I too want to thank you all who have worked, are working and continue to work on and in Fractint and fractals in general, and who share your work.  I scraped through high school math with a final mark of 50% in Canada in 1985 , *then* discovered fractals.  Glieck's Chaos book was a great joy.  Then a friend introduced me to Fractint in about 1991, and my world has never been the same since.  The possibility of making AND programming new discoveries (such as my finds of infinite tiles of the regular rep-tiles in all dimensions above 1) led me on and on.  Like the boy from 'The Sixth Sense", I too see things... but not dead people:  I see fractals everywhere I look!  My gratitude to you is as large as my enjoyment.

Tony Hanmer
Etseri, Republic of Georgia


On 5 April 2014 08:48, Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net> wrote:
Barry, you are certainly welcome! I share your thanks yous to all the folks you mentioned too.

And by the way, even though I suddenly got silent after discussing booting FreeDos via USB for Fractint, I will put something together, looks worthwhile. That effort just got temporarily pushed down the stack by other higher priority activities. I will resume before too long and finish off the project.

I enjoyed looking up your address in Canberra, and see you live near a park. Well before Fractint was created I used to live on Lefevre Terrace in Adelaide, which faced outward toward a ring of green open space. I can't remember the exact address, but I do remember a park being almost exactly across the street. If you you put "Lefevre Terrace, Adelaide, Australia" into Google Maps, it seems to take you right about where I lived, and there's a park there called Glover Park. What a crazy world we live in, I strolled down Lefevre Terrace with street view trying to recognize the house. The open space and even the small playground looks like I remember.

I think it's near here, at an address in the 50's. This view faces the park:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.904847,138.600217,3a,75y,81.38h,84.8t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sQd1e94OqGvMbwUjK5FSgkg!2e0!6m1!1e1


I saw Paul N Lee's note while I was posting this. Ah so, Compuserve Graphdev! I'm trying to remember if I found Fractint first and then came to Graphdev or the other way around. My memory is that I read Gleick's "Chaos" book, found Bert Tyler and Fractint, then found Graphdev in a search for code to save Fractal images to GIFs. Or it maybe Fractint and Bert were there before me. I do distinctly remember that one of my first contributions was saving fractal information inside the GIF, and adding code to read the image and the fractal data back. In any case, Graphdev was a lively place in those days!

Tim


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Barry Smith <barrys@grapevine.net.au> wrote:

Back on 10 March I made a rare posting to this list.

I was primarily responding to the query from Tim Wegner about the platform, graphics, and monitor that people use.

I said that I am a lurker and I have been subscribed to the Fractint list since 1991, and have followed it closely ever since.

I did say to Albrecht that I greatly enjoy his fractals, as I have for more than twenty years those from Jim Muth.

I also passed my thanks to the Stone Soup group.

My message sparked some correspondence off the list with Hal Lane, mostly about things other than fractals.

In turn this prompts me to say a BIG THANK YOU to

The Stone Soup Group, and those like Tim Wegner who are still working away

Others like Richard who have built new software

All those like Jim Muth, Paul Lee and Hal Lane who have discovered fractals, enhanced them, and maintained great web sites, and now of course Albrecht

People like Jack of Iradez who have posted animations (I especially like those with baroque music)

... and the rest of the Fractint community.

THANK YOU

Barry W Smith

7 Gidabal Street, Aranda ACT 2614, Australia
Tel +61 2 6251 2119
e-mail barrys@grapevine.net.au


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