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What kind of assumption is that? Looks like you did your best to view it as negatively as you possibly could.

good question, i guess doing this stuff just kind of lends itself to sharing what you create, for better or for worse.  that doesnt necessarily mean everyone who posts anything necessarily thinks its the best thing ever.  ive posted some half-baked sucky stuff that i knew wasnt great, oh well.  the very last image i posted even has two stupid lines through the middle due to a recent bug i havent figured out yet.  now, maybe i should care just a tiny bit more and at least post stuff without errors,    but oh well.  its just fun to share what you are working on even if it isnt perfect or the pinnacle of human achievement.

fair enough.  especially a competition against commercial software, now thats a worthwhile competition.

just a random thought, but i always found it weird how nobody ever acknowledged, responded to, or commented on that guy who posted to the original SFT thread about perturbation, saying how he created a mandelbrot program that used perturbation for adobe like 20 years ago.  i thought that was really interesting that this has actually been done long ago.  even more interesting, and curious, is that nobody ever acknowledged that guy in that thread or anywhere else on here that ive seen, tried to talk to him, ask him questions, show any interest in his story, ...and continue to credit the SFT guy as being the first human to ever discover/implement it, and continue to credit themselves as being poineers in this brave new perturbative world.  nothing against the SFT guy though of course.

but maybe thats that competition mindset at work though?  if somebody else was the original pioneer of something, but everyone can agree to pretend it never happened, then its easier for everyone to promote themselves as pioneers?    thats the sort of "competition" mindset related stuff that is harder to respect.  more honest and friendly competition where everyone is more interested in the art or the information itself instead of the primary concern always being self-aggrandizement would be the better ideal.

that is in fact the thread i was talking about, specifically:

http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?topic=15559.msg62983#msg62983


not a single person ever replied to this post, and ive never seen this guy or his program or the fact that he implemented the perturbation technique 20 years ago ever mentioned by anyone.  it just never made any sense to me that nobody but me found this the slightest bit interesting.

well, it lists the guy as having only 3 forum posts, so apparently he and i both missed it

I don't think this guy deserves any acknowledgement or response. If what he writes is true, he kept his discoveries for him self and that doesn't gain any of the rest of us. He didn't even share a single line of even apparently deliberately obfuscated compiler-dependent code.
So even if K.I.Martin is only the second to discover this, IMHO he deserves all the acknowledgements and honor since he shared his discoveries.
And so does the rest of the people I listed, and in addition stardust4ever that shared easily accessible formulas of all those abs-variants. And all that sent feedback on Kalles Fraktaler and also the other perturbation programs, e.g. Mandel machine etc. And Chillheimer for hosting my program. Cheers and happy new year to you all!