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Published: 2010-06-25 14:35:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 753; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 47
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This image was created with the Fractal Science Kit fractal generator [link]It is an Isogonal Polygon orbit trap applied to a Julia fractal.
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I need to try your program (thanks for the link). This is very nice!
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Great! Make sure to go over the tutorials and download the examples too. The fractal examples download contains the fractal properties files that I used to generate the images in the Fractal Image Gallery. You can use these files as a starting point for your own explorations.
Tutorials: [link]
Examples: [link]
Have fun,
Ross
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Got 'em- thanks! I can't purchase the program until next week, but I look forward to exploring then.
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If you have any questions, drop me an email at rj.hilbert@verizon.net and I'll be happy to reply
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You have many more orbit traps to play with using your program than I've seen elsewhere. I looked up Steiner Chain which looked rather complicated to implement, Borromean Rings which would somewhat easier to implement, however, I don't know what shape "Isogonal Polygon" would be.
Your program has very impressive capabilities judging by your work. I can usually tell that the Fractal Science Kit has been used, excellent name by the way. As I'm in the process of producing a new set of fractal programs by pulling apart the old ones and re-jigging them I look at adding some new orbit trap types.
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Thanks Mark,
I have enjoyed your work as well. Your program produces beautiful images.
The Isogonal Polygon orbit trap is based on a construction called an Isogonal Polygon described in an article "Isogonal Decagons" by Branko Grunbaum, found in the book:
The Pattern Book - Fractals, Art, and Nature
by Clifford A. Pickover
[link]
Ross
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Ah, yes Clifford A. Pickover, him of Pickover Popcorn and Pickover Stalks. I really must expand my library of fractal books, I'm part way through Indra's Pearls but I keep getting distracted by new fractal formulae usually as a result of Kali's work (fractkali).
I find it much more satisfying getting good results out of programs I've written myself than using an off the shelf program such as the ubiquitous Ultra Fractal. I find when using other software that I tend to forget to save parameter files as well as the image so that I can't go back an explore using an old image as a starting point, I got around this problem by embedding all the necessary paramaters including the colour map (gradient) as metadata in the saved image file (I use png files). I can take a previously saved file (a seed file) and drop it on the main window of mars and it will read the parameters and reproduce the image, I can also use the seed file as input to one of the two expansion programs to produce the large image files I upload to dA, one of the expansion programs stores data in a SQL database which means I can pause and resume an expansion at will, which is useful for expansions that take several days.
Thanks for the link.
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"The Pattern Book" and Pickover's classic "Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty" are great additions to any fractal developer's library. The Indra's Pearls book is excellent too! I agree, Kali's work is very inspiring. Using the png metadata is a novel approach! Yeah, I wish large, high-quality fractals didn't take so long to produce.
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The Pattern Book is out of print, so I'll have to look about for a second hand copy, there are only 2 second hand copies listed on amazon.co.uk but they are from the USA and I'd rather not deal with people overseas.
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Yeah, those Americans can't be trusted
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Excuse me, not all of us are total idiots!
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The asymmetry really makes this one interesting! :]
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Thanks! Yeah, the sharp corners reminds me of a ratchet on a mechanical device floating in space. I wonder what it does
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The universe works in mysterious ways... :]
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