Show HN: Fractal.parts – View and design fractals

Post by sjf » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC

vosper wrote: post #4

epenson wrote: post #2

Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

Firstly, I think this is a cool idea. Fractals are fun to look at and play with. Please take this feedback as being positively-intentioned :) During the tutorial I clicked Add and some boxes were created. I dragged them around on the canvas. I have no concept of how the resulting image [0] relates to what I created. It doesn't look like the kind of fractals (Mandelbrot etc) that I'm familiar with. I also didn't figur…

Post by fractallyte » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:48 AM UTC

jrk wrote: post #12

Nice work! @epenson: unfortunately, it only took a few hours for someone to create https://fractal.parts/swastika and get it on the gallery :(

Post by epenson » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

epenson wrote: post #14

TimTheTinker wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's my try. Any idea why it didn’t result in the Sierpinsky triangle? https://fractal.parts/test-a1d7 I can't seem to create more than 1 box of the same color.

Thanks for giving the site a try! Simple answer: the shapes in your template are too small. Try scaling the squares to 1/2 the size of that larger, white square in the center. This can be seen in the template for https://fractal.parts/sierpinski . Each shape that you add is a transformation from the base shape. The base shape is that large, white square that appears when you first head to fractal.parts/create. The tr…

Post by dmje » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

suyash wrote: post #8

EventH- wrote: post #5

It would be really nice if the tutorial walked you through creating a sample simple fractal, like the Sierpinski triangle or Koch snowflake.

Yes, tried to create but due to lack of instructions and poor UX abandoned the site quickly.