rfb@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Rick Busdiecker) (06/30/85)
I think Michael Rivero's suggestion for a net.graphics.fractals is a really good idea. Fractals and relatives of fractals easily represent a large enough body of information to merit a seperate bboard.
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/03/85)
> I think Michael Rivero's suggestion for a net.graphics.fractals is a really > good idea. Fractals and relatives of fractals easily represent a large enough > body of information to merit a seperate bboard. But do they represent enough *network traffic* to need a separate group? If the discussion is still going strong in September, and the non-fractal inhabitants [:-) "sir, my dimensionality is precisely 3" :-)] of net.graphics are starting to grumble, then it will be time for a new newsgroup. If it's just an occasional exchange of messages, it's not worth the network-wide overhead of a new newsgroup. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune) (07/04/85)
> However, net.graphics is an ideal forum for trading tips and > tricks on Mountains and those swirly 3D things (which are two > completly different functions, incidentally). > Maybe it's time to establish net.graphics.fractals ? Hear, hear. I'm a new user of the net, but I've been mucking about with fractals - especially those "swirly things" - for a few months now, with the help of Benoit Mandelbrot's book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature." Just this evening I've managed to send bit-map images to a printronix printer on our system, so with 2112-by-xxxx resolution I hope to be able to see whether or not the pascal program I'm using makes any sense. (It's hard to tell when you're using 1-pixel-per-character decwriters!) (It's even harder when you try it with a ZX81 - although it costs less, and I've managed to print out 256*256 images with its $50 printer, the turnaround time is measured in days if the local power utility is nice, months otherwise.) Anyway, once I get some pretty pictures worth letting the rest of the world know about, I'll post a pascal listing. Camille Goudeseune 2054 Waycross Cres. Mississauga, Ont., Canada L5K 1H9
magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman) (07/04/85)
In article <220@cmu-cs-h.ARPA> rfb@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Rick Busdiecker) writes: >I think Michael Rivero's suggestion for a net.graphics.fractals is a really >good idea. Fractals and relatives of fractals easily represent a large enough >body of information to merit a seperate bboard. The current volume on net.graphics would seem to support heavy discussion on fractals without creating yet another news group so let's get on with it! -- ----------------------------------------- Ben Liberman {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!magik