Ran into this the other day XaoS is a very impressive dynamic Fractal zoomer. XaoS also has a very cool tutorial/help system that explains what fractals are and how to use the program. Very easy to navigate and some of the included example are truly breathtaking. The program is very easy to use (Right click Zoom out, Left click Zoom in, Middle button drag) and has a ton of options and effects.
I used to play with Fractint way back and got close to doing my masters thesis on fractals. But have not kept up with it. I’m kind of sad to realize that the last version of Fractint was released on 9/9/99 much too long ago.
Here is a video of the deep zoom of the Mandelbrot set I’m not sure what program they used (XaoS , Fractint or something else)
Written by Carlos on May 7th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Science and Just for Fun.
I just ran into Astro Shorts a video hosting site (a Youtube for astronomy geeks). Has a lot of interesting videos (from NASA and other space).
Found this video called Powers of Ten. Starting at normal scale and then it will zoom out 10 times each 10 seconds, and then it zooms in to the sub atomic level.
Which reminded me of Nikon UniverScale , Hopefully it helps in puting things in their proper perspectives.
Written by Carlos on May 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Science and Just for Fun.
We just upgraded some of our projects to Visual Studio 2005, and I have to say it is really like being able to write code in VB.Net that looks like:
if aObject IsNot Nothing then
End if
instead of
if not (aObject Is Nothing) then
End if
something always felt weird about the double negative in is not nothing. So it is an improvement (even if Microsoft wants to patent it.)
Now if somebody would just come up with an is Something I’m sold
if (aObject Is Something) then
End if
Written by Carlos on April 30th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Software Development.
Very inspiring talk by Sir Ken Robinson where he talks about the role of education and creativity.
Only 20 minutes long.
Written by Carlos on April 27th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Just for Fun and Personal Growth.
Global Rich list can help you put things in proper perspective.
If your annual income is $50,000.00 you are in the top 0.98% richest person in the world with only 59,029,289 people richer than you, and if we assume the World population to be 6,000,000,000 (6 Billion) that means that there are 5,940,970,711 persons poorer than you.
Makes you think
Written by Carlos on April 27th, 2007 with 1 comment.
Read more articles on Personal Growth and Personal Finance.
