Fractals as a better way to explain synchronicity?

I appreciated seeing Brian's fractal artwork, it is impressive.

I've recently been revisiting that familiar old ground of the Mandelbrot set. Inspired by a replacement of ageing computer hardware, I revived some decades-old computer code and tried it again, with some tweaks and modifications. Modern processor hardware is highly-optimised for certain built-in types of arithmetic, and for the time being I've confined myself to the limited precision available in order to utilise the gains in performance. I'll add that though cost is always a limiting factor, one of the main aims of my hardware upgrade was reduced noise. That means something which does not generate huge amounts of heat and require noisy cooling fans. Though I should not be surprised, a workable compromise between low noise and reasonable performance is possible nowadays in a way which was not available years ago.

My images are strictly 2-D, but it is the generation of video sequences which has been my main activity recently. Some of the images make me think of organic life, whether leafy plants or creatures of the ocean. A single image for now:

Nice image Typoz.  Is it your own code that produced the fractal?  I love that deep dip in the Mandelbrot where the spirals are and I love creating Julia sets from that area.  I use TieraZon which has it's own unique formula editor although I know nothing about fractal mathematics, I just tentatively play with the Mandelbrot formula to see what happens.

Nice image Typoz.  Is it your own code that produced the fractal?  I love that deep dip in the Mandelbrot where the spirals are and I love creating Julia sets from that area.  I use TieraZon which has it's own unique formula editor although I know nothing about fractal mathematics, I just tentatively play with the Mandelbrot formula to see what happens.

Thanks.

Pretty much all my own code. It has a long history, many years ago I found a listing in a magazine for the Atari ST, and the Mandelbrot formula came from there. Eventually I wrote it in C++ on a pc, periodically I revisit the code. Some of my inspiration comes from an old freeware program on Windows 3.0 which had the Julia set and several other formulas. One of the features in that old program was colour rotation, where the same image is redrawn with a slightly shifted palette. I just today got around to beginning on that feature.

I've not used TieraZon, I'm aware that there are some very interesting images being produced by other people and mine are quite limited in scope by comparison. I'd certainly like to try some 3-D work.

Though I should not be surprised, a workable compromise between low noise and reasonable performance is possible nowadays in a way which was not available years ago.

Well of course, the fans normally only ramp up when the CPU chip is getting hot - so you can have the power available when you want it and a quiet machine the rest of the time. If it always seems noisy, one possibility is that you have something running that is consuming a lot of computer power - probably something you don't want!

This will tell you what is running and how much CPU it is consuming:

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/362-p...lorer.html

David

Thanks David. Though what you refer to here is already standard practice. What I was specifically trying to point to is that mobile phones and tablets can operate with considerable processing power and no cooling fans whatsoever. Low-power CPU designs have found their way into laptops, but the physical constraints there mean the fans may be small and run noisily at high speed. Put that same CPU technology into a compact modern desktop design - say about 6 inches square, and a reasonably large fan running slowly and better heatsinking means even when running at full capacity the machine is still unobtrusively quiet, and during ordinary use is effectively silent. At a higher cost, an even larger heatsink integrated into the case itself means no fans at all. Complete silence. I didn't go that far.

Thanks David. Though what you refer to here is already standard practice.

Sure, but to be fair, I have no idea how technical people are here, because this is very much side issue.

My images are strictly 2-D, but it is the generation of video sequences which has been my main activity recently. Some of the images make me think of organic life, whether leafy plants or creatures of the ocean. A single image for now

I expect that video sequences where a parameter is varied over time would be very impressive - why not post a few!

David