframes' is the most annoying 'feature' of fractal xtreme for me)
some ideas for ui follow below
4.
With the power of 2 rendering the other program set this text instead. Don't you want it? I think this text is a main part of my fascination of the infinity of the Mandelbrot set though.
--yes, I'd love to get my hands on it!
what do you mean with "this text"?
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8. Find highest iteration just puts the cursor over the pixel with the highest iteration and was used for debugging. The Find Minibrot function handles maximum iterations automatically, so the same could be used when exploring.
9. Box-zooming, isn't that already there? And I don't even have a mouse on my laptop, and no mouse wheel...
-----I meant drawing the size of the box instead of having to go into a menu to choose the size.. would be nicer for the 'work'flow.. but not a must-have at all..
I am not sure the sideview turned out that good, did it?
---- you are right, BUT!
I just wanted to make sure you know what I'm talking about so you understand my UI-idea..
I imagine automation of interesting video-parameters on the timeline of the sideview. To give you an idea, I mean something remotely similar to the automation I use in my daily work:
(of course just one track and unbroken)
so in the sideview you can see where you are in the fractal and what is happening. when there is something interesting you could for example decrease the speed so one has time to appreciate the details.
other interesting parameters would be:
-colourmap (but maybe not a pre-fixed one, but setting the colours in the timeline itself, so one can give desired areas exactly the colour you want. I'd really love to be able to do this in zoom movies.
-rotation and its speed
-and it would be a great navigator through the video itself.
I have absolutely no idea how complicated something like that is to program - but wouldn't it be awesome?
cheers,
Chilli