> Does anyone on the list know what became of Paul Carlson?
Further research on Paul Carlson and his "Mind-Boggling Fractals" website...
However, you can skip my research and go directly to the last
www.archive.org archive of Paul's actual web site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041119093332/http://www.mbfractals.com/
or
http://tinyurl.com/Mind-Boggling-Fractals-archiv
Note that the archived web site offers images & software for sale.
They are no longer for sale. Paul N. Lee's (PNL) links include access
to Paul Carlson's (now free) software:
http://www.Nahee.com/Software/MBF/
http://departments.fmarion.edu/mathematics/museum/author.html
I followed John's link (from a previous posting to [Fractint]) -
"Carlson's stuff can be still viewed at:
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/carlson/
John W."
A link on that page to: "the Paul Carlson Fractal Museum":
http://acsweb.fmarion.edu/math/museum/
gave a "page cannot be found"
(This is the site that is apparently now at the:
"departments.fmarion.edu" site in Paul N. Lee's link above.)
However, looking for the "acsweb.fmarion.edu" page at:
http://www.archive.org/index.php
using their "Wayback Machine" revealed that they had a copy of
the page archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080731092344/http://acsweb.fmarion.edu/math/museum/
or
http://tinyurl.com/392bq38
The archived page says:
The Paul Carlson Fractal Museum
Presented on the Web by Matthew Sanderson
...
Paul Carlson, 3343 Santa Fe Court, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526
They also had a page called "About Paul Carlson" whose contents I pasted below:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080609025237/acsweb.fmarion.edu/math/museum/author.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/about-Paul-Carlson
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Paul W. Carlson
Paul Carlson has been programming computers since 1979, and has been professionally employed in them since 1984. He wrote his first
fractal-generating program in 1985, and has written about a dozen of them since. Of these, only the program called "Mind-Boggling
Fractals" was for a general audience, the others being private code for private use.
In the year 1995, Mr. Carlson discovered a general method of rendering fractals that produce images with sharply defined elements and
having a rounded, three-dimensional appearance. He began posting some of these images that year to the newsgroup alt . binaries .
pictures . fractals, and was soon offered free webspace for fractal galleries at universities in France, the United States, and
Canada. This public exposure led to several hundred (perhaps over a thousand) email messages about his images. Requests came as well
that they be published in books. All such requests were granted, and so his fractals now appear in seven books in as many different
languages.
At the request of others, Mr. Carlson wrote two articles for Computers & Graphics, one printed in 1996 and the other in 1999. These
articles may be accessed through the museum's Links page.
In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Mr. Carlson maintained his own website wherefrom he displayed much of his work and sold his program
Mind Boggling Fractals. This is the program with which he generated the images currently on display at this museum. Unable to
maintain his site, he let it go dark in 1994. At that time, Clint Sprott, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, maintained an archive of much of Mr. Carlson's work.
This museum opened in the year 2006, using as source material the archive of Clint Sprott and the remnants of Mr. Carlson's original
site that were somewhat miraculously saved from destruction by www.archive.org.
Mr. Carlson currently lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado.
All images © Paul Carlson 1995-2004
Design by Matthew Sanderson
Page updated on: 04/24/2006.
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The above archived web site had a link to various archived snapshots
over time of Paul's Mind-Boggling Fractals website.
The last www.archive.org archive of Paul Carlson's actual *original*
Mind-Boggling Fractals web site is here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041119093332/http://www.mbfractals.com/
or
http://tinyurl.com/Mind-Boggling-Fractals-archiv
Later archives show:
"The Mind-Boggling Fractals website no longer exists."
or a blank page.
Note that the archived web site offers images and software for sale.
They are no longer for sale. Paul N. Lee's links (at the top
of this email) include access to Paul Carlson's software.
PNL says, "...he has now offered it to the public for FREE use."
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My experience is that the web archive at the "Wayback Machine"
located at: www.archive.org can be expected to have occasional
missing images on the pages it archives.
- Hal Lane hallane@earthlink.net
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