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Re: Fractal Lab

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I've never heard of any of these people, but I have a strange impulse to buy some iOS app called Frax. ...Wait! No. No, I don't.

You should, I've played with it and it's quite amazing! Edit: Here is one of the other creators talking about it a bit more: http://kai.subblue.com/en/frax.html

I think you missed my point.

I don't like advertising, and that whole website is a particularly nefarious form of it.

"Buy FRAX! Douglas Adams would have!" Oh, ffs.

Re: Fractal Lab

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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).

Not to mention, it's beautiful. Not everything needs to have a practical use.

Re: Fractal Lab

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Note to author: I didn't bother to read the page because scrolling and navigating was horridly broken. Do not hijack the scrollbar and/or mouse navigation.

Strange. I could scroll using the scrollbar or two-finger scroll-gestures on the trackpad (plus by dragging the text, which is unusual) and I'm using Chrome for OSX. What platform are you on that has this problem?

Windows and Linux.

Scroll is broken due to author. Did not read content due to scroll-hijack.

Re: Fractal Lab

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No, the narrator is definitely whispering.

I could easily understand him, but yes, the narrator sounds like he's almost falling asleep, or he is recording in a room with a sleeping baby and doesn't want to wake it. I assume your comment is receiving so much resistance because apparently a lot of people find his voice "soothing", and people don't realize that a soothing voice is not necessarily the best for communicating information.

But why - for everything good in this world - would they down-vote then?

Re: Fractal Lab

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> Fractal Lab is my {NOT AZEIRAH'S} personal technical and creative canvas where I can explore ideas freely in my own time without obligations and support commitments, so for the moment it isn't available online or for local installation. I have some project ideas I first want to fully explore using Fractal Lab, after that I'll probably release the code. This is on his site soo... someday maybe

Failing that, his main page promotes the iOS app FRAX. Any opinions/experience about it?

I paid the $4 and got it. Slick & entertaining. Not as hard-core math-ish as I'd like, but fun to zoom around in. There's in-app "pro upgrade", which I find a bit irritating if that's where the greater numeric control & deeper resolution resides.

Re: Fractal Lab

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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.

Also the home and end buttons on the keyboard don't work.

Re: Fractal Lab

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> Fractal Lab is my {NOT AZEIRAH'S} personal technical and creative canvas where I can explore ideas freely in my own time without obligations and support commitments, so for the moment it isn't available online or for local installation. I have some project ideas I first want to fully explore using Fractal Lab, after that I'll probably release the code. This is on his site soo... someday maybe

Failing that, his main page promotes the iOS app FRAX. Any opinions/experience about it?

I suppose it has 2D fractals only, my Haswell CPU struggles with 3D fractals already - I wish I had a experience as smooth as in fractal lab.

Re: Fractal Lab

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post #88

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You should, I've played with it and it's quite amazing! Edit: Here is one of the other creators talking about it a bit more: http://kai.subblue.com/en/frax.html

I think you missed my point. I don't like advertising, and that whole website is a particularly nefarious form of it. "Buy FRAX! Douglas Adams would have!" Oh, ffs.

What?

I had to go back and see if we were looking at the same website. I don't think we were.

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