A Different Corner: Latest fractal: Music of three

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

A complete change from my recent more 'organic' work, this time a graphical symphony.

Apophysis and GIMP.

x said...: i am amazed! this is so beautiful, flowing and free.; 5:30 pm
UltraGnosis said...: Thank you so much! Ever wanted to dive into the world of fractal art? Warning, may become an obsession!; 6:10 pm
x said...: please enlighten me! and if it is addictive, i am certainly going to like it; 9:28 pm
Unknown said...: HQI.EXE has a habit of munching up a lot of RAM !

Yesterday I tried to render something and that HQI ate up more than 800MB of the RAM of my PC, and was about to gobble even more before I abort the rendering.

Is there an alternative to HQI.exe ?; 5:27 am
UltraGnosis said...: Definitely! Use flam3, available:

http://flam3.com/index.cgi?&menu=download

Note that this will auto-detect (and use) all CPUs for multi-core machines. To prevent this, you'll need to add the line:

set nthreads=1

to the render.bat file to manually force single-core usage. If you're worried about memory usage, you can render in strips, but to render n strips takes n x the time, so better to allow full memory access. For reference, use:

set nstrips=??

Using Task Manager to reduce the process priority to low helps to free up resources.; 11:12 am