Re: Fractal art site....

From: Sean Dean (seandean_at_seandean.com)
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 20:10:25 GMT

I saw this site some months ago, and bookmarked it.

I found the "art deco" styles in the fractals to be very refreshing, and I
know of the obstacles involved with the production and large-scale printing
of any digital media. To do so with fractals, and get an actual return on
investment must be a technical coupe, and worthy of discussion.....

With the software claim - I assumed that meant some kind of proprietary
printer driver, and plotting method......
It raised a bit a skepticism on my end as well.

I was recently looking into the cost of firing individual wall tiles - the
idea being to produce individually shaped and colored tiles that matched a
pattern produced with fractal software. Assuming the artist did the "grunt
work" and correctly shaped the tiles and earmarked each tile for the correct
color before firing - a fractal-based mural with fired tiles would cost less
than half of the material cost of PRINTING a wall mural. - That assessment
includes the fact that my cost comparison comes from a quote from my own
brother, who owns a film company for printing and graphic-arts.

{Silly little technical issues make a difference -

I troubleshoot and program for a several (too many) companies with a number
of technical disciplines. A land surveying company, and an engineering
company I work with shared a common problem with a high-end "plotter" -
essentially a printer designed to produce technical drawings- that could not
maintain the correct color ratio from the beginning to the end of a complete
printing cycle. At first, I thought that the problem came from the inkjet
cartridges, and the amount of color in output drawings, but when both
clients had identical problems in the laser version of the prints, we
eventually narrowed it down to the driver file that produced the original
plot file, and the way that it stored the incoming data stream. Because the
output had to be stored in memory - the limited memory allocation for the
printer-driver was forcing a programatic interpretation of portions of the
data based on a compressed version of the output. As the bits "floated" in
the memory space for color - it truncated the information - line by line,
producing a noticeable difference by the end of the file. An updated driver
from the manufacturer, and 2 regedits for Autocad later, the problem was
solved.}

.......All of that to say, "Yeah, I am interested in that off-market
software as well". I am about to jump into this fractal-art thing for a
living, and any new tools would be appreciated.

: )

sd

http://www.seandean.com

"Paul N. Lee" <NOSPAM@Worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:40C2004D.7477@Worldnet.att.net...
> Dave Reed <dave@finalprint.com> posted thru newssvr29.news.prodigy.com
> [64.171.84.134]:
> >
> > http://www.artbycomputer.com
> >
>
> On your site you made a statement that I would appreciate you
> clarifying, which is as follows:
>
> "The generation program I use is unavailable today.
> It seems the author pulled it from distribution and
> I can't find it anywhere. It generates colors
> unobtainable by any present inkjet technology....."
>
> Please give the name of this program that you used to generate your
> fractal graphics.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> P.N.L. [email address on web pages]
> -------------------------------------------------
> http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html
> http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
>