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TC
3D Martin Attractor explorer
Jan 14th, 2009, 9:01pm  
Like a lot of people I've been playing with fractals to learn Processing. Ferns, carpets, sieves etc etc. Then I discovered the deceptively simple Martin attractor. It's a 2D function but I came up with a 3D form that may be a little repetitive but nonetheless quite beautiful.

There are a number of keystrokes (described on the page) to control automatic rotation, expansion/contraction etc. I  incorporated the  Arcball library to allow full mouse control.

A single variable allows the code to run in Application mode (fullscreen) and with screen-capture.

Let me know what you think.

Tim

http://timcor.googlepages.com/index.html



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samuel bravo
Re: First Sketch - another fractal explorer
Reply #1 - Jan 15th, 2009, 1:23am  
that was amazing.
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ilazarte
Re: First Sketch - another fractal explorer
Reply #2 - Jan 15th, 2009, 3:45am  
holy cow that's novel.  I don't think I've ever seen a 3d version of a fractal generator.  very awesome indeed.
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TC
Re: First Sketch - another fractal explorer
Reply #3 - Jan 15th, 2009, 7:35am  
Thanks... I'm glad you like it. I'm working on it still but this was a lot of fun and a good learning experience.

Tim
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tru2life
Re: 3D Martin Attractor explorer
Reply #4 - Apr 28th, 2009, 3:45am  
luv yer work...

tried running locally, and got error message.

The package "com.processinghacks" does not exist. you might be missing a library.


could you point me at where to get it...?

...william.o.yates...spamware.at.tru2life.net...tru2life.info...
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TC
Re: 3D Martin Attractor explorer
Reply #5 - Jun 14th, 2009, 6:15pm  
Jeez I'm sorry I missed your question. I gave up on getting more feedback and stopped checking.

Anyway the missing library is "arcball" as described in the sourcecode header. You should be able to find it here (remove spaces):

ht tp://proce ssing.org/ha cks/hacks:arcball

Again, thanks for the nice comments.
Tim
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jotham
Re: 3D Martin Attractor explorer
Reply #6 - Jul 4th, 2009, 8:59am  
wow, that's a beautiful attractor and demo!
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