Archive for October, 2008

Oh no love! you’re not alone
You’re watching yourself but you’re too unfair
You got your head all tangled up but if I could only make you care
Oh no love! you’re not alone
No matter what or who you’ve been
No matter when or where you’ve seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I’ve had my share, I’ll help you with the pain
You’re not alone
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide - David Bowie

Three interesting Refraction videos by Licht.

Short and fast!

I’ve tested RenderFlam3 1.3.6 using the last Flam3 2.7.16 release.
The Script finds the new version correctly when it’s used both in “plain” and “sub” folders installations.

The script works perfectly in conjunction with the latest Flam3 versions but it supports all the features up to 2.7.11 one.
I don’t have updated the whole thing, during the last months, due to lack of spare time and no users demand but the Apophysis-Flam3 combo is still viable using the script.

And, to speak of human affairs, I believe that the pre-eminence of Sparta was due not to the goodness of each of its laws in particular, for many of these were very strange, and even opposed to good morals, but to the circumstance that, originated by a single individual, they all tended to a single end. In the same way I thought that the sciences contained in books (such of them at least as are made up of probable reasonings, without demonstrations), composed as they are of the opinions of many different individuals massed together, are farther removed from truth than the simple inferences which a man of good sense using his natural and unprejudiced judgment draws respecting the matters of his experience. And because we have all to pass through a state of infancy to manhood, and have been of necessity, for a length of time, governed by our desires and preceptors (whose dictates were frequently conflicting, while neither perhaps always counseled us for the best), I farther concluded that it is almost impossible that our judgments can be so correct or solid as they would have been, had our reason been mature from the moment of our birth, and had we always been guided by it alone.
René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences, PART II

GPU Flame Fractal Renderer - new version available

Developed using CUDA; it needs “GeForce 8″ or newer nVidia cards, it also supports Quadro and Tesla cards.
Take a look here about CUDA supported cards: nVidia CUDA-Enabled GPU Products

Changelog
Flam4 0.08 - 2008-10-24 15:31
Now with density estimation!

Flam4CUDA v0.06 - 2008-10-12 08:23
The first release of Flam4 running with CUDA has been released!

I feel like something is cracking the Harmony.

Previous two designs

There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell
And the moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
Brothers in Arms - Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)

The SPAM bombing against my blog is increasing day after day.
I was taking a look to the SPAM stats today and I’ve got to say that only one message was published in a range of more than two years.

That’s really funny!
Keep on pushing on your keyboards and clicking on your send-SPAM tools; that’s one is an activity that can make you happy if you’re stupid enough… or “someone must have told you if you work too hard you can sweat” (The Stranglers, Always The Sun).

That’s all!

Oh no love! you’re not alone
You’re watching yourself but you’re too unfair
You got your head all tangled up but if I could only make you care
Oh no love! you’re not alone
No matter what or who you’ve been
No matter when or where you’ve seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I’ve had my share, I’ll help you with the pain
You’re not alone
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide - David Bowie

Scrittori, artisti, danzatori, fotografi, registi, musicisti. Quanti sono i talenti nati e cresciuti in Puglia che si sono affermati lontano dalla propria terra, per scelta o più spesso per necessità. Hanno raggiunto il successo e la notorietà, hanno ottenuto premi e riconoscimenti prestigiosi in tutto il mondo, lasciando comunque ogni volta una traccia ben visibile delle proprie origini in ciò che sono riusciti a realizzare. Eppure molti di essi sono sconosciuti alla maggioranza dei propri conterranei, destinati talvolta a un oblìo inspiegabile.

Con “In Puglia contromano. Il ritorno dei talenti e delle arti”, vorremmo idealmente riportarne a casa alcuni. Chiederemo loro di fare il percorso a ritroso, contromano appunto, senza alcun intento nostalgico, ma al contrario per mostrare ciò che hanno fatto, per spiegare come e perché. Simboli di creatività e di straordinarie capacità intellettuali, da indicare come esempio a quanti sono qui e cercano di costruire, non senza difficoltà, un futuro per sé e per questi bellissimi luoghi.

Il progetto, ideato da Carlo Annese e Vittorio Bruno Stamerra, è realizzato dalla Hobos, con la collaborazione del Teatro Pubblico Pugliese e dei comuni di Ceglie Messapica, Mesagne e Ostuni, dell’Istituto Alberghiero di Brindisi e del Gruppo Quarta Caffè, nonché il patrocinio dell’Assessorato Regionale al Mediterraneo e dell’Amministrazione Provinciale di Brindisi. Si articola in cinque eventi, tra il 20 ottobre e il 29 novembre: tutti gli appuntamenti avranno ingresso gratuito, con la sola eccezione della presentazione del film “Galantuomini” di Edoardo Winspeare, e si terranno in quattro Comuni della provincia di Brindisi.