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"pronounce it however you lyc"
# Statistics
Favourites: 3264; Deviations: 61; Watchers: 797
Watching: 270; Pageviews: 159267; Comments Made: 12681; Friends: 270
# Comments
Comments: 1314
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in a past life, with unity
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Respect the work of programmers! ))
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and programmers, especially graphics programmers, respect the work of artists who use the software 
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belated thanks 
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I really ought to have started watching you earlier, but better late than never as it goes.
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belated thanks for the watch
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np, cool works + i chat with matt about IFS stuff a lot, you seem like one of the best users of his software
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Hah, thanks 
Yeah I knew you chatted with Matt as well, he linked me to your page before.
His software deserves way more attention than it currently has, tbh
Hope to test out his new version today.
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dark-beam.deviantart.com/journβ¦
a helping hand?
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Thomas, I wanted to try the new Chaotica - it does not run on WXP? 
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Hi, yeah we have dropped Win XP support finally in the most recent version. I did ask on the Facebook page what people thought about it, especially since you can get a 15% or more performance improvement from using features in newer versions of Windows... sorry, but users (myself included) really want that extra performance, and XP support is just not worth losing it.
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sorry
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After a lot of pain I successfully did it
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lmao
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noisy noises?
(and it's easy to look like a fractal rendering genius after 10 years of obsession...)
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I am finally mastering it (0,002 % progress
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*sneaks in*
Just noticed that I do not have you on my watch list.
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Thomas,
I am a fractal art newby, having just gotten started using Apophysis in May 2013. In watching fellow deviants, I have learned of a number of software tools that generate fractal art. My perception is that Ultra Fractal is top of the line for getting quality results. However, I am also seeing exceptionally high-quality images with the APO-Chaotica pair.
My primary interest is in algorithmically generating images that don't look like algortihmically-generated images. (So, "99.5%" of the fractal images I see on deviantART, although of interest, are not where I'm headed. Having said that, I've accumulated numerous images in my Favourites [sic] folders that better reveal my interests than any hard and fast rule.)
Could you briefly explain how you see Chaotica positioned in the fractal-art generator marketplace? What are its key strengths? What does it do, that Apo can't? What does it not do, that Apo can? I'm trying to understand the boundaries of both tools, as well as, the interface. [I'm not totally ignorant of Chaotica. I've visited the web site on multiple occasions. I'm just trying to better understand it vis-Γ -vis Apophysis.]
Lastly, how does Chaotica compare with Ultra Fractal? What do you see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two tools? [I'm not looking for a detailed Market Analysis from you --- just an off-the-cuff reading will do.]
I'm just a step or two away from investing time in Chaotica or Ultra Fractal, but thought I'd stop by and get your perceptions first.
Thanks,
Richard
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Hi Richard, thanks for your kind words and interest in Chaotica! You've a good eye for the most important thing I think, the image quality 
UltraFractal has a fantastic user interface and a lot of freely available formulae by others for exploration, however it mainly works with a different rendering paradigm, the so-called "escape time" methods. Although it can do the IFS method Chaotica employs, it doesn't specialise in it the way Chaotica does, and the plan is to push this IFS method very far into new territory. I've done much in personal experiments without "doing it properly" and commercially, as I've recently been able to thanks to my parent company, Glare Technologies. We usually make 3D rendering software, Indigo Renderer: [link]
The best suggestion I can give about fractaling is to check out the awesome #Aposhack chat channel, there are many people knowledgeable in UF, Apo and Chaotica there
PS. I love your formal register!
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Thomas, thanks for your helpful reply. I particularly appreciate the information about the different rendering paradigms. -- Richard
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waaaaaaaaaaaah they are all so beautiful!
What's c++ though?
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c++ is a programming language, which most pro software is written in. glad you like the results
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Hello Thomas. Thanks for the fave!
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ahaha, pls don't confuse genius with spending one's whole life doing the same thing
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I'm not sure I fully understand how you create your art, but it is beautiful. I'm very fascinated, and it would be great to know how you did it.
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heya, sorry for the late reply 
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Well I think it's fantastic. I've been reading about fractals now and they're very interesting, if a bit hard to get my head around. XD
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you should check out the #Aposhack chatroom, lots of friendly people there talking about fractals n stuff
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Hiya there lyc I wonder if you could tell me if you've added transparent png features in the recent version of chaotica. I have rendered a fractal using version 0.45 from [link] and my chaotica fractal render background was black ( not this is Richard not my sis writing )
thanks for reading and really like what I have seen of your program so far , enjoy your day
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