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Stephen Hawking
by Bill Jemison 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

The recent passing of Stephen Hawking has filled me with a great sense of loss. He was an unbelievable inspiration and explorer of the universes - both inward and outward. This audio fractal, which I first created in 1999, is dedicated to him. "Requiem" <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/mp3-files/requiem-1999> Headphones or high quality speakers are recommended. Enjoy! Bill Jemison Audio Fractals <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/home>

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Re: [Fractint] none
by Jonathan Osuch 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:33 -0700, John Wilson wrote: > Been driving myself crazy trying to get your > stuff to run in the SDL version of Fractint. I need to get the fast parser running. It is in assembly language and I thought I would start with something simple like the Mandelbrot set assembly code. Turns out it isn't so simple. I haven't figured out the calling convention for calling a C function from the assembly code. I have it working under Linux in a 64-bit environment, but it crashes whenever the video mode is changed (like on startup). I took a brief look at it under Windows (a 32-bit environment) but it won't assemble and/or doesn't create the correct type of object file to link with. Now that I have a small amount of experience with the current environments and using assembly language, I will try the parser assembly code. It doesn't make any calls to C routines. As a historical note, I had the fast parser assembly code assembling and running with Xfractint but it wouldn't display an image. I never tracked down what the problem was. So, I actually have a reasonable starting point (other than the change from 32-bit to 64-bit). Jonathan

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none
by Albrecht Niekamp 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Quitting All links deleted

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Mandelbrot_Exploration_Test
by Albrecht Niekamp 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Mandelbrot_Exploration_Test ; Something like this has never been done - 5 different Mandelbrot incidents in one image - and the pictures are new and absolutely unique. Nevertheless there is hardly any feedback. IÂ´m asking myself if it makes any sense to go on, but maybe you just do not want to comment. So even if that is so please mail a short note that you want me to go on.Otherwise this ends now, although the most exciting fractal adventures are still ahead. ; To the image: Mandel or Magnet? In fact it looks more like a Magnet image, the frm is available too. Using 3 different warpeffects for the first time, Cabs, Flip, Log. They fit together and are responsible for the Julia-like X-symmetry of the parent. ; https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgaEYKJUMW5k-Ps1N9A ; Albrecht ; ------------------------------Start Par------------------ 22222d11 { ; Mandel_or_Magnet? ; Warp: Cabs_Flip_Log ; Time 0.28.52.73 Reso 1280/1024 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=cabs/flip/exp/log passes=t center-mag=-0.47888076119537740/-0.08040122168534518/9244.183/1/-145.000\ 000000002444/-5.27933252669754438e-012 params=-0.05825983458967864/0.3785210730307932/22222.64595731838/11234.4\ 911030602/152048.0404808048/1536.1604894048/384.0003500001/256.101768300\ 1/512.1007683001/768.1008333001 float=y maxiter=3071 inside=maxiter periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 sound=off colors=2000FK<3>09C08A068<2>022000211<21>icNkeOmfP<3>unTwpVxqWzsX<25>CB7\ A96875<3>000400<23>o00q00s00<3>z00<25>C00A00800<3>000<23>fffgggiiijjjlll\ <3>sss<25>BBB999777<2>222000012<22>0_k0am0bo0cq<3>0jx0kz0jx<19>0HM }

