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grant YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Attractors and Fractals Jan 12^th, 2009, 10:18pm Hi All, I recently coded up a Processing applet for playing around with fractals/attractors in real time: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/attractors/ Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks! -Grant

sw01 Full Member Offline Posts: 175	Re: Attractors and Fractals Reply #1 - Jan 12^th, 2009, 10:51pm Any feedback? How about awesome?

warpcat YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 39 CA	Re: Attractors and Fractals Reply #2 - Jan 12^th, 2009, 11:50pm Yeh, that is really sweet. I've been wanting to learn about them, so being able to interact is a great thing. Cheers!
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Jack Perkins Junior Member Offline Posts: 99	Re: Attractors and Fractals Reply #3 - Jan 13^th, 2009, 5:40am I have nothing to say more than this is awesome, and thanks!

kiza

Re: Attractors and Fractals
Reply #4 - Jan 13^th, 2009, 4:21pm

Real nice and usefull. Thanks a lot

I added this to mousebutton to save

String fileName = "fract";
int fileNumber = 0;
void mousePressed(){
if (mouseButton == CENTER) img.save(fileName + fileNumber++ + ".jpg");

It's really pretty but was wondering, is there a way to antialiase it? Some areas get edgy..

back to playing with it..

grant

Re: Attractors and Fractals
Reply #5 - Jan 13^th, 2009, 5:52pm

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

The simplest way to anti-alias is to render at higher resolution and scale down the final result. This requires more than the default 1 million iterations to get the same density (and the brightness will still decrease since you're averaging in blackness at the edges to make them less edgy -- and nearly everything is an edge).

So, for example, the two lines you'd change are near the top:

int N = 1024, u, v; //Resolution - up from 512
int nrSamples = 4000000; //Iterations - up from 1000000

Then just save the image and use your favorite image editor to scale it back down. You can render these things at infinitely high resolution, so go crazy :)

scntfc YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 16	Re: Attractors and Fractals Reply #6 - Jan 13^th, 2009, 5:57pm great stuff. and thanks so much for the detailed commenting; it helps us novices to see what's doing what.

ramin

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Reply #7 - Jan 17^th, 2009, 6:45am

very cool.
so quick. making freaky harmonic pictures in a moment. i like the little points that are building up like preview. i don't understand the code but maybe i haven read it long enough. i give up very quickly with other codes ;(. because the little points in the time i love the thing that there might be very little small chaotic processes which let emerge this stable atractor and think of little organic or physical stuff.

introspector Junior Member Offline Posts: 54	Re: Attractors and Fractals Reply #8 - Jan 18^th, 2009, 12:01pm nice sketch. thanks for sharing
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