Kalles Fraktaler 2

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Not be a grammar or spelling pendant    , but here is the upper text on you webpage corrected:

 

 

[hsmyers]

Yeah, I caught another just before I pressed post  What can I say, I'm lexdysic errrr---dyslexic 

--hsm

[Pauldelbrot]

 

Skitt's Law strikes again!

[SeryZone]

Kalle! Can I ask you for new updates?
1) Non-Linear color density: Your coloring formula is Index = iteration / (Iteration Div)
    More smooth is Index = sqrt(iteration) / (IterationDiv). It gives more smooth coloring on denser elements and near minibrot (or Julia).
2) Cosine palette Interpolation.
   
x1 = 0, y1 = 0. x2 = 255, x2 = 255
   //Linear interpolation
function interpolate_linear(a, b, k:Double):Double;
begin
  Result := a * (1 - k) + b * (k);
end;



//Cosine Interpolation
function interpolate_cosine(a, b, k:Double):Double;
begin
  Result := ((a + b) + (a - b) * cos(pi * k)) / 2;
end;

a - begin point (x1)
b - end point.  (x2)
k - |y2-y1|

[Kalles Fraktaler]

I am glad to be able to announce that I have made a new version available on my web-page
http://biphome.spray.se/karl.runmo/fraktal2.htm

This program is free, but if you are ever able to make money of what you produce with my program you may consider sharing it with me.

[hsmyers]

Kalles,

It just keeps getting better  Have you considered some sort of automatic/adaptive option for iterations? You can reach depths that need greater counts so quickly that it would be nice to have it adjust it self. Perhaps even something as rudimentary as  Ctrl+D to double the current iteration? In any event, keep up the great work 

--hsm

[Dinkydau]

Awesome
I'm zooming with your new program right now.

[Kalles Fraktaler]

hsmyers, thanks for the reminder, I had this planned but forgot it. There is a 2.1.1. available now

Dinkydau, so your desktop is at least 8 times faster than your laptop, since it has 8 times more processor cores.
And now my program is at least 10 times faster on depths deeper than e301.
You realize that we would be able to explore the Mandelbrot set maybe 100 times faster on your desktop, right?
So how are we going to get my program work on your desktop...??

[Dinkydau]

Really I have no idea. I tried everything that I could think of to fix the problem. My desktop has windows 7 ultimate while my laptop has windows 7 home. It happens with every version of Kalles fraktaler you released.

There is one possible explanation that I have thought of, and that is that the problem is inherent to the CPUs. Maybe your program doesn't work with two physical CPUs, the AMD interlagos architecture or the number of cores. But I find it very unlikely that anything like that is indeed the problem. The CPUs should not be a problem as long as the operating system works. At least they should not make a program crash...

[panzerboy]

Big thankyou to Karl for the Movie Maker! 
Now I can finally make a mandelbrot zoom movie with colour cycling and rotation.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UZ5e99j533A&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UZ5e99j533A&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

A Couple of suggestions if you might be developing further.
The file names for multi-part videos do not automatically load into VirtualDub.
You use file names like file[01].avi, file[02].avi ...
If you change them to file_01.avi, file_02.avi and so on I wouldnt have to do this DOS 1 liner to convert the file names.

Code:

for /f "usebackq delims=[] tokens=1-3" %i in (`dir /b film[??].avi`) do rename %i[%j]%k %i_%j.avi

The rotation does not seem to work for 0.5 even though the docs on the page say the degrees rotation is a 'float value'.
Super slow rotation can look cool.

I'd like slower colour cycling too, but noting that the iterations per frame is an integer and you 'smooth' the colours by using palette indexes I guess all your colouring logic is integer based?
So converting to floating point would be a biggie.

[Kalles Fraktaler]

Big thankyou to Karl for the Movie Maker!  
Now I can finally make a mandelbrot zoom movie with colour cycling and rotation.

A Couple of suggestions if you might be developing further.
The file names for multi-part videos do not automatically load into VirtualDub.
You use file names like file[01].avi, file[02].avi ...
If you change them to file_01.avi, file_02.avi and so on I wouldnt have to do this DOS 1 liner to convert the file names.

Code:

for /f "usebackq delims=[] tokens=1-3" %i in (`dir /b film[??].avi`) do rename %i[%j]%k %i_%j.avi

The rotation does not seem to work for 0.5 even though the docs on the page say the degrees rotation is a 'float value'.
Super slow rotation can look cool.

I'd like slower colour cycling too, but noting that the iterations per frame is an integer and you 'smooth' the colours by using palette indexes I guess all your colouring logic is integer based?
So converting to floating point would be a biggie.

Thanks for your kind comments.
Yes I found these bugs, some hardcoded values I forgot to set.
I have also found that the cycling could be nice to be slower than 1.
I will make an update this evening. :-)

Edit: I have now updated the KeyFrameMovie program and corrected the bugs and changed the out file names.

BTW, Panzerboy or CommandLineCowboy, did you know that you made me into all this a year ago? I found one of your movies on youtube and was mind blown, my program Kalles Fraktaler 1 could not zoom more than e13, which is the limit when using the double datatype and the standard methods. I got inspired and encouraged to create an arbitrary precision module, and I did many zoom movies with it. It feels rather long time ago now, but it is only a year.
Here is my first movie, uploaded in October last year, so it is an anniversary today.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/PvPk_-xcrEo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/PvPk_-xcrEo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[Chillheimer]

yeah! lovely to see progress here!

sadly, the moviemaker doesn't work here (win 8 64 bit)
it starts like in the screenshot and then freezes..

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Movie maker crash here also (on Windows ME) the same kind of way, shows its window (with that horrible typo in the title bar  ) and then I get a message saying it has caused an error in itself and I find this in faultlog.txt:

KEYFRAMESMOVIE caused an invalid page fault in
module KEYFRAMESMOVIE.EXE at 0177:0040718f.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0177 EIP=0040718f EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0063e61c EBP=00000658
ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=00008af8 FS=83bf
EDX=00000000 ES=017f EDI=0063ea88 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 43 10 8b 2d 18 92 40 00 6a 00 6a 00 68 8b 01
Stack dump:
00008af8 00000658 00000001 00000000 00403fcf 0063e648 0063ea88 00008af8 00000658 00000001 ffff0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 57c40002

The main application runs just fine as usual.

[Kalles Fraktaler]

Does it crash on start or were you able to select any folder where you have zoom images and start render movies?

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Upon launching it, I just get to see that preview window and this is it, no browse for folder dialog (or else) appears (apart from the error message).