I spent many hours playing with fractint when I was a much younger mouse. I didn't really know anything about the various mathematics and formulas behind fractals, but it was so easy to just do random stuff and see what happened.
@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman
3 ай бұрын
I spent hours with this back in the 90s. Good memories!
@Nezuji
3 ай бұрын
Ah, all those video cards! Before VBE became common enough to safely rely on, I remember being a budding amateur MS-DOS graphics programmer in the early days of the public Internet, where people had banded together to figure out a way to autodetect a user's video card. It involved a branching series of video interrupt calls that would produce repeatable (if sometimes weird) responses from various cards without risking destabilizing any cards that hadn't yet been ruled out at that point in the tree. The final result took a fraction of a second and looked similar to a regular screen resolution change to the end user, but it was very Interesting from a programming perspective. Best practice was still to offer the user a manual override, but it was possible to autodetect the majority of post-VGA, non-VBE cards quite reliably. Or at least, more reliably than the average user knowing the exact model of their video card.
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
Pre-VESA SVGA was just utter chaos. :P
@thenoblerot
3 ай бұрын
The Algorithm sent me here. Subscribed. Yes, you called it... my brain anticipated the Fractint bleep-bloop as soon I saw the opening rendering start! iirc, fractint could render left/right eye views suitable for red/blue 3d glasses? I definitely used to use it for creating image pairs for the magic eye effect.
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
Yep! It has support for that among other 3D effects like height-mapping, but I didn't showcase those features in the video because I remember them being kinda hard to really make good use of and didn't feel I could show them properly; Modern fractal tools are generally way better at doing them in 3D. :B
@SomeOrangeCat
3 ай бұрын
Oh. This takes me back!
@alexanderfreeman
3 ай бұрын
Fascinating video! I never knew about FracInt. The connection the bifurcation fractal has to the Mandelbrot fractal shown at the beginning is that if you put the latter in 3 dimension and then rotate it along the X-axis, you will get the bifurcation fractal! This actually reminds me that I need to get back to writing my political book, Fractal Politics: How Politics is Shaped by the Laws of Thermodynamics. The ubiquity of fractals is incredible!
@bradboggess9347
3 ай бұрын
This was very cool DOS freeware. I remember the Windows version coming out with a note that went something like "pretty much the same as the DOS version without thousands of weird video modes." 😀
@dada_dittrich
3 ай бұрын
remember it, when we watched high or drunk
@lilwyvern4
3 ай бұрын
Thinking about fractals for too long sort of freaks me out. These simple mathematical formulae can recreate shapes found in nature that presumably took billions of years to generate on their own. How far does that sort of patterning go? Is the whole of reality just one big math project that could be accurately mapped if we just knew the right sequence of numbers?
@XanthinZarda
3 ай бұрын
Nice. As someone who made fractals for this month, Fractinct is juuuuuust complicated enough for me that I'd rather use Xaos or Gnofract4D. I respect it though, and do enjoy it's formula library. I also respect that there is still developed. Playing with incolor and outcolor is also a good way to make a fractal golden.
@arboris
3 ай бұрын
As a old school DOS user, I don't think I have encountered this. This is a really cool program.
@Heike--
3 ай бұрын
It was on every BBS and ftp site out there! How did anyone miss it? It was as ubiquitous as Tradewars.
@TheMoogleMaster
3 ай бұрын
I remember a number of these fractal/kaleidoscope programs back in the DOS days.
@dsallen7914
3 ай бұрын
Oddly enough despite having a DOS PC in the 90s I never had a copy of this. But I do seem to remember seeing it or something very similar on demo PCs in computer stores back in the day.
@solsticeprojekt1937
3 ай бұрын
OMFG FRACTINT!!!!!!!
@dinitroacetylen
3 ай бұрын
9:45 -- in principle, any work of art is just a bunch of pigment particles with specific spatial coordinates and reflectivity spectral functions.
@EdmondDantes224
3 ай бұрын
My non-computer-literate brain keeps hearing the term "floating point math" and thinking its like, math equations that fly on a cloud like a DBZ character or something. Or else like, a number that kinda flits around like a leaf on the wind.
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
I mean, it literally refers to the fact that the decimal point "floats" and isn't in a specific spot relative to the digits of the number. :B
@SimonJ57
3 ай бұрын
What was the music playing in the background?
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
That was some of my own music I've created. There's plenty more over on my website to listen to if you're curious: www.pixelships.com/misc/music.html
@SimonJ57
3 ай бұрын
@@Pixelmusement I think it sounds great, I'm going to listen to the lot. Very nice that they're also made in ImpulseTracker. It seems there are some people sill using it up to today. One of the most recent ones I have is from that, somewhat recent, Touhou Bad Apple craze. Where the notes scroll by just quick enough that each complete field is a different frame of animation.
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
@@SimonJ57 I actually stopped using Impulse Tracker in 2020 and have since been learning to use modern music software. I've made lots of strides but because everything I've made in recent years has been intended for my various game ideas I've been working on I haven't really had a chance to release any of the music itself. :P
@SimonJ57
3 ай бұрын
@@Pixelmusement After hearing the rest of your music, I'm certainly excited for it. Have you considered making an off-shoot channel, just for your music?
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
@@SimonJ57 Nah. At least, not at this time; not unless and until I became way better than I presently am. :B
@TServo2049
3 ай бұрын
Can you do Dazzle?
@Pixelmusement
3 ай бұрын
Not sure I can make a full video about that program... especially since I only learned what it even is two minutes ago. :P
@TServo2049
3 ай бұрын
@@Pixelmusement I guess I just assumed everyone knew what it was because we had it when I was a kid.
@XanthinZarda
3 ай бұрын
@@Pixelmusement Also, it'd be hard to find out anything since the company, Worldwide Microtronics underwent tax forfeiture back around 2009.
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