FRACTINT was a 16-bit DOS program for creating fractal images that has been around since 1988. It was always available as an open source program and predates the use of the term "open source" by about a decade. FRACTINT was improved and extended by many developers over the course of many years, but never really made a successful transition to a GUI environment. Iterated Dynamics (Id) is a fork of FRACTINT that brings the program into the future. It is an answer to the age-old question for 'dusty deck' software projects: rewrite or refactor? For Id, Richard chose refactor. In this talk, Richard describes his journey of reviving this code as a project on github with it's first release.
Richard Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer for NVIDIA where he works on GPU raytracing. He is the creator of the Terminals Wiki, maintainer of the manx online documentation database and is the principal effort behind the Computer Graphics Museum in Salt Lake City. The museum has a collection of artifacts housed in storage with future plans for a public exhibit hall.
Iterated Dynamics: github.com/leg...
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