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Zooms into Albrecht's 2018-03-17 22222X18.GIF image
by Harold Lane 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Albrecht helped me set up WinXP running in Oracle's VirtualBox virtual machine. It's running on my Win10 desktop. WinXP's support of the DOS environment allows me to run DOS Fractint and send the images back to Win10 thru a surprisingly easily set up network share. Below are some zooms into Albrecht's 2018-03-17 22222X18.GIF image. Full size viewing is -- usually -- best. However, the single pixels appear too bright in many of these images. I wish I could anti-alias them all to reduce that effect. My images are investigations. However, the next to the last image I've labeled: "Artistic Image"... I hope you enjoy my "investigations." Albrecht's image: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222X18.GIF The material inside Albrecht's bloody Mandeloid figure at center drew my attention: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H19.GIF The spiky figure at upper left in H19 - enlarged: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H20.GIF In the upper left corner of H20 is a linear structure on a diagonal, here enlarged and rotated to be horizontal: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H21.GIF The purple areas with arms extending from them in H21 and H22 remind me of poorly-formed spiral galaxies with spiral arms that don't wind very tightly: I had reached the maximum zoom capability of DOS Fractint formula precision. http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H22.GIF So, I thought I'd look at the parent fractal of all these images: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H23.GIF Half the parent fractal rotated 90 degrees: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H24.GIF A tiny area bridging the left and right halves on the center line of H24 has two needles poking in from the left and right at the top into a familiar-looking image: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H25.GIF One of the needles in H25: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H26.GIF The structures along the top left end of the needle in H26 are quite colorful -- and in a colorful area: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H27.GIF In the black area on the right in H27 are some purple tendrils: I've always been intrigued by how tendrils in fractals almost always seem to "know" how to avoid one another, while doing a graceful dance acknowledging one another's presence. http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H28.GIF The largest red bay at the bottom of H28 has lots of stuff surrounding and invading it: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H29.GIF Just above the red bay is another quie small needle-like structure (gold and green) extending towards a gold nugget with red velvet surrounding it: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H30.GIF Artistic Image =========== I feel like this image has a little more artistic merit to it: Also, the two nested circles are seemimgly tangent at their lower right, where they are inconveniently interrupted. The circles are bays that have extremely densely packed, high order, tiny bays around their perimeters. Disclaimer: I surgically excised ~12 color map entries of very dark charcoal hues that were inside the black bays. With that solid-black background, the gold and red lace-work feels a bit like gold filigree and cloisonne to me. (Truth be known, I enjoy seeing this image better with it being slightly down-sampled by my browser. Shhh! Don't tell anyone!) I have yet to be able to make Disk Video images in my virtual machine-based DOS Fractint, otherwise, I might anti-alias a version of this image... http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H32.GIF At the far left edge of H32 seemed to be an area worth investigating: It turned out to be the battle-line drawn between two different fractal types. It's hard to say who's going to win... http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR_14_2/22222H33.GIF I'm behind on looking into Albrecht's more recent images. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane(a)earthlink.net ######################## --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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22222x18
by Albrecht Niekamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

22222x18 ; https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgaEUqqaMBE8L2sEASw ; Albrecht ; ------------------------------------------------Start-Par-------------------------------- 22222x18 { ; The_sacred_Mandelbrot ; acos - sinus ; time 0.39.12.74 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=acos/exp/exp/sin passes=t center-mag=-1.61826643194426000/-0.11540554092525880/5.917438e+009/1/-12\ 2.499999820492945/-1.23607867889632961e-005 params=-0.05825983458967864/0.3785210730307932/22222.64595711338/11111.4\ 911030602/152048.0404808048/1071.1604894048/384.0003500001/256.100768300\ 1/512.1007683001/768.1007683001 float=y maxiter=3071 inside=maxiter periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 sound=off colors=000220<7>110110000110<2>000KA4<7>gcOjgRmjT<3>zzc<9>UOFRKDOGA<3>A0\ 0<9>f0Ci0Dl0F<3>z0K<6>Z0EV0DR0C<3>A08004000<26>000<4>000<7>Q0UU0YX0a_0dc\ 0hf0l<2>p0w<4>_0dX0aU0Y<2>K0NH0JG0NE1R<3>7UX6`Z4h_2oa0wc<10>2WI2TG2RE<3>\ 4G54D36F5<16>kkammcpoe<3>zwm<3>mhZjdVfaS<3>VMCRI8OE4KA0000<43>000<4>0003\ 30<2>330 }

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Sound with Fractint
by Bill Jemison 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

As some of you here know, I have been involved with fractint and its sound producing feature for many years - off and on since the early 1990s. I have always been intrigued with watching the orbits as each point is calculated and listening to the sounds produced by the results of each of those orbital calculations. The earliest iterations of the fractint program only allowed for very rudimentary sounds via the PC speaker - basically buzzes. Back in those days there very few sound cards and they were very expensive and difficult to configure - basically, computers then were just not powerful enough to handle sound adequately and recording to disk was very problematic...i/o just wasn't fast enough. My first recordings were actually made by pulling the PC case off my trusty 286 and dangling a cheap-o Tandy mic (attached to a hand held cassette recorder) over the speaker. My very earliest recordings had audible background noises like TV, dogs, wife, etc. to go with the fan noise. Awkward and ugly. So I was forced to upgrade to a 386w/math coprocessor and a Gravis sound card. Fractint still didn't use the soundcard, but I was able to record. But I wanted more flexibility with the sound and decided that if I could somehow convert .wav files to midi that I could use different midi instruments for playback. I know some of you may be laughing at that desire to do .wav->.mid conversion - I didn't know any better. The fractint development team came to my rescue and we worked to get the orbitsave=sound parameter implemented. Utilizing that feature I was able to sledgehammer together a program that converted that output, utilizing a program I wrote (long lost to hd failure and faulty backups) to produce midi files from fractint output. It was a year long project, the results of which became the "Sounds of Chaos" CD which you can listen to via my audio fractal site. <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/mp3-files/Sounds_of_Chaos_CD> During that same approximate time period the fractint dev team - primarily Tim Wegner, Jonathan Osuch and Robin Bussel - were busy integrating the capability of using sound cards for output, in addition to the pc speaker. This opened up a huge number of sound variables to be played with. I find this output to be far more exciting and "organic" than midi instruments and have thus not tried to resurrect my midi conversion program. As Windows became less and less DOS-friendly my interest in pursuing audio fractals waned and until recently I have done nothing new since around 2003. DOSBox SVN-Daum has changed all that! I'm having fun again and plan to start regularly doing new audio fractals. I hope that there is some modicum of interest in fractint sound somewhere. At least I hope that some of you will take the time to do a bit of exploring with me as I post links and pars. A lot of my older files don't have the par file from which they came associated with them any more. However, all my new ones will be posted as mp3 files along with the fractint par file which was used for the basic sound. Many of them can be run with good results, especially if combined with some atmospherics, such as reverb, concert hall, etc. Cheers! Bill Jemison Audio Fractals <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/home>

