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Re: [Fractint] OT: Request for Book on Bitmap Graphics
by gnome＠hawaii.rr.com 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

>Hi Mike, > >Am Montag, den 03. März 2003, um 23:44h schrieb Mike Traynor: > >> Would anyone be able to recommend something in the way of a book on >> bitmap graphics for a guy who is >> a professional commercial artist making a very late transition to computer? > >As 'traditional' artist he is probably an experienced sketcher. So software >like Adobe Photoshop Forget Photoshop. Get Painter 7. That's the tool for 'traditional' artists. Photoshop's a tool for prepress imaging production staff and collage workers, not for artists. >and a sketching tablet (like those from Wacom) *Only* those from Wacom. The rest are clunky junk by comparison. (Warning: I've been using Wacom tablets for 8 years now.) >are >suitable for a painless transition. There are many tutorials on >Photoshop on the Internet - a book on Photoshop will also be helpful. Several books and video tapes and online tutorials will be helpful with Photoshop. It has the worst user interface in the graphics business. ;-) >And of course one of these neat digital cameras ... (for doing >collages, ...) > >A 3d-software (like Cinema4D for example) will also be interesting. >Perhaps a less expensive demo-version will do the job ... > >... to frighten him ;-) > >AND OF COURSE A FRACTAL GENERATOR! :-) >let him do some rotations through the fractalus.com 'ifl' web ring. Yes, yes, get him producing some fractals! Someone with so much grapics experience must have a great eye! >regards from Germany... And how is life in Germany right now? David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com >-- >Michael > Weitzel ... all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ... > >_______________________________________________ >Fractint mailing list > >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint >

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Re: [Fractint] History
by Jim Muth 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 at 22:17 Paul Lee wrote: >>Mark A. Freeze wrote: >> >>Isn't history fractal in nature? >Sadly to say, this is true. Humans are forever doomed to >keep iterating the same mistakes over and over again. A poorly developed system, I would say. When we finally realize how we should have lived our lives, it is too late to put our knowledge into practice. And trying to impart our wisdom to our children is equally futile. Whoever or whatever created the human condition, (random evolution according to science), did amazingly well when it developed our fractally intricate bodies. Too bad it fumbled the ball by giving us so little chance to reap the benefits of the often harsh lessons of our lives. Jim (FOTD-CD is progressing) Muth

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Re: Fractint digest, Vol 1 #415 - 4 msgs
by JackOTradez 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Re: History and Philosophy : For those so inclined, if you can dig up the journal "New Scientist" (it's British) either hardcopy at the library or online, find the August 21, 1999 issue. An article describing the entire Universe as a Fractal. Space and Time are chaotic in nature. Every moment in life has ahead of it an infinite number of "forks" or choices. And yes, if History teaches anything, it teaches that it DOES repeat itself (iterate), over and over . . .. ... ..... ........ or put another way - "there is nothing new under the sun . . .. ... ..... ........ " dreams and hallucinations - JoTz

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Re: [Fractint] History
by Mark Christenson 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

At 07:37 AM 3/5/03 -0600, Mr. Freeze wrote: >Isn't history fractal in nature? Certainly, in the same sense as any timeline, including your or my life. Every instant offers a multitude of paths. I am alternately amused and dismayed by the twists and turns *my* timeline takes. Bud

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Missing video parameters
by Stillhard Peter 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Dear sirs I would like to run fractint in 1024x768, 256 colours. My videoard is a GeForce 4 MX-440. Can anybody give me the video parameters for the fractint.cfg file? Thank you in advance. Best regard Peter Stillhard _______________________________________________________________________ Siemens Schweiz AG, Electronic House, DE ID4 Peter Stillhard, EMC Engineer Albisriederstrasse 245, CH-8047 Zürich Telefon +41 (0)585 583 513, Fax +41 (0)585 543 912 mailto:peter.stillhard@siemens.com, Internet: http://www.siemens.ch/ Important Note: This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed or otherwise confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby notified that any review, copying or distribution of it is strictly prohibited. Please inform us immediately and destroy the original transmittal. Thank you for your cooperation.

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OT: Request for Book on Bitmap Graphics
by Mike Traynor 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Fractal folks, Would anyone be able to recommend something in the way of a book on bitmap graphics for a guy who is a professional commercial artist making a very late transition to computer? Mike

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FOTD on vacation
by Jim Muth 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

On Vacation. Having a wonderful time. Lots of work yet to do on the CD. Cats remain unhappy. All else is well. Next FOTD on March 8. Jim M.

