Re: The NickFrac screensaver, or How I Broke My Brain
- Posted by prickle Aug 10, 2009
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Hey, Nick, I'm just enjoying your handiwork. I love the way you can take the preview and drag it out. The saved fractals are instant, now, and you can just keep generating one type over and over and save any great-looking results. I wondered if one could be used to generate the basis for a new icon for Euphoria that others are doing!
Fabulous. All working then. As far as the icon is concerned, anybody is free to do whatever they please with the generated images. There are no issues with copyright or ownership, I consider any image one generates as your own artwork. If in fact somebody does like a fractal enough to make a logo with it, I'd be chuffed.
I love the fact that someone is doing something with a PC other than try and make it connect to another using a network. It seems that the major requirement for computers and software these days is to get them communicating. Otherwise what the machine does is relatively minor. I write software for PICs - microcontrollers - to control systems, which I find quite satisfying. A PC I use for editing/compiling and then playing - and what you have been doing as a hobby is brilliant stuff.
LOL agreed networking is the current fashion. Mind you fractals were pretty popular probably 10 years back when scientists were trying to use them to explain life and stuff. Personally, I see fractals as a kind of something for nothing, pretty pictures from a handful of almost random numbers. Oh, and I'm an AVR man myself. Another of my technical hobbies.
Yes, I'd be happy to test your code; when it is as simple as bunging a *.scr into Windows and spending a happy lunchtime testing it out, no bother. Send them to andy hat kestreltelecom with a dot in the obvious place, and I'll get them with my emails even if I'm too busy to go on to the forum.
Sure thing. Thanks again for your lunchtimes.
I will think about thumbnails, but I shall have to grab your pixel-drawing code to make it half-fast. You already have done most of the work by drawing a fractal in the small preview window, so maybe it won't be so bad. I can see my lunchtimes getting used up - so much for my usual games of computer snooker! If anyone else wants to try, though, I will not be offended, of course.
No problem. I will post you some info and we should probably start collaborating directly to save the forum from all those gory details. We have much to discuss.
Cheers,
Nick.
