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ShadowAether In reply to Dimeolas7 [2014-01-31 16:28:09 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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ShadowAether In reply to Heart-in-my-Head [2013-08-18 21:06:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

It takes a few seconds to render the preview and shows up all at once. Fractal animation and variations seem like they would be closer to watching it develop. Hope that answers your question

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Heart-in-my-Head In reply to ShadowAether [2013-08-18 21:29:46 +0000 UTC]

No, it doesn't. You're talking to a fossilized traffic cone here who has had way too many concussions playing ice hockey and falling outta trees. You mentioned something earlier about these fractals: "So this is what I've been waiting for all afternoon. Good thing is Apo 7x really sped up once I gave it 4 processor cores to work with, otherwise I would've been waiting here for 6 hours..."

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ShadowAether In reply to Heart-in-my-Head [2013-08-19 04:12:28 +0000 UTC]

Sorry- I'll try to simplify it.

First you "make" the fractal by editing parameters, rotating it, etc...

After each edit the software will render a smaller preview image for you to view so you can look at the changes you've made. This usually takes a few seconds to pop up on your screen. Each time you see an fractal image it's a render. The computer creates an image every single time.

That''s the preview render, then you have, what I like to call the "final" render. This is the image I end up posting. This image is much larger (I try to go with a minimum of 1000 px on the shortest side) and has much more detail. I've rendered images in 7 minutes or 18 hours. The more processing power you allow the program to have, the less time it takes. When I'm not using my computer, I give Apophysis all 4 processor cores or 100% CPU(all of my computer's processing ability) so it can finish much faster.

I hope that's not too complex for you. I don't know how else I can describe it without catching you up on the fractal vocabulary.

If you're really interested, you can just download Apophysis from SoureForge- it's open-source software so anyone can use it. That's how I started- clicking random buttons sometimes works best.

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Heart-in-my-Head In reply to ShadowAether [2013-08-19 21:29:31 +0000 UTC]

Ahoy ShadowAether! Thanks so much for sending this detailed description of how Apophysis is throttling your computer into overclocked status to create these spectacular images. I'm loving it when someone on the other end has more than a couple gifted scientific brain cells clicking together. "I want that bonus, and you do too!" as my colleague at Nuzzle Shelf Axiom once quoted so eloquently when we were counting cards and winning bigtime during Blackjack in the aft esplanade casino aboard the Seven Seas Navigator in February 2000 somewhere in the vicinity of Montserrat.

As you know, I prefer archaic computer systems but after analyzing some of the mind boggling material on apophysis-7x.org, I'm suddenly quite motivated to buy an Alienware Aurora tower with 6 processing cores, because it's all the way or nothing a'tol my TBM counterpart...

I know I have sent you this one before, but I adore it so much you get to feel the bliss of those analogue stage lights all over again... youtu.be/-iNesZnhtso

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ShadowAether In reply to Heart-in-my-Head [2013-08-20 01:12:19 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome Thank you; there are some advantages to being intelligent

I find apophysis can be a real strain on my laptop but it does well on my desktop(also 4 cores). I don't know what computer system you have, a computer can be considered "out-dated" after two years now and "old" after 5.   

Most of the time I set it to run overnight and get 4 or 5 fractals done all at once, but with fractals, you can never have too much processing power

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…  

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