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by Howard 01 Mar '03

01 Mar '03

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RE: Confiscation of Domain Names
by Harold Lane 01 Mar '03

01 Mar '03

From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee(a)Worldnet.att.net> Subject: Confiscation of Domain Names > Want to see what happens when the U.S. > Federal Government decides > someone has violated a law and uses a > web site during the process?? > Here is the Domain of someone found > guilty to felony copyright crimes > under the controversial Digital > Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): Please keep posts on the topic of fractals. You risk many people responding to your post and the consequences this brings with it. - Hal Lane hallane @ compuserve.com

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FOTD 01-03-03 (Ring of Fire [5])
by Jim Muth 01 Mar '03

01 Mar '03

FOTD -- March 01, 2003 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: This will be the last daily FOTD until the Fractal Central chores have been finished and the FOTD-CD is ready. I simply do not have the time to do the work than needs to be done and bring the CD to a fully-functional condition while keeping the FOTD going on a daily basis. Until the other work is finished, the new FOTD's will appear on a weekly basis on Saturday evenings Eastern Standard Time, which is five hours behind Greenwich Time. On the other six days, I will be spending my limited spare time catching up on repairs and doing what I should have done at the start to make the FOTD disk fun to use rather than a puzzle. (As a curious side note, the kind of oversights I made in the preparation of the disk are the same kind that I sometimes criticise my custo- mers for making in the jobs they bring.) Today's image combines portions of Z^2, Z^3, Z^4, and Z^5, a combination that has its critical point at zero, making tedious calculation unnecessary. The parent fractal is a rather normal Mandelbrot set surrounded by disconnected satellites. Today's scene is located in a minor valley on a spurious caterpillar- like feature that appears on the negative X-axis, some distance beyond the tip of the main negative stem. I have named the image "Ring of Fire" not because of any volcanic appearance, but because of the brilliant red-and-yellow ring of fractal elements surrounding the midget. The rating of 5 means I consider the image to be merely average. But it is still an interesting scene, perhaps not quite worth the 24 minutes required to render from the parameter file, but still worth the small effort of downloading it from one of the FOTD web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The weather Friday stayed cloudy all day. In the afternoon the temperature rose to 38F 3C, but this just made the snow wet and sloppy -- far too unpleasant for the cats' paws. They passed the day sleeping by the heat and occasionally asking for food. 12-year-old cats are not known for unnecessary activity. As for me, I'm taking a break in the FOTD until the above- mentioned chores are finished and the much-advertised FOTD-CD is ready for distribution. Until next Saturday, take care and have no concern. I am not losing enthusiasm. I will continue to be active on the lists, and the FOTD will resume its daily basis as soon as the other tasks are finished. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com jimmuth(a)aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Ring_of_Fire { ; time=0:24:43.82--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix3a function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-2.99778179408523300/+0.001233816310509\ 62/9557373/1/170/5.11641841047238977e-008 params=1\ /2/0.2/3/0.1/4/0.03/5/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=0 logmap=123 periodicity=10 colors=000AKWAKZAKaAKdAKgAKjAKmBKpFLsKStOYtTctXitV\ SnTBiSIdRO_QUVP_QOeLNkGMqBUiT`aigUz_0Db1Gd2If3Kh4M\ j5Ol5Ql5Tl5Wl5Zl5al5dl5g4m37f49_4CT4EN4HG4J94h34u0\ BvZPwcbxmoszgszauzWszRqzLnzFkzAnoCpeDrXFuNGwDIy4Jx\ 9LwDNvIPvMRuRTtVVtZXnTTiOPdIM_DIV8FR7IO7LK7OH7RD6U\ A6X66_36bq8gjFadMWZTQT_KNfEml8mkzmkL8kR5kY2kc0ki6f\ lBbnHZpMVsSRuXNwaJyeIxiHwlGwpGvsFvwEuzEutGonIihKcb\ MZXOTRQNLRIqEcpGgoHkoInnJrmKvmLyOutYgrgUqpHpeDqV9r\ K6rP8nU9kZBgcCdhEamFYrHVvISqJYlKbgLgbLleIihEgkBdn8\ bq5`lD`gK`bR`ZY`V`YRcVOfTKiQHlODoLArJ6uG3wE7xHBxKF\ yNJyPNySRzVVzYYz_ZyYZyX_yW_yV`xU`xTaxSaxQbxPbwOcwN\ cwMdwLdwKUmCJc5I_BHXHGUMFQSENXDKbCHg68X79Y7AZ8A_8B\ `M_MHXHCTC8Q8BPFDPLGOSIOYKOcNNjPNpRNvLbZGqCFoBEmAD\ lACj9Bh8Ag89e78d77hF6kN5oV4rb3vj2yqCzgMzYVzPdzFmz6\ izFfzNbzV_zbWzjTzr_ztfzumzwtzxqzjnzYjzWfzVbzT_zSWz\ QSzPPzOfzFwz6rzEmzMhzUgzY } frm:MandelbrotMix3a {; Jim Muth z=real(p5), c=fn1(pixel), a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=real(p3), h=imag(p3), j=real(p4), k=imag(p4), l=imag(p5)+100: z=(a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f))+(g*(z^h))+(j*(z^k))+c, |z| <=l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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