Comments on: Exploring Fractals http://instantsolve.net/blog/2009/02/exploring-fractals/ The Life and Work of Thomas Milburn Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: milburn http://instantsolve.net/blog/2009/02/exploring-fractals/comment-page-1/#comment-2319 milburn Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:26:46 +0000 http://instantsolve.net/blog/?p=105#comment-2319 Hi Dan, Thanks for your comment! Yeh I came across the idea of using a false colour spectrum from a wikipedia article. I'm not sure what the appearance of using sine waves would look like but I know that the processing time would increase quite significantly (at least in the way I have implemented it). Performance could certainly be improved if the colours were precomputed and placed in a lookup table. Really I should also plot the number of iterations on a logarithmic scale so that there is a better colour gradient. Hi Dan,
Thanks for your comment! Yeh I came across the idea of using a false colour spectrum from a wikipedia article. I’m not sure what the appearance of using sine waves would look like but I know that the processing time would increase quite significantly (at least in the way I have implemented it). Performance could certainly be improved if the colours were precomputed and placed in a lookup table. Really I should also plot the number of iterations on a logarithmic scale so that there is a better colour gradient.

]]> By: dan http://instantsolve.net/blog/2009/02/exploring-fractals/comment-page-1/#comment-2312 dan Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:45:10 +0000 http://instantsolve.net/blog/?p=105#comment-2312 Tom - I got to your site from your Drop-Caps plug-in, I'll try it for a while, it offers a nice touch. While here, I noticed the Fractals! I may still have the Scientific American article I read way back when, I remember writing a Pascal program to display them on the screen. That was with an early IBM PC (actually a Heathkit, which I built). I like your three color rendering scheme, a simple three phase construction, elegant. I wonder what shifting them to sine waves instead of the straight ramps would do to the 1. processing time & 2. the rendition of the image. Thanks, for sharing! Dan Tom – I got to your site from your Drop-Caps plug-in, I’ll try it for a while, it offers a nice touch. While here, I noticed the Fractals! I may still have the Scientific American article I read way back when, I remember writing a Pascal program to display them on the screen. That was with an early IBM PC (actually a Heathkit, which I built). I like your three color rendering scheme, a simple three phase construction, elegant. I wonder what shifting them to sine waves instead of the straight ramps would do to the 1. processing time & 2. the rendition of the image.

Thanks, for sharing!
Dan

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