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bananaboy 11 hours ago [-]
Always love to see new stuff on Paul Bourke's web site!
goodwillhunting 11 hours ago [-]
Probably the first non AI-generated graphic I've seen in a year! :)
yuye 10 hours ago [-]
>AI
Assorted Imaginaries?
jdw64 8 hours ago [-]
Do they still make screensavers that collect these kinds of things these days? When I was a kid, I used to love just staring blankly at computer screensavers.
That is some hubris for Paul to claim to have “created” this fractal in December 2020. Yes he coded up and rendered some nice images from this particular function. But this class of rational maps in complex dynamics has been studied by actual mathematicians for decades and there are many extremely similar visualizations. It’s a nice little exercise but there’s very minimal real original contribution that deserves attribution here.
You could render this in Fractint in DOS just by plugging that function in, I explored many similar cubic fractals with Fractint back in the mid-90s. And would have earlier if my parents could have afforded a 386 before then. It was released in 1988.
Sharlin 2 hours ago [-]
I can't even fathom how you'd end up with such crazily uncharitable interpretation to think that "Created by Paul Bourke" refers to the fractal itself, rather than those specific images of the fractal.
I reckon Paul only claims to have created the webpage titled 'Triple Dragon Fractal'.
Zecc 4 hours ago [-]
I take it he claims to have created these particular pictures of the fractal, which is likely true. And yes, the webpage containing them as well.
close04 4 hours ago [-]
The pages [1] have a mix of "Images/Graphics by", "Compiled/Written/Created/Contributed By", and "(Fractal) Attributed to" going back to 1990. So I think that attribution refers to the content and not just the page itself.
They weren’t “my” cubic fractals in the mid-90s any more than Paul “created” a fractal out of z^3/(z^3+1) + c in 2020. Pretty pictures on his blog are fine, giving it a name and attributing himself as its “creator” when this was well-explored decades earlier with better renderings is the hubris.
mlyle 5 hours ago [-]
Nor does he say he was the first to create them. The bro has posted hundreds or more pictures functions, many of which are well known... But well-colored and cropped into interesting locales, and described well. Including a good article that he wrote in a 1990 magazine.
Assorted Imaginaries?
You could render this in Fractint in DOS just by plugging that function in, I explored many similar cubic fractals with Fractint back in the mid-90s. And would have earlier if my parents could have afforded a 386 before then. It was released in 1988.
Each and every of the fractal pages here has a similar attribution: https://paulbourke.net/fractals/
[1] https://paulbourke.net/fractals/
https://paulbourke.net/fractals/