Fractals

[Jenx]

I thought these were best put on thier own thread...

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i....

Amazing looking but how are they made?

M.

[GetCarter]

and the answer is............ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

ETA - I'm really crap at it but have played with a fractal 'terraforming' prog which produced this:

Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 20th February 10:43

[Simpo Two]

GetCarter said:

have played with a fractal 'terraforming' prog which produced this:

About 15 years ago a computery friend of mine was playing with a programme called Vista which created landscapes at random just like yours. IIRC you dialled in the percentage of mountains, trees etc. But it was running on a 486 so took a long time to render!

[miniman]

I remember an old DOS program called Fractint which user to generate them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractint

Not sure if there's a "modern" version though.

[GetCarter]

The one above was made with a windows compatible prog called TERRAGEN (Just google it) It's a free download and pay to get better res etc (IIRC). My efforts are ok, but some of the stuff the geeks put out is astonishing.

[GetCarter]

Jenx

Mrs Get wanted me to send you this link (you've probably seen em) but hey...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturalhistoryman