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I was having serious issues with the my old fractal site (www.palmpage.com/apop) because of the large number of images and flames in the single folder and the large number of thumbnails displayed on a single page. Many browsers and FTP applications choked and things often timed out. So, I created a new one and linked to old one to it. Check out (www.palmpage.com/fractals).
The cool thing about it is that it dynamically updates the web pages whenever I want to FTP new images to it. This allows me to set up some automatic FTP backups of my fractal folders so that any new fractals (with parameters embedded) are backed up to the web site on a regular basis, the parameters are safe from people who don't have a login (which I will give out on request), each image page has the creative commons license clearly displayed, and the web site doesn't have to be maintained.
It uses free software available for download at Sourceforge (phpgraphy.sourceforge.net/) and the folks on the help forum there at Sourceforge are very helpful in customizing the very easy setup. What you see on my site is the base install with a customized welcome message, header, and a modification to not display file names under each thumbnail. Other than that, it is right out of the box. I was initially hoping that PHPgraphy would display the embedded parameters on each image page (based on user security level), but alas it cannot read the parameters the the fractal images. I later found out that most applications and none of the web albums that I found could, so I decided to stay with PHPgraphy because it is so easy to set up and truly painless to update. I've been around long enough to realize that if it is a pain to update, updates don't get done. If anyone wants some pointers in setting this up, there are free and/or very, very cheap options to do something like this. My site, with more web space and monthly bandwidth than I could ever use, only costs $9 a month.
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The cool thing about it is that it dynamically updates the web pages whenever I want to FTP new images to it. This allows me to set up some automatic FTP backups of my fractal folders so that any new fractals (with parameters embedded) are backed up to the web site on a regular basis, the parameters are safe from people who don't have a login (which I will give out on request), each image page has the creative commons license clearly displayed, and the web site doesn't have to be maintained.
It uses free software available for download at Sourceforge (phpgraphy.sourceforge.net/) and the folks on the help forum there at Sourceforge are very helpful in customizing the very easy setup. What you see on my site is the base install with a customized welcome message, header, and a modification to not display file names under each thumbnail. Other than that, it is right out of the box. I was initially hoping that PHPgraphy would display the embedded parameters on each image page (based on user security level), but alas it cannot read the parameters the the fractal images. I later found out that most applications and none of the web albums that I found could, so I decided to stay with PHPgraphy because it is so easy to set up and truly painless to update. I've been around long enough to realize that if it is a pain to update, updates don't get done. If anyone wants some pointers in setting this up, there are free and/or very, very cheap options to do something like this. My site, with more web space and monthly bandwidth than I could ever use, only costs $9 a month.
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DOH!
Just had one of those OH CRAP! moments. I intended to delete all the files in my folder with "par" as part of the name. Worked great...except it also deleted my PARAMETER folder with all my M3D thumbnails and parameters! Luckily, everything through yesterday was backed up, and I've posted the 15 or 18 missing parameters on Google Plus. So I can get them back, but it sure would be nice to have batch M3P -> TXT and batch TXT -> M3P capability. So happy that I've been sharing all my parameters on G+ though. Not only does it allow others to play with them, but really saves my bacon when I do something uber dumb! LOL
Like a bad rash than won't go away, I'm BAAAACK!
It's been a crazy year and I haven't been around for a while. Moved into a new place and got it all set up, got both of my kids through high school, and stayed real busy as the head moderator over on Theologica (theologica.ning.com). Haven't done fractals in a long, long time. Then, last Sunday, an online friend posted something from Mandelbulb 3D. Blew me away and I had to check it out. And in the last five nights, I've been up past 5am on four of them - partly because of insomnia and partly because I was so lost in M3D that I couldn't find my way back home. :) I've been busy though. I only post a small bit of my work here on DA. For
My ordeal may be coming to an end
If you have followed my journal for the last three years, you know about my fight with an insurance company that used my computer's ability to render fractals as some justification that I was not disabled. They have now agreed, however, to arbitration in the case. It is scheduled for next Tuesday. It is going to be an all day ordeal and I will be spending it between my wheelchair and a reclining camp chair that I am going to have to bring myself.
My ordeal with my insurance company may go away next week....but so may all information I have posted about what they have put me through. If you want to see/archive it before it is possibly gone
An Easy Explanation of Fractals
Just posted a short web page explaining fractals for all those that have asked me the question over the years. You can read it at this (http://bit.ly/FractalTutorial). I tried to use non-technical language as if I were going to be teaching this to home-school kids or something. If you haven't seen the videos I link to there though, you should really check them out.
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That's a huge gallery Daniel Do you never sleep?