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Skytopia : Welcome to the highest place on the planet! is a personal blog at skytopia.com about math and design. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-11-11
- OpalCalc - Freeform Soulver-like calculator but for Windows4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-08
- Mystery of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-09-13
- The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-11
- The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb (2009)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-07
- /project/illusion/ipage-et.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-28
- /project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-17
- /software/opalcalc/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-10
- /stuff/lag.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-29
What Hacker News says?
Unless cloud gaming company intend to put servers in every single city across the globe it's not going to work. Even in Boston with good, fiber internet streaming games have too much lag and the compression artifacts are horrible. When there is fast movement the compression is much more noticeable, worse then the lag. Many reviewers doing graphical comparisons do it with static images. It's quite common for the whol…
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on “Google is shutting down Stadia”Submitted Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal as a story · 200 points
HN discussionIncidentally the linked Skytopia page is that of Daniel White, who originally described the Mandelbulb: https://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html / https://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
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on “New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes”Submitted The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb (2009) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI love SpeedCrunch , especially for dealing with different bases. For back-of-the-napkin type math, OpalCalc is my favorite. https://skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
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on “SpeedCrunch”Submitted OpalCalc - Freeform Soulver-like calculator but for Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussion35.9% - look up sRGB for more info. (!00% of what a monitor can do, but 35.9% of what the human eye can see - especially greens are lacking.) Have a look: http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/2illusion.html
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on “All RGB colors in one image”Submitted The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionfor Windows: OpalCalc more than nostalgic website but actively maintained: https://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/ calcing with time is a bit jumpy at times, but other than that I love it for quick napkin calcing stuff costs 15 bucks
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on “Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator”Submitted The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are some amazing images of fractals on the web. One site that was pointed out here in particular was the Mandelbub, which looks amazing: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
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on “Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP”Submitted SonicPhoto – Convert Pictures to Sounds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile not as clean or powerful as Soulver, OpalCalc looks quite interesting http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
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on “Flat Pixels”Submitted WildGem – 10x faster find/replace than Notepad++ and 10x easier than Regex as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFractals and 3D are an interesting problem: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html That page is older, but based on the performance at the time I'm still not sure you could render them in sufficient real-time to make VR a useful thing. (I leap to the assumption you're referring to 3D fractals because merely adding VR to a 2D fractal viewer does not seem like a useful thing to do.)
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on “Burning Ship Fractal”Submitted SunsetScreen – new variation on the F.lux theme (for Windows) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html This is the closest reference I could google. The article I am talking about had the author explain the various steps he went through, starting with rotating a 2d fractal, and move up the process to finally get the math equations to generate a truly 3d fractal.
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on “Developer Skills Report”Submitted The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince you can burn out the receptors temporarily simply by viewing saturated color in the same place in your visual field for a while, you can just do this sort of thing: http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/eclipse-of-mars-illusion.... Don't expect miracles of color, but it's sort of neat. This site claims to have more color variants, but these I haven't tried: http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html A…
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on “Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works”Submitted Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I simply don't buy the argument that the algorithms of cognition inherit any substantial amount of functionality from their physical implementation I'm somewhere in the middle on that. I wish for things biological to be clear-cut and deterministic enough that we can fully understand them the way we understand mechanical systems. But precisely because the brain is encoded in precious little DNA there is some eviden…
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on “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain”Submitted SunsetScreen: Like f.lux, with tweaks (Windows-only) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionpage 2: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html good link from page 2: http://www.bugman123.com/Hypercomplex/index.html
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on “Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal”Submitted Mandelbulb as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI really like the Soulver program that he mentions on the page for the "Scrubbing Calculator". I found a similar Windows/.NET program called OpalCalc: http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/ Time to do a web edition? Surely it already exists. Somebody help me out :P
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on “Kill Math”Submitted The Zeppelin Bend and Grapple Hitch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is OpalCalc for Windows: http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
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on “Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person”Submitted Best of the Web - 3D Fractal Gallery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy favorite ever "Impossible Color" illusion: Eclipse of Titan https://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html
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on “Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena”Submitted Mystery of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal as a story · 1 points
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