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i was pretty happy when i rendered this on my dualcore in 2006
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I didn't get my first dualcore till 2007...
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i got my current i7 quadcore in 2008, this year i'll get the 8 core / 16 thread 64gb memory box and go apeshit with the 3d fractals.
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I really wanna get an 8 core system. I was very disapointed when I found out Intel Ivy Bridge is only going to be 4 core, with the rest of the die wasted on a crappy gpu. I think servers are the only real option for 8 core, what setup are you getting? How much you paying?
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socket 2011, paying lots, as it was with socket 1366 in 2008. it's really the motherboard and 8gb dimms that are expensive.
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Well I hope you realise how jealous I am. 
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when you're coding on 3d renderers all day, you can justify it too
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thanks, this old work from 2006 is probably one of my best
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I am getting this book, it sounds excellent. And getting the demo for later too! And this is a great fractal.
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awesome, couldn't have hoped for a better response 
while you're reading awesome sci fi, i cannot recommend "accelerando" by charles stross enough!
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Oh snap, is it only available digitally? I'm investigating this whole "singularity" thing now..
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i bought the book for my stepdad for christmas 
the singularity is among the most compelling possibilities for a non-dystopian (i.e. utopian) future of humanity, in which we all transcend this squishy substrate to become a combined post-human entity, that hopefully gets to see the end of the universe through acting in unison towards a common destiny (at fucking last! certainly the present political system won't get us there...)
btw, i'm moving to newcastle, england next year. i still hold ambitions of doing some media work together someday, the realistic chance of which seems to be improving
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Ooh yes I found it on amazon!
Yeah, it sure is a nicer idea than political rape.
I cant wait for a fire upon the deep to pop through the post box, its way late already.
Cool, what are you going to be doing in Newcastle? By next year do you mean this year? Happy new year btw!
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the company i work for, glare technologies, is moving to newcastle, and yup this year, around feb
hope you have a good 2011 too mate!
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the demos is amazing, I thought it made by Conspiracy.
this one looks like a bunch of burning plastic...
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hmm, i don't really like conspiracy's demos that much... they are very good, but in the demoscene there are better guys for sure
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Farbrausch, Loonies, RGBA and TBC are my favorite groups. Loonies's style is different than others though. I actually met one of their group's member in BP 2007, yeah, he's the amazing coder.
conspiracy's good in design and stuff, music. But you must see the "Chaos Theory", it's their best demos.
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From A Fire Upon the Deep. Is it supposed to be a picture of the Countermeasure?
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oh! i suppose it could be, blocking out the light from a star beneath... didn't think of it that way when creating this tho
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wohoa!
Amazingly hot coolness combined with crazy cool hotness!
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Brilliant! 
Me--->
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btw, all the devs in my gallery were made with (only) my programs.
you're one of the people i would've liked to beta test my new flame rendering app, but development on that has stalled with this new 3d renderer 
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Im always up for testing programs, especially interested in 3d
Me--->
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it's rendered with my old 3d fractal rendering app, from june/july 2006 (when i first started collaborating with *Aexion ). you can check a render made with my new one here: [link] (my next deviation is gonna rock it, which is why that one is in scraps 
anyways thx for the fav mate!
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Overall I think it's a bit too bleached to have maximum impact, and there are some ugly bits in the "fire", but overall... OMINOUS!
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so much detail!
this peice is amazing...i love the viewing angle too, gives it a nice twist.
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much appreciated, it's such a pleasure when real artists like my work
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fank j00, please see also the sequel! (which is a lot better in my opinion
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You`re welcome
Might be good idea to paste a link to next one in description?
However I do like this a lot
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awesome...
when i saw fullsize view i am dumb.
can you tell me how you done this?
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sorry, the variations in my scraps are for the other image in the series (a deepness in the sky). it's also made with the same program though, and the two scenes are related.
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it's made with a 3d fractal renderer i wrote; there are other variations in my scraps: [link]
glad you like it and thanks for the fav!
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thanks
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I don't know what that is, but it looks really cool.
Is that a modelling job, or a fractal?
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thanks, it's a (3d) fractal. hope to code my next generation 3d fractal renderer (a ray tracer) before too long, but there's a ton of other stuff to do now that my uni year is over...
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heh, just that same old 3d fractal renderer i was using before (cf. [link] )
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