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So how does one learn to draw fractals? Any good resources I should check out?
The math is going to be easily portable.
Oh great another site that ruins the OSX back gesture.
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I'd be interested to know if you can give a coherent account of what "value in itself" actually means. Because from at least one interpretation - 'value in itself' means that it is not valued because it has a use in the production of something else which is valuable, but valued for its own sake. And on this definition it doesn't rule out having commercial value at all, since having commercial value simply means that…
Personally I find that I have to go to myself in these matters. So, a thing has value in itself if I find it valuable just as it is. Not in the sense "I want to own it", neither the sense of "I want to extract something other out of it", nor what you are alluding to, that it's useful for making something else. So if I say "this is valuable", then nobody can remove that value by saying "no it's not", that just means,…
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.
I know I'm dating myself by posting this. Tom, the creator is associated with Kai Krause, creator of some cool graphics software a long time ago... http://kai.subblue.com/en/contact.html
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Personally I find that I have to go to myself in these matters. So, a thing has value in itself if I find it valuable just as it is. Not in the sense "I want to own it", neither the sense of "I want to extract something other out of it", nor what you are alluding to, that it's useful for making something else. So if I say "this is valuable", then nobody can remove that value by saying "no it's not", that just means,…
Oh okay - so you're talking about product which is intrinsically valuable to its creator, irrespective of it's potential intrinsic value to others. Seems reasonable... don't know if I agree with your larger thesis... but it is an interesting discussion. :)
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.
I have a weird issue in Chrome where setting the video volume causes the page to scroll down until only the lower half of the video was visible. I am unable to scroll back up and have to refresh the page.
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?
I know I'm dating myself by posting this. Tom, the creator is associated with Kai Krause, creator of some cool graphics software a long time ago... http://kai.subblue.com/en/contact.html
Incredible. In the 90s we had rendering software that took about 10 minutes to general a single 2D fractal. I loved playing with it. When I went to university, as part of a course, we watched a video where someone had created animations by adjusting a single parameter of the (2D) fractal over time. They'd spent untold hours of processing time to generate the frames. It was magical because it helped to offer insights…
Disclaimer: I wrote the original version for my MSc project 7 years ago. Future students added further improvements in later years, including notably creating two Android apps. All versions are free and open source software.
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ed.inf.m... - Android app port, by Alasdair Corbett
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.bunnies.fra... - Updated Android app (Fractal Maps), by Sky Welch
- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/mandelbrot-maps/ - Original Mandelbrot Maps (Java applet), by me
- Wadler's blog: http://wadler.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/fractal-maps.html | http://wadler.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/mandelbrot-and-julia-su... | http://wadler.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/mandelbrot-maps.html