Archive for October, 2007

Totally demential and freestyle design… just pure fun needed sometimes.

“Where do we go, nobody knows
I’ve gotta say I’m on my way down
God give me style and give me grace
God put a smile upon my face

Where do we go, nobody knows
Don’t ever say you’re on your way down, when..
God gave you style and gave you grace
And put a smile upon your face ”
Coldplay, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

“It is true that, while busied only in considering the manners of other men, I found here, too, scarce any ground for settled conviction, and remarked hardly less contradiction among them than in the opinions of the philosophers. So that the greatest advantage I derived from the study consisted in this, that, observing many things which, however extravagant and ridiculous to our apprehension, are yet by common consent received and approved by other great nations, I learned to entertain too decided a belief in regard to nothing of the truth of which I had been persuaded merely by example and custom; and thus I gradually extricated myself from many errors powerful enough to darken our natural intelligence, and incapacitate us in great measure from listening to reason. But after I had been occupied several years in thus studying the book of the world, and in essaying to gather some experience, I at length resolved to make myself an object of study, and to employ all the powers of my mind in choosing the paths I ought to follow”
Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences, PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR (PART I)

An update to the Whirlwind post: new design added.

“But men, if they be in their own power, and do bear and sustain themselves, and be not carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set before their eyes not only that general map of the world, “That all things are vanity and vexation of spirit,” but many other more particular cards and directions: chiefly that, that being without well-being is a curse, and the greater being the greater curse; and that all virtue is most rewarded and all wickedness most punished in itself…”
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, The Second Book, XXIII.46

I’m maybe travelling in doldrums during the last week cos I’ve been very attracted by nimbus.
I’ve taken these photos… waiting for the sun!

New release available here: RenderFlam3

This is just a simple maintenance release.
I’ve found a minor bug regarding Zoom (Camera Zoom) property that was fixed.
Added support for Flam3 2.7.6 and Apophysis 2.06c 3D Hack.

A couple of words about Apo 3D Hack are needed: Flam3 actually doesn’t support the new Apo’s 3D features so the script can be used only to create traditional 2D Flame animations.

Download here (right click / Save As): RenderFlam3.zip

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v 1.3.1 – 25 Oct. 2007
* Added support for Apophysis 2.06c 3D hack
* Added support for Flam3 2.7.6
* Camera Zoom minor bugs fixed
* Minor updates:
** Some code optimizations
** Better supersample/oversample check
** Bat file: end comment modified
** “LoopKF” name added back

“Illustrious is it to have many virtues, but a hard lot; and many a one hath gone into the wilderness and killed himself, because he was weary of being the battle and battlefield of virtues.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, V. JOYS AND PASSIONS

And i remember laughing so much we cried
You knew my every thought, there was
Nothing i could hide
We celebrated moons we marvelled at
The night sky
With flute and drum and pen we were
Grateful for our lives

I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love…love…love…love
Killing Joke, Absent Friends, Democracy