Greeting to all at the fractal forum
I'm Robin Bussell from Bristol, England. Part time fractal programmer of yore, currently general boffin without portfolio for a small tech company in wales.
I first came across fractals when working for a company who built the demo boards for the Inmos Transputer in the mid 80s, the Mandelbrot set was an ideal demonstration of the power of distributed computing and really caught my imagination. It was a good few years before I saw anything that matched the speed of the largest bunch of processors I was able to gather together at once ... 80 x 20Mhz cpus for a few days only alas, not bad for 1986 though!
After I left that job I was stuck back in slow fractal land like the rest of us, wrote the obligatory mandlebrot generator in C (possible unique point, it could output to colour tektronix terminals ... guess what my job involved repairing at the time
) then shortly after discovered the wonder that is fractint, got myself a compuserve account ( the internet was still on "web version 0.01" back then
) purely to get hold of the source and spent the next ten years or so attempting to add various bells and whistles to the user interface... didn't go near the scary maths
One day I'll have enough spare time to devote to tweaking fractint again (or whatever it morphs into ) meanwhile I hang around the fringes of the fractal scene occasionally attempting to keep up
Other interests include power kiting, pyrotechnics, and electronics in general ( haven't combined them all yet! though I did make a sound system for my kite buggy once and have made several electronic firing systems for pyro )
Good to see some old familiar names here, happy fractalising ( or whatever, have we decided on the proper verb yet? )
Cheers,
Robin.
May 08, 2007, 08:52:46 PM
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