Dave Matthews wrote:
> Last February, Sam Benge introduced a very cool technique and some great images,
> created by iterative mapping of images onto discs:
> 
> Since rendering this, I thought of a way to eliminate the "cut-off" where the
> fractal goes off the edge of the box.  I now use planes, and just shrink and
> map the pigments on the planes.  Also, when the fractal overlaps itself, you
> need to choose which plane goes on top -- this leads to slightly different
> images, even though the actual attractors are the same.

Cool image.

I'm not sure I understand your exact method, but I'm sure it helps. Why 
is the POV-Ray render hard-edged, while the Apophysis image looks soft? 
You could probably get a smoother result by fiddling with the pigment.

It would be nice to generate these images in POV without also generating 
a long sequence of animation frames. If there was a way to rename the 
output image in POV without using an external application to do so, I 
would be pretty happy about it :) Maybe I'll raise a question in p.a-u. 
I was actually thinking of this earlier, but found no solution in the 
documentation. I found no working solution short of calling an external 
program to rename the file, anyway. I don't know how to make C++ rename 
a file, so I'm sort of stuck.

Sam

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