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Update 2020-02-09 to SDL version
by Jonathan Osuch 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

Folks, Fixed creation of parameter entries (using <b>) that randomly failed. Fixed fractal type menu items that did not return to the currently selected fractal. Changed Arbitrary Precision Math C code to use 32/64 bit routines instead of 16/32 bit routines. Look in the directory: https://www.fractint.org/ftp/experimental/ For: Windows version (32-bit) is: SDL2-fractint-20.05alpha-2020-02-09.zip Pre-compiled 64-bit Linux version is: SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2020-02-09.tar.xz Jonathan

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Archives updating
by Timothy Wegner 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

The archive links for the fractint list are working, but the list archives appear not to be updating. I have asked support about this. While I don't think the low traffic is the problem, we might be advised to post a few more messages in case there's some threshold before newer messages get archived. Tim

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Deep Zoom with a twist
by Bill Jemison 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

"Leon - 2033" Another short video by Thomas Blanchard...quite different from the previous links. https://vimeo.com/105718084

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Interesting videos
by Bill Jemison 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

I recently stumbled onto the works of Thomas Blanchard. I found his work to be absolutely beautiful and mesmerizing. I think all fractal artists will especially enjoy these. Light up! https://vimeo.com/222126220 "Emerald" by Thomas Blanchard https://vimeo.com/299666256 "The Empire of C" by Thomas Blanchard Bill Jemison Audio Fractals <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/home>

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Tiles for AI Training
by Tony Hanmer 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Greetings all, Being that it was through FractInt that I stumbled across the first few of these tiles as L-systems, and then was able out the rules for generating them to countable infinities, I should post a link here to my article on them in Recreational Mathematics Magazine, along with HUGE thanks to the makers and developers of this amazing program! Best, Tony Hanmer https://content.sciendo.com/configurable/contentpage/journals$002frmm$002f6…

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Blast from the past - XP lives and can build Fractint!
by Timothy Wegner 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

I'm guessing many on this mailing list are of a certain age like I am, so you might appreciate this story. I'm a (very old and slow) runner, and hurt my knee about a month ago, so had a lot of extra time on my hands while I recovered. (I'm back to 15 miles a week or so, and doing fine, thanks.) So with the extra time not running I decided to tackle organizing the many old hard drives I have lying around. I have built a number of computers over the years, and always built them with removable drives. My oldest working computer has one parallel ATA Lian Li caddy, and I have a bunch of drives that fit it. One 80 gb drive has a note that it ran XP but I assumed it was for my old XP machine that died a while ago, along with my last working Fractint build environment. My ancient memory is that XP does not do well booting on the wrong computer, but for no good reason, I tried booting the drive. Voila! XP came up along with a working Fractint build environment! From the time stamps, looks like this was last booted about five years ago! I am not clear if this drive ran XP on the now-dead computer, or if it worked with the "newer" vintage 2007 computer I tried it on. I'm guessing the latter, since it booted with no obvious issues. In any case, I can now build the classic DOS fractint. I don't want to mislead anyone, I'm not about to suddenly resume developing the classic Fractint, and I'm not sure I want to get sucked into all the issues surrounding an old OS like Windows XP. That said, it gives me a certain nostalgic pleasure to know I can. Jonathan has largely avoided this by working with the newer Windows SDL environment. I don't even know if he could compile the DOS fractint if he was so inclined. Tim

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