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Ballet_Mandelois
by Albrecht Niekamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Ballet_Mandelois ; no comments ; https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgaEStiAyCTp4wJKv6A ; Albrecht --------------------------Start_Par------------------ 22222-09 { ; Ballet_Mandelois ; 5 times mandel ; SQR-(shape)_and_Exp-(inside3)_Warp ; Time 0.15.23.52 Reso 1280/1024 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=sqr/exp/exp/exp passes=t center-mag=+0.53666428337724590/-0.00383947049537588/2095.997 params=-0.05825983458967864/0.3785210730307932/22222.64595731338/11234.4\ 911030602/152048.0404808048/1536.1604894048/384.0003500001/256.100768300\ 1/512.1007683001/768.1008333001 float=y maxiter=3071 inside=maxiter periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 sound=off colors=2000FK<3>09C08A068<2>022000211<21>icNkeOmfP<3>unTwpVxqWzsX<25>CB7\ A96875<3>000400<23>o00q00s00<3>z00<25>C00A00800<3>000<23>fffgggiiijjjlll\ <3>sss<25>BBB999777<2>222000012<22>0_k0am0bo0cq<3>0jx0kz0jx<19>0HM }

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Defenseless
by Albrecht Niekamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Defenseless ; The other half of our world. The more powerful one ? It hurts... ; https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgaETMiSk6LKDPGO73g ; Albrecht ; --------------------Start Par--------------------------- 22222c28 { ; Defenseless ; 5_Times_Mandel ; Shape:sqr Inide3:exp warpeffect ; Time 0.20.21.21 Reso 1280/1024 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=sqr/exp/exp/exp passes=t center-mag=+0.53694363498655430/-0.00415333811319574/725982.6/1/147.4999\ 99998117232/4.34565931850539044e-010 params=-0.05825983458967864/0.3785210730307932/22222.64595731338/11234.4\ 911030602/152048.0404808048/1536.1604894048/384.0003500001/256.100768300\ 1/512.1007683001/768.1008333001 float=y maxiter=3071 inside=maxiter periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 sound=off colors=2000FK<3>09C08A068<2>022000211<21>icNkeOmfP<3>unTwpVxqWzsX<25>CB7\ A96875<3>000400<23>o00q00s00<3>z00<25>C00A00800<3>000<23>fffgggiiijjjlll\ <3>sss<25>BBB999777<2>222000012<22>0_k0am0bo0cq<3>0jx0kz0jx<19>0HM }

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3Dimensional Labyrinth
by Albrecht Niekamp 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

This just had to be ! ; A zoom into yesterday´s image ; https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgaERHSuvYLUR7ZTJ7w ; Albrecht --------------------------Start par------------------------- 21547-34 { ; 3D-labyrinth ; Zoom into 21547-33 ; Time 0.07.17.59 Reso 1280/1024 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_1 function=zero/ident/ident/ident passes=t center-mag=-0.49996223428041070/-0.13143487473103340/456591/1/-90/-1.233\ 73533611470521e-014 params=-0.05825983458967864/0.3785210730307932/21547.6459571202/14523.49\ 11030602/152048.0404808041/384.16048940221/384.00482000595/128.100768300\ 1/256.1007683001/384.1007683001 float=y maxiter=3071 inside=maxiter periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 sound=off colors=000<2>110110000KA4<7>gcOjgRmjT<3>zzc<9>UOFRKDOGA<3>A00<9>f0Ci0Dl0\ F<3>z0K<6>Z0EV0DR0C<3>A08004000<26>000<4>000<7>Q0UU0YX0a_0dc0hf0l<2>p0w<\ 4>_0dX0aU0Y<2>K0NH0JG0NE1R<3>7UX6`Z4h_2oa0wc<10>2WI2TG2RE<3>4G54D36F5<16\ >kkammcpoe<3>zwm<3>mhZjdVfaS<3>VMCRI8OE4KA0000<43>000<4>000330<12>110 }

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