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Thank you for all your efforts.
Much appreciate the improvements your blood and sweat has added.

Yes exactly as Louis said it, thanks from all of us for stepping up and enhancing the program.  All your reasons make good sense.

M3D will continue to entertain users for years to come.




 

indeed a sad note but totally understandable, main problem was the huge investment for the development system that might have stopped most of the people in engaging in any way, for me this was the blocker from the start

anyways, as others have said you already pushed the program, and the source remains public?

Thanks for your efforts Andreas!

0Encrypted0 already said exactly what I was thinking, Jesse said the code would be impossible to work with, so you already did the impossible!

I am sorry I didn't have more to do any betatest reports (I had the impression a lot of other users did) also sad to hear the stupid response you've had from "people" who only demands things - that kind is only worth ignoring.

Thank you for your efforts Andreas, you did the impossible! ...only thing I had wished for was colored voxel or mesh export But there is still so much we can do with it as it is!

Cheers
Johan

It was somewhat surprising and sad to read your statement the next day after I tried your program. You named several reasons for your decision to quit the game ... they look convincing. Perhaps you are too young to understand that really interesting problems are rare things. Of course, your decision is your right. However, as soon as you mention the lack of interesting and easy-to-implement  proposals for the development of the program, I want to make a few observations.
Firstly, the idea of automatic mutation is very good, because the fractal  surface is very sensitive to changes in the parameters, and manual "mutation" is ineffective. But there are two problems. The first is the optimum camera position deviation, whereby the current image after mutation becomes useless for  quality evaluation of the mutation result. The second problem - the lack of criteria for evaluating the quality of mutation result and, therefore, the choice of the direction of further mutations.
The solution to these problems would be automatic "viewfinder" that selects the camera position on the criterion of the quality of the visual surface. It can be a stand-alone module that accepts  3D field of points - a rough representation  of the fractal.
I have been using this approach for the selection of fractal curves, synthesized with random choise of parameters. My algorithm automatically records videos of creation and decomposition of "successful" solutions, as well as main parameters of synthesis. The results are very convincing.
Of course, I have no right to lecture you, but do not give up work, which is so close to completion. If you will provide the possibility of unloading the cube of rough data, I can help in the choice of the fractal image quality criteria.

Best regard anyway.

Hi, I don't understand a thing about coding or programming, but I totally get that it must be a drag not to get the support you need, especially when it's all done for the love of the art, so to speak. All I can say is thanks. I'm still hopeful, I can see a bright future for MB3D, even if it doesn't develop much further it's a very powerful program and we'll keep seeing a growing number of fractal artists and magnificent pieces of work thanks to it.