{"id":1279,"date":"2006-11-27T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2006-11-27T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:33:13","slug":"fractals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Fractals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when fractals were new and exotic, I spent a lot of time creating fractal images. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smalleranimals.com\/thumbfrax\/thumbs\/_index.htm\">a gallery of images<\/a> that I use as a demonstration for our ThumbNailer application.<\/p>\n<p>Here's one of my favorites:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/fractal_fish.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I wrote my own app to create them, of course. And spent weeks optimizing the inner loops to run as fast as possible (integer-based math, in assembly. duh). I even went so far as to write my own window-based user interface for the app, so it would be easy for me to use. Note that I didn't write \"Windows-based\" - No, I actually created my own windowing interface, in a hi-res DOS graphics mode and drew all the stuff myself. This was back in the day before Windows 3.1, and I was trying to copy X-Windows and Solaris, not Windows. It was event-driven, had overlapping windows, sliders, buttons, text boxes and <i>screen savers<\/i>! Quite slick. I also used the windowing system for a primitive coin cataloging application (during a brief interest in coin collecting).<\/p>\n<p>I can still run the fractal app, but because I can't recompile it (I can't find the VESA graphics libs it needs), I can't change the type of fractals it makes. And I just don't have the energy to rewrite it for Windows. So, it's stuck with basic Mandelbrot calcs forever. So sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when fractals were new and exotic, I spent a lot of time creating fractal images. Here is a gallery of images that I use as a demonstration for our ThumbNailer application. Here's one of my favorites: I wrote my own app to create them, of course. And spent weeks optimizing the inner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}