So how exactly does Electric Sheep work? Is this an automated function or did you make these?

>>1291

Electric Sheep is a screen saver which allows the users to vote on fractal flame animations generated from definition files with sets of numbers in them (the genomes). The system works like a genetic algorithm, using votes as a fitness function to determine which genomes get to breed the next generation of fractals. The fractal flame defining numbers are mixed together and new fractals are produced. Interpolating between the numbers in the definition files generates animations which move in shape and colour between distinct fractal animations producing constantly changing fractals. I am taking the definition files generated by the breeding in the screen saver and rerendering the first frame of each animation in high resolution.

Fucking.Wow.
Good job, OP

A very cool one indeed, but needs more activity.

Here's moar.

Moar.

Nice job, they look awesome :D

Here's another one that just finished rendering, hope ya' like it.

Skull Intrusion: http://www.mediafire.com/?mzka73npix1

Any actual constructive critisism (Not just 'OMG YUO SUCK LOLOLOL F U MAN HAHA') would be apreciated :D

Here's another one called Grey Matter, only took 5 mins ot render unlike some other ones that took 2 hours. I like making these :D

Grey Matter: http://www.mediafire.com/?msktmyz4658

Here's another one called One-Oh-Five Precent.
It's based off the scene in the game Half Life when the Resonance Cascade happens, hope there are some half life fans here :D

One-Oh-Five Percent: http://www.mediafire.com/?7aplze2zl2a

>the really interesting part is the inequality constraint of the number of branches to the radii ratio ... since that is ultimately what governs whether the series for each is convergent or divergent...

It would be neat if there was some sort of geometric constraint that correlated with that. Other than just whether the thing had infinite volume/surface area or not. Like if somehow it were impossible to fit too many spheres without some overlapping depending on the ratio of the radii. In fact I bet there is some sort of rule that could be derived.

>>1225

well.. there is.. ^_^ that's what I was saying in my corollary about a linear viewpoint... since it is impossible for such a figure to have infinite volume.. the point at which the volume series is divergent, the spheres begin to tou.... (oh.. damn.. i c wat u did thar... ) ... anyway, yes, they begin to intersect at the constraint given in that proof... but yes.. it is very cool

>>1184
that's what the "iterations" setting is for in a typical fractal generator program. Also they'll tend to stop once they get down to the single-pixel level, as it's pointless beyond that. Though as POV (or any other half decent 3D rendering package) does sub-pixel rendering to prevent jaggies, you might need to compute down to, say, 1/4 of a pixel. Still, that's merely the same as upping the resolution x4 rather than going to infinity.

and that's why I think there's been a slight miscalculation in the surface area / volume thing here. The series may go on infinitely, but I don't think that the SA / V are infinite - they're merely forever approaching a certain end value whilst the step taken with each iteration is ever smaller, so it never quite reaches it. There's a name for that kind of thing that I just can't remember right now - similar to an inverse square or the like. If it really was infinite then the entire scene would be taken up with the fuckin' thing, rather than there being any empty space.

>>1210
yes, this thread is INFINITELY gay

PS, /r/ HI REZ FFS
last time I saw a POV rendered at 512 pixel rez it was on my own 486 waybackwhen. Or it might even have been some render of a 3-D pacman I did on my Atari ST (leaving it running for about 2 full days) as 512x384 was the highest rez uncompressed true-colour image you could fit on a DSDD floppy. Up that shit, come on, we have gigahertzes these days.

>>1238

why are there spoiler tags on a fractal board?

>>1241
choose your own comeback
because you touch yourself at night
because you have AIDS
because your mom's a slut
i dunno, lol

>>1241

Because they're a global feature, fucktard.

depends on the fractal.

for those uber chaotic ones, prolly something more chaotic itself, like idustrial or something.

then there are those soft fractals, to which i say trance, perhaps even house.

Meshuggah and Philip Glass. Listening to Meshuggah as I browse /fr/, it's perfect.

Hmmm.
Jarre, probably.
Or any one of a large number of chiptunes (particularly mad max, dubmood, whitacker or 505 ftw), the more hardcore electronic and deviously complex the better.

Or to rule over all of them, the random-cum-fractal auto rhythms output by a couple of programs I've long since lost - Windchimes For Windows (fucking hella old, 3.1 era, used midi... or adlib...), and a WAV/VOC music generator for DOS that put out sort of ambient/trance/techno stuff depending on how you tweaked its initial values.

Also, PIXLES

i prefer to render fractals huge like xbox then resize with bicubic resampling, you keep more detail than blurring (anistrophic diffusion = fancy blurr)

render at least 2x both dimensions (4x total size) and if your machine can handle it go with around 5x each dimension for a 25x total size.

also if you are blending layers make sure to flatten your image before you resample down to your target resolution.

One more iteration in the Julia set-now this is just brain-crash worthy.

Chaoscape btw.

I didn't realise anyone knew this board was still here. Nice work.