I'd like to say hello to everyone here.
I've been interested in fractals ever since I was 15, when I got the famous Scientific American issue from 1986, which I still have.
Throughout that summer, I tried to figure out how to make my own Mandelbrot Set renderer program for Apple II. I got as far as making a black circle, which suggests I mistakenly stopped at one iteration. But within a couple of years, I was making rather poor lo-res images (couldn't stand the coloring difficulties with hi-res) which at least resembled the Set.
I didn't really start to shine out with my own programming until Apple IIgs, but programming in BASIC is very slow and there was not much precision or zooming capability. Soon I bought an IBM 486 with QBASIC, and made an excellent program that took advantage of decent VGA with 256 colors.
Eventually I got on the internet and found excellent fractallography applications. I forgot if I first found ManPWin (Paul's Mandelbrots for Windows) or FracTint, but both became superceded quickly with Ultra Fractal 3.
Now I have Ultra Fractal 4 and use it most of the time. At one point I had 20 to 25 other programs as well including Apophysis, but I was dissatisfied or with most of them or with my abilities in using them.
My current fractallographies are not always exactly "pure" (i.e. only submitting a straight up render), but can include enhancements through Photoshop to make the artistic element better. However, I do submit pure renders often.
My Mandelnautics (i.e. animated journeys through the Mandelbrot Set dimension) are a recent experiment and subject to improvements, but I like how things have gone so far.
Fractallography:
http://zoom98.deviantart.comMandelnautics:
http://www.youtube.com/user/zoom98Other interests: I also run a company that is working on an RPG, but this has little to do with fractals at present. Also I have a lot of other hobbies, meaning I may not post here too often. But it's great to meet everyone here.
November 30, 2006, 10:31:43 AM
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