a couple of fractal type links

[palms]

Just recently i have seen these mentioned a lot and thought i would pass them on, They are free ( for now )

Colarity
I have tried this one and quite enjoyed it,


Incendia I havent tried this one as you need a 3d graphic card and i assume i havent got one ( must check though


any one else have any links then please add them

Palms

[Kraellin]

palms, where did you see a requirement of a 3d vid card?

and thanks! these look interesting

[Xaran]

Under requirements.

Christine

[Kraellin]

ok, i tried incendia. pretty cool. it's fairly intuitive and works without any other 3d programs. i think this one has some pretty good potential. it installed without a hitch on my win7, 64bit system and worked fine on the first run. there's lots of buttons and switches, you can save your favorite parameters and, though i didnt try it, i believe you can save off your renditions. the whole is like a mini-3d program but for creating some fractals. you can spin them and roll them and look at them like with any 3d program. pretty cool

[palms]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

ok, i tried incendia. pretty cool. it's fairly intuitive and works without any other 3d programs. i think this one has some pretty good potential. it installed without a hitch on my win7, 64bit system and worked fine on the first run. there's lots of buttons and switches, you can save your favorite parameters and, though i didnt try it, i believe you can save off your renditions. the whole is like a mini-3d program but for creating some fractals. you can spin them and roll them and look at them like with any 3d program. pretty cool

I am really jealous now, sounds like real fun, Looking at some of the renditions people have are spectacular


Just a note on Colarity i found it faster and not such a pc hog as other fractal generators ( but plenty of dials and big words )

Palms

palms

[lkroll]

How old is your system Palms. Most modern PCs younger then 3 years old support 3D and GPU excellerations. Even AND supports SSE2 support. I'm using a motherboard with onboard Video based on NVidia's 6150se. I'm downloading it now. If it runs fine, I'll post a sample and let you know. My PC's 2008 Vintage (barebones) AMD64 by the way.

Well, decided to not post until after I ran it. Not bad (little slow, but faster then some of the other fractal programs that I've played with; supports multi-processor too which is cool). Attached is sample that I let run for around a minute (resized down from 2048x2048 to 1000x1000). Go ahead and give it a try I say Palms.

[lkroll]

Why not another; forgot to drop the render size (2048x2048 still). Let this one run for aroun 3 to 5 minutes before saving it. Really like this one Palms and do appreciate that you passed this link to us. I call this one a simulated virus.

[palms]

they are cool Lyle and can see why you named the second one simulated virus, was that colarity or incendia ? you used

my pc is about 3 years old so i will have to look into the video card thingy

Palms

[secretagents]

Incendia runs on very low specs system, well underneath what you'd expect when you view the website. I think all it needs is an OpenGL capable graphic card and they all are AFAIK even very old ones. I think when I first installed version 1.3 some time ago I had only an old Geforce 2 MX 400 and it did run without problems. As for the operating system, it runs fine on my Windows Millennium system so don't be shy Palms and install that, it'll run on your system without problems I guess. The new version 1.4 has a superb 3D export feature btw, quite a bit of alearning curve to get to grip to all the this program can do though but there a solid online documentation.

Btw I thought I'd mention two other IMO superb free 3D fractal software as you all seem interested in that stuff, Mandelbulb 3D and Mandelbulber.

You can grab Mandelbulb 3D on the Fractal Forums: http://www.fractalforums.com/index.p...a=view;down=13

One of the first render I made with it and posted there under the "blob" moniker got some elogious praise on a fractal blog (shameless self-promotion): http://orbittrap.ca/?p=1379

Mandelbulber can be downloaded from Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/ and I recommend you watch the amazing videos the guy who wrote it makes with it: http://www.youtube.com/user/xlace#p/a

Cheers.

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by palms1

they are cool Lyle and can see why you named the second one simulated virus, was that colarity or incendia ? you used

my pc is about 3 years old so i will have to look into the video card thingy

Palms

Incendia Palms. I bet your PC is more then adequate to run this program. Still requires processing time (the simulated virus I ran for around 5 minutes before exporting the png file and then resized in GIMP (what else; lol). I haven't played with the size settings, but if I could choose something smaller then 2048x2048 (apparently the default dims), the processing would probably be a lot faster.

To secretagents, I played with Mandelbulber a few months back but it crashed. They might have fixed it since I believe at least 2 additional updates occurred since I last tried it.

[palms]

Secretagents thanks for all the info and links your render is awesome

Lyle thanks for the feedback

when i get chance ( or am bored whichever comes first) i will give incendia a try out

I and i think i am not on my own in this love fractals and can play for hours messing with all the sliders etc etc but havent the foggiest what i am doing or how i get there, in fact there are a lot of words bandied around i have to look up and the mention of maths puts loads of people off ! which is a shame. what i say is dont worry about it just play with the sliders and see what occurs

unless any one wants to take on the "teaching fractals for dummies " role

Palms

[lkroll]

Well Palms; you definitely made a monster out of me. lol

[palms]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Well Palms; you definitely made a monster out of me. lol

Those get a big WOW from me

palms

[lkroll]

Thanks Palms; now that I've figured a few more things out with it, it is surprisingly fast; much faster then any of the other 3D Fractal programs that I've played with in the past. These both I only ran less then 5 minutes (maybe not even 2; just didn't keep up with the time). I now like my knew toy and hope hey figure out a business model where it can remain a poor man's toy.

[lkroll]

Spear of Destiny


Used Incendia to create the spearhead and GIMP for the rod (botched that of course; lol). Still having fun. You definitely made a monster out of me Palms. lol

[Kraellin]

how you getting color into your fractals, lyle? all i can get is b&w so far. are you using the Incendia HZ program or the other Incendia?

[lkroll]

Go to the Render option and play with the icons (see screenshot) for color shading. To get the dimensional choices, you need to click on editors, choose the baseshapes button and click new. Better then that, a lot of presets are available. Click Fractals, and then click load and pick one of the Par files and you will be amazed (as I was). Again, just play. I am now realizing that I'm still suckling on milk. This program is quite overwhelming the more that I experiment with it. Does cause my PC fan to get louder when I use the program (assuming that it must be taxing my system for sure) the the results that I've been getting really don't take long to do to execute.

[Kraellin]

ok, that worked a charm, lyle. starting to get the hang of it now

[lkroll]

Like the urchin Craig. Man I like this gem.

[Kraellin]

thanks

yeah, it is pretty slick and much more involved than i first thought, too.

[TPF]

I am 99% sure you all know of this program, but I thought I'd post it just in case.
Look up Apophysis 3D Hack. I'd post a link but on my phone and it is being annoying.

[palms]

Thanks TPF

here is one link i have found at DA that lists a few resources

http://news.deviantart.com/article/35595/

Palms