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Re: Fractal Lab

#31

Post by joejev » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

The software looks awesome, the combination of your voice and the video was really soothing.

Re: Fractal Lab

#32

Post by amelius » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:25 PM UTC

This is truly amazing. However, I can't help but wonder what the possible uses of this tool are (except for exploring fractals, and making fractal-art).

Re: Fractal Lab

#33

Post by MarkL4 » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:32 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #32

This is truly amazing. However, I can't help but wonder what the possible uses of this tool are (except for exploring fractals, and making fractal-art).

This tools makes inroads on GUIs for procedurally generating extraordinary physical complexity. Ask this again when we need design tools for molecular manufacturing (nanotech).

Re: Fractal Lab

#34

Post by vvpan » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:33 PM UTC

So how does one learn to draw fractals? Any good resources I should check out?

Re: Fractal Lab

#35

Post by QuantumRoar » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:34 PM UTC

joshuapants wrote: post #17

Oh great another site that ruins the OSX back gesture.

Those were some of the most unsatisfying swipes I can remember.

Re: Fractal Lab

#36

Post by anigbrowl » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:38 PM UTC

madez wrote: post #13

The speech in the video is hardly understandable (at least for me). Is there a transcript anywhere? Edit: You seriously think a comment asking for a transcript because the voice seems hard to understand deserves being down voted?

Vimeo videos don't have automatic captioning, unfortunately. If you are finding it hard to hear there may be a problem with your speakers or your hearing. Or possibly your soundcard - check that you're not using some sort of equalizer that's supposed to 'optimize' things for music or so using EQ curves.

If everything else sounds fine and it's only this one video, then I'm not sure what to say. The speaker has a distinctive English accent and a somewhat nasal voice (so it has a somewhat narrow frequency range) but is perfectly understandable for me.

Re: Fractal Lab

#37

Post by joshu » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

I can't select text? Blah

Re: Fractal Lab

#38

Post by yellowapple » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:44 PM UTC

Was it really necessary to implement your own scrollbar? It's absurdly slow (and therefore annoying) on Firefox/Conkeror, and seems entirely redundant when the browser handles scrolling perfectly fine.

Re: Fractal Lab

#39

Post by eigenvalue » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:45 PM UTC

I can't but help to think there might be some commercial potential here-- it looks incredibly fun to play with. Perhaps a free web-app where you can pay to have animations rendered at high resolution server-side and then placed in a Dropbox folder for download. Or something that makes music videos by using audio information to control some of the fractal parameters during an animation.

Re: Fractal Lab

#40

Post by yesbabyyes » Mon, May 04, 2015, 9:48 PM UTC

eigenvalue wrote: post #39

I can't but help to think there might be some commercial potential here-- it looks incredibly fun to play with. Perhaps a free web-app where you can pay to have animations rendered at high resolution server-side and then placed in a Dropbox folder for download. Or something that makes music videos by using audio information to control some of the fractal parameters during an animation.

Perhaps you could seize the opportunity to train yourself not to look for a commercial value, or indeed, any value beyond it's inherent value.

To me it's obvious that this has value in itself; and frankly, I'm surprised you don't appreciate that.