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Started by Cramulus, November 26, 2008, 09:23:56 PM

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so if you leave this program rendering all night, it can produce some pretty bad ass images:




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Love the fractals. Fractals are cool. Wasn't Greg Hill one of the first programmers to work with fractals?

Anyone know of a cheap (or free; I like free) fractal program that lets you make them from scratch?

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Quote from: Cramulus on December 01, 2008, 09:26:08 PM
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Who originally made the horse? It seems to be a tradition to use it in Intermittens issues.

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Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 20, 2009, 04:18:32 PM
Love the fractals. Fractals are cool. Wasn't Greg Hill one of the first programmers to work with fractals?

If he was, I did not know that. You mean our greg hill? Google sez there's a professor in Texas named Greg Hill who uses fractals in his class, but I can't find any other references


QuoteAnyone know of a cheap (or free; I like free) fractal program that lets you make them from scratch?

depends on what you mean by "make htem from scratch"... you can tinker with the equations, palette, zoom, etc in just about any fractal generator.

all the fractals ITT were made with ChaosPro or Apophysis. Both of them are free and have a lot of community support. Lots of fun, too.


QuoteWho originally made the horse? It seems to be a tradition to use it in Intermittens issues.

I actually don't know where the horse came from. As far as I know, It's just some floatsam from the net. The WOMP cabal was obssessed with that pony for a few months and we used it in a lot of art (like that fractal piece, above). The reason it occurs so much in intermittens is probably because people snag IM art from the WOMP Cabal vault, and the donkey ones are a little bit more coherent (kinda) than most of the other images in the vault.

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It's weird... I really LIKE the images I've been making with apophysis, but they're almos too easy. ChaosPro took me a few days to get the hang of. Creating a really cool looking image took a lot of searching, and then a lot of fine tuning.

In Apophysis you can generate great looking images by cycling through random seeds. You just browse through seeds until you find one you like, and then pick a palette, maybe zoom, and you're done. Sure there's scripts and stuff you can do to customize your fractal further, but you can't really fine tune your image so much as you make very broad changes. and then you just grab your monitor and shake until it produces something you're happy with.

Maybe it's just because I'm such a novice I'm blind to the myriad of really complex things this program can do.




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Quote from: Cramulus on May 20, 2009, 04:29:17 PM
Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 20, 2009, 04:18:32 PM
Love the fractals. Fractals are cool. Wasn't Greg Hill one of the first programmers to work with fractals?

If he was, I did not know that. You mean our greg hill? Google sez there's a professor in Texas named Greg Hill who uses fractals in his class, but I can't find any other references


QuoteAnyone know of a cheap (or free; I like free) fractal program that lets you make them from scratch?

depends on what you mean by "make htem from scratch"... you can tinker with the equations, palette, zoom, etc in just about any fractal generator.

all the fractals ITT were made with ChaosPro or Apophysis. Both of them are free and have a lot of community support. Lots of fun, too.


QuoteWho originally made the horse? It seems to be a tradition to use it in Intermittens issues.

I actually don't know where the horse came from. As far as I know, It's just some floatsam from the net. The WOMP cabal was obssessed with that pony for a few months and we used it in a lot of art (like that fractal piece, above). The reason it occurs so much in intermittens is probably because people snag IM art from the WOMP Cabal vault, and the donkey ones are a little bit more coherent (kinda) than most of the other images in the vault.
Thanks, Cramulus. I got to make me some fractals.

I was thinking, though.  From the very little I know, fractals apparently became big in the 1970s, just about the time "Modern Art" was fading into the past.  If one of those abstract artists somehow got hold of a program that made fractals back in the 1950s or so, he or she could have made a bundle on prints.  Critics would probably praise the artist's amazing creativity.

One other question: is there hardware/software that allows you to literally paint a digital image?

Cramulus

Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 21, 2009, 05:41:36 PM
One other question: is there hardware/software that allows you to literally paint a digital image?

yes, it is the blessed program Microsoft Paint

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Quote from: Cramulus on May 21, 2009, 05:45:50 PM
Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 21, 2009, 05:41:36 PM
One other question: is there hardware/software that allows you to literally paint a digital image?

yes, it is the blessed program Microsoft Paint

it is the way and the light



and the wrath


the WRATH




Thanks for the tip.  But I'm thinking in terms of literally putting paint on a canvas.  I'm not planning on going out and buying the hardware and software that would be required to do such a thing; I'm just curious if the technology exists.

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Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 21, 2009, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 21, 2009, 05:45:50 PM
Quote from: Sheered Völva on May 21, 2009, 05:41:36 PM
One other question: is there hardware/software that allows you to literally paint a digital image?

yes, it is the blessed program Microsoft Paint

it is the way and the light



and the wrath


the WRATH




Thanks for the tip.  But I'm thinking in terms of literally putting paint on a canvas.  I'm not planning on going out and buying the hardware and software that would be required to do such a thing; I'm just curious if the technology exists.

I had an idea a while back that I still haven't put into practice. Involved taking an image and reducing the palette to maybe 8 or 16 colours then magnifying it until each pixel was a fairly large square and numbering these in a grid. Next thing is reproduce the grid dimensions on a wall and then paint in the squares in corresponding colours.

I figure if the squares/pixels on the wall were about 2 inches across it would look pretty abstract from close up but you'd see the picture clearly from a bit of a distance.

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