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Published: 2007-03-09 04:12:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 3215; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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i put this in the fractal art category, though it's only tangentially related: the "nebula" density field is in fact a very complex fractal transformation, with only a few iterations.here is the program that produces it (quickly hacked together 32bit version, it's slow as hell): [link]
you may need to install this, and it may fail if you don't use an english version of windows (also untested on vista): [link]
normally i try to not "arbitrarily" (seems to me) rotate my original pictures after i've rendered them, but i've made an(other) exception. i guess i don't understand art
any comments on whether or not landscape is better?as for what it's doing, that's long and technical; if anyone cares you can just email, and probably if you do you already chat with me online
for example my friends ~greenhybrid and ~Darnal are both writing 2d ray tracers (i pimp again my mouldy old articles: [link] and [link] )
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yo, I was just looking at this again... seriously its so good. Its like, multiple density fluid/cloudy/ sedimenty and just.. its so amazing. yep. I don't mean to impose, but make more of this stuff, or tell me how to make it
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have to say this... dont forget to feed your pet!! haha nice image tho!
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this looks like a really amazing effect, I tried following the volume_scatter.zip link but it was broken :\
Looks excellent really, I haven't looked into anything 2D ray tracers before
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it's something i started doing on my own, and got a few friends doing, but haven't seen it anywhere else 
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hey man, what kind of software is this exactly, its just that the site is entirely gone and I'm not sure at all what kind of search terms I'd need to put into google to find at least a program which is simmilar. I was thinking, there must be a more well known software which works just with 2D ray tracing and fiddling about with 2D forms and generative drawing etc..
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heya nick 
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Ah alright, its a really interesting idea for a program, the effects are great..
I guess stuff like processing/pure data/open frameworks would be sufficient alternatives.
Thanks!
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..quadratikick my ass math hurts so bad..
Ceci est extrème, mon ami!
Reminds me of light bodies we see when our eyes are more receptive to electromagnetics, via tryptomenes and mageic mushrooms.
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Beautiful and subtle effects. The grain has a nice soft quality. Great work.
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appreciated
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dirty tricks, ie: post process in Adobe? hehe. hilarious.
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for me that's definitely dirty tricks, 99% of my gallery is done from scratch with my programs
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*tips hat in your direction, tucks tail between legs & runs!
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was such fun to make
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Big words: quadratic, intuitive. Are you sure it's that easy?
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motherfucker, your dante prose scares me!
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Ahahahahaha! (I've been missing your messages!) How has school been going?
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quite ok so far, shit's gonna hit the fan end of this month tho, in a big way; i've been owning my computer graphics course, that's kinda fun (and it's unusual for me to do well in a uni context 
btw, you still owe me some pictures of the local flora (some fauna is welcome too)...
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LMAO - there's one more space I want to fill on the collage I'm making you. There are 11 shots of all types of different shit so far for you to see.
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i salivate with giddy anticipation!
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Hahaha! Wait until you see the new shit!
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nice dude. thiought the other one was better though hehe. nice colours
mat
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colours == programmer colours, the tech is the neat thing. oh well
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lol
mat
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fankye, the "design" is a bit accidental i have to admit, but mathematics is often kind 
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Welcome, accidental or not, still great!
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on the one hand thanks, on the other hand they were picked in < 0.00002 nanoseconds
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So I assume its a random gradient then...
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the lights emit (predominantly) red, green and blue light as defined in the .scn file; you can change their colour, size and position if you like but "camera" control is fixed :/
so there's no pre-canned gradients going on, that's neato light transport, of the statistically unbiased (as accurate as it gets) variety. this contrasts strongly with biased methods like photon mapping, which only assuredly converges to the correct solution in the limit, after an infinite number of phtons have been shot+stored: [link]
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you're trying to make me commit mass murder?
that's outrageously advanced stuff right there, more or less equivalent to this: [link]
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You got me there. I'm getting a lethal headache just from looking at what you wrote in your last message.
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you gave the author of indigo ([link] ) a good laugh with that comment, btw
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You know what it's like on the internet. There's so much information out there that you get to the point where you just don't want anymore details...
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on the contrary, i've spent pretty much all my time since age 16 or so soaking it all up
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i like the blue bits most, but the red and green are also special. it's quite a varied little piece
glad you like it dude!
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Way better than a grasshopper, tis awesome do0d. Hope you got the note bout the texts
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aye got them from IB, and anyway i shall soon(ish) be living in your fine country
glad you're farting about on the net again, lemme check for some of those famous journals...
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i beg your pardon?!
*ahem*i got your message from IB, and the text messages; i also replied, probably you didn't get those.
enough about phones tho, are you well?! got your worrying message and not much else, send me a note and tell what happened d00d!
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lolol...not THAT some
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