Jurassic Park Fractal

[freeskier89]

Here is something I made a while back that generates a jurassic park fractal (aka dragon curve). Warning: It's pretty cpu intensive... Thats why c# is sooo much better for things like these. Comments are welcome! I'll add the fla in a bit. Can't do it now because the filesize is too big...

~FLA (http://home.bresnan.net/~bcreavis/dragon.fla)

[Templarian]

not bad. mabey good for the background on a site. if it was slowed down as to not kill someones computer. i see no real lag in it when i tested it really nice job.

[TheCanadian]

That looks so cool. The image below took 16 hours to complete and was running at 70% CPU usage. It was worth it :).

[Templarian]

wow?

[freeskier89]

Sweet TheCanadian! I haven't run it for that long. :hugegrin: Awesome.

Edit: Heres the fla by the way (see first post)

[kirupa]

Just out of curiosity, why is it called the "Jurassic Park" fractal?

[freeskier89]

Answering Kirupa's question:

It's the fractal that was displayed to show the multiple iterations of Jurassic Park in Michael Crichton's book. In other words every 5 or so chapters it showed the next iteration of the fractal. He selected the dragon curve because it looked fitting to the book. Now the dragon curve is commonly refered to as the Jurassic Park fractal now. ;)

ps: The Lost World (sequel to Jurassic Park) uses cellular automata instead of the dragon curve. Just thought I would throw that in :lol:

[kirupa]

Ah - that's what I get for watching the movies as opposed to reading the books that became movies ;)

[Seb Hughes]

Wow pretty neat

[pom]

Neato.

[mathew.er]

did anyone get this further then TheCanadian? i dont have patience to try it :lol:

[squan]

Awsome,

say freeskier89, mind if I use it for my thesis? It has a part on fractals too and this swf is ideal for explaining how fractals work! :thumb:

[freeskier89]

Hey thanks everyone for the positive comments! :thumb: Rather than spending 13+ hours rendering it, I might make one in C# here soon so that it will be 20x faster. Then Rather than rendering it as a base-motif fractal I might use the lindemayer system method. Having a stack thousands of numbers long makes it a bit more sluggish.

@squanman- I suppose not. You may use it unless you say you totally made it, but it should be alright. ;)

[TheCanadian]

And the record holds :).

[squan]

@squanman- I suppose not. You may use it unless you say you totally made it, but it should be alright. ;)[/QUOTE]


Well like all of my resources I'll put your name up in the special thanks-section of my presentation. Just pm me your full name and I'll mention it.

If you'd like I could also mail you the final swf of my presentation and see what I've done with your work.

[mathew.er]

And the record holds :).
I almost got you... I had one iteration more than you already completed and was going for more, but unfortunately, I had to restart the system. :D
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3522/clipboard013qh.th.jpg (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard013qh.jpg)

[freeskier89]

hmm... I really should make that c# l-system generator... It should be done in a few days if I am ambitious.

[TheCanadian]

I almost got you... I had one iteration more than you already completed and was going for more, but unfortunately, I had to restart the system. :D
I was went for another after the one I posted but it froze my computer. Luckily I saved a copy first. How long did the that take you?

[mathew.er]

TheCanadian: i opened that in stand-alone flash player and set lower priority to it and it took like a day till this stage

[icio]

very nice :)

[GPP]

Ugh record lol

[freeskier89]

Working on C# l-system app currently. Will have it done in a day or two! :D

[mlk]

This is really neat. though as with most experiments, I'm just thinking of what flash8 will do (display pixels much quicker) and it makes me cry.