On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:04 PM, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
It took Fracton 57 hours to make the model on my 2 core PowerPC Mac.
You need a faster Mac!
The flight's nice. Might look more fractal if you could give the srufaces some kind of "fractal-looking" texture in Cheetah 3D.
My main Mac is a newer 8 core one that is about 5x faster. For those really long jobs, I use the old one that has been moved to the basement. When I run Fracton on the main computer, it makes the computer sluggish when doing other things. Maybe next year it will be time to upgrade to a 16 core computer if its not too expensive. The current Mac models only go up to 12 cores which doesn't seem like a big enough difference to justify the expense. I was kind of going for the non-fractal look on that image. The zoomed out view is very fractal like. I didn't show it because I didn't want to reveal the path of the movie. I liked Jim's original colors so I didn't change it. -- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org