michaelerule
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Michael Rule (M, 21)
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    Perceptron ( early snapshots )

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    aaron kinney     Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link
    some kind of chaos theory thing, perhaps? these patterns remind me of those found within the Jurassic Park novel.
    michaelerule     Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link
    These are screen-shots from a real-time interactive fractal toy that I've been programming. I intend to make a user-friendly release within a month, but I don't have too much to say about it yet.
    folkert     Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link
    Sounds (and looks) exciting, keep us in the loop.
    Render     Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
    Let me tell you, I was Mike's roommate when he started making this last year, you should be excited about this. It is, Magnifiqu'e, Un-belala...

    It is very impressive what Mike has managed to do, in my opinion.
    bpwnes     Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
    Fantastic!

    What are you using to program it?
    lapisdecor     Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
    those isolated dots with circles remind me of wii-mote uses for it :D
    it would be nice to have a 3 dimensional vision of a fractal as a space base to design wii levels for games, or just to explore the fractal worlds

    or, imagine you could draw this image with several lasers on a building, but with 3D

    or imagine the impact such a use could have on architecture as a designing experience on extending a building, on events, a party or so. You would have a new(?) concept of virtual building, where half was a real building and the rest was just a projection

    and of course, a projection you could change and interact with :D
    michaelerule     Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
    I think the algorithms could easily support a depth vector and thus be amenable to some sort of 3D fractal landscape viewer. Perhaps I'll try a simple red/blue color glasses 3D mode, and some day we might set up a full color 3D interactive installation ?

    We've talked about getting it to work with the Wii for some time. I personally do not have the expertise to do this, but a good friend Keegan has a Wii remote partially working on a similar program ( I'll try to get him on spacecollective ) . I am working in Java ... if only there were a hack for getting a Wii remote into Java.

    A laser projected fractal would be awesome. I cannot imagine how this might be accomplished. In general fractal features are nowhere differentiable. Perhaps the smooth curves of some strange attractors would work best ? Alternatively, perhaps a large bank of pulsed lasers could render a point distribution of a FLAM3 / ElectricSheep like fractal ?

    We have played with projectors using an early prototype, indeed render's current user images consist of this program projected over his body.
     
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