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Date registered: July 27, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Mac Pro Setup — July 10, 2014
  2. Progress Report on Fractal Domains X for April 2013 — April 18, 2013
  3. Weave — April 18, 2013
  4. And Now For Something Completely Different… — February 10, 2013
  5. Things are shaping up for Fractal Domains X — January 21, 2013

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Jul 10 2014

Mac Pro Setup

Earlier this year I replaced my old computer, a 2006 Mac Pro, with the new Mac Pro model. That was probably the longest I ever went before replacing a computer.

I ordered it on the first day the new model became available: December 19, 2013. However, since I ordered late in the day. I didn’t …

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Apr 18 2013

Progress Report on Fractal Domains X for April 2013

Well, the ability to read the old legacy files was added over the course of the last few months and seems to be working pretty well. A lot of the parameter editing is in there, and now I have the ability to save files and export images. As an example you can see the latest …

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Apr 18 2013

Weave

This is a significant entry in the gallery; it is the first published image produced by Fractal Domains X!

Feb 10 2013

And Now For Something Completely Different…

Update: Our project was funded! Thanks to all those who participated.

I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about a subject that is somewhat off topic for the Fractal Domains site. (However, I will have a comment that will bring it back to relevancy at the end of this post!)

Last year my wife …

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Jan 21 2013

Things are shaping up for Fractal Domains X

It’s been over a year since my last post. It’s been a big year in my life. On the plus side for Fractal Domains development, I retired from my day job at the end of 2011. On the minus side (for Fractal Domains development), my wife quickly came up with a project that required some …

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Sep 12 2011

Back to the Future!

I’d like to discuss the current state of Fractal Domains development.

[I will try to keep this non-technical, but I will have occasion to mention the two ways Apple provides to write software for OS X. Carbon is the name of the interface a programmer would use that is compatible with the old (pre-OS X) …

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Aug 20 2011

Gallery Move Complete

I have finished porting all images from the old web site format to the new one.

Aug 20 2011

AnnMaria’s Pick

Portion of a Julia set using the “stalks” orbit trap option.

“AnnMaria’s Pick” parameter file

Aug 20 2011

Uplifted

Portion of the Mandelbrot set using the “stalks” orbit trap option.

“Uplifted” parameter file

Aug 20 2011

Ganglion

Rational Julia set with “stalk” orbit trap. This Julia set was generated from the rational function

f(z) = z^4/(z^3 + 1) + c, c = -0.5196152 + 0.9165436 i

This fractal is based on the same formula as the previous Fractal of the Week “Serrated,” except with a different value used …

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