Introduction and FractalPop.com

[professorai]

Hi,

I am a professor of AI and have worked on  fractals and chaos for many years.
My theory is that the recursive and compositional representational faculties of mind are built on the fractal basin boundaries of chaos in the brain, but it is hard to prove!

I just launched a new website http://fractalpop.com which consists of a javascript mandelbrot generator which is synchronized to a postscript fractal generator and a RIP for making large prints on a plotter. I used to have a designjet plotter and besides my kids science fair projects, I wrote and would print a tiny postscript file, wait 3 days, and a fantastic artwork would emerge.  My friends loved and stole all of them.

I recently bought a used Epson 7880 to replace the designjet and the fractal printouts are really quite amazing on this "giclee" printer, suitable for framing and supposed to last 200 years. 

FractalPop! (the pop is like in Pop Art) is subversive a little bit, in that it presumes anyone can become a fractal artist, at least enough to find one mandelbrot zoom which is aesthetic enough to want a giclee print.

Feedback on the website concept and execution is welcome. it is still pretty primitive but could get more complex over time as I work on it.
you need to use a modern browser like mozilla, safari, or chrome, it doesn't work with IE yet because it uses the Canvas feature of HTML5.

[Sockratease]

Hello and Welcome to the forum.

The page you linked to runs too slow on my crappy little internet computer    but it looks like an interesting effort!

Good luck with the project and feel free to post your work in our Gallery

[professorai]

Thats a shame.   I've tried it on laptops new and old and it seems to work speedily at 400x400, tho 800 x800 takes a while.
What kind of netbook are you running?

[Sockratease]

Thats a shame.   I've tried it on laptops new and old and it seems to work speedily at 400x400, tho 800 x800 takes a while.
What kind of netbook are you running?

It's a desktop computer, running windoze vista, but it's on the way out!  It's been having all sorts of issues and I just need to upgrade.  I usually get nery low end computers for my online work, and keep a really good one offline completely for Art, Fractals, and Video Editing! That way I can kill all the background processes, firewalls, anti-viruses, and other system hogs and devote the full force of the 'puter to the task at hand. 

So I'll never have a decent online computer - just don't see the point...