HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.exploding.kibo,alt.non.sequitur
Subject: Re:
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:20:11 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


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(artwork by jeff lewis...)

bah.


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Newsgroups: alt.exploding.kibo,alt.non.sequitur
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Re:
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:46:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.202011.6414@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>
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BUAF by M Welsh. I'd do it in cyrillic, but I'm too lazy to recompile the
program.


mdw
warlord me now 


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Xref: sparky alt.allsysop:82 alt.bbs.ads:1352 comp.org.eff.talk:5696
From: cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha)
Newsgroups: alt.allsysop,alt.bbs.ads,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
Date: 5 Sep 92 09:57:36 GMT
Organization: Real/Time Communications

In article <1992Sep3.130145.6770@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
>
>Guns and weapons, up to an extent, are needed for security.  But the
>arms race was making weapons well beyond the need for defense.  This
>industry, then, is a black hole.  Very little is gained in wealth or
>comfort from the extra weapons themselves.  The money that was used to
>create them kept something of value from coming into existence.
>-- 

Hmmm... seems to me that having all those weapons on my side would make me
a bit more comfortable than if they were owned & operated by The Bad Guys.
No, I'm not arguing for more weapons, but it's not a *total* black hole.
Xref: sparky alt.allsysop:85 alt.bbs.ads:1377 comp.org.eff.talk:5791
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 16:40:53 EDT
From: Eric J. Leach <IO20637@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.allsysop,alt.bbs.ads,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
 <1992Sep3.130145.6770@tijc02.uucp> <1992Sep5.095736.13226@wixer.cactus.org>
 <1992Sep9.015743.26539@umr.edu>

I am also a Sysop. I run a WWIV board on a 386 40Mhz with a 170 Meg HD... I onl
y have one line but I hope to improve it someday... # is (207) 469-3713
Newsgroups: alt.allsysop,alt.bbs.ads,comp.org.eff.talk
From: cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha)
Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 22:11:55 GMT

In article <exukjb.113.715410243@exu.ericsson.se> exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) writes:
>
>agency") was $5,052,000,000.00 [that's over a half a trillion baby], while 
>the defense appropriations for the same year were less than $300-billion?  

interesting figuring you do.  5 billion is *not* half a trillion.
defense spending less than 300 billion?  still too much for me, thank you.

Xref: sparky alt.allsysop:83 alt.bbs.ads:1366 comp.org.eff.talk:5735
From: kireland@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Kelley Ireland)
Newsgroups: alt.allsysop,alt.bbs.ads,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:57:43 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

In article <1992Sep5.095736.13226@wixer.cactus.org> cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.130145.6770@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
>>
>>Guns and weapons, up to an extent, are needed for security.  But the
>>arms race was making weapons well beyond the need for defense.  This
>>industry, then, is a black hole.  Very little is gained in wealth or
>>comfort from the extra weapons themselves.  The money that was used to
>>create them kept something of value from coming into existence.
>>-- 
>
>Hmmm... seems to me that having all those weapons on my side would make me
>a bit more comfortable than if they were owned & operated by The Bad Guys.
>No, I'm not arguing for more weapons, but it's not a *total* black hole.

  I just read all of the available articles in alt.allsysop, expecting to
find something relating to sysops in some way.  All I found was a bunch
of multiple-newsgroup posts about Kuwait and George Bush.  Why???  All of
these messages have apparently been posted to alt.bbs.ads, also.  What's
the deal?  Isn't there a political newsgroup that would be more 
appropriate for such a conversation?  

  Just checking...

  Anyways, to get on to something more related to the newsgroup I'm
posting in...

  Are there any actual sysop's out there?  I run a local board, single
line, on an IBM compatible using QuickBBS 2.75.  I'm interested in
talking with someone who runs a BBS on a Unix system, to find out
what kinds of BBS software is available on Unix, and other similar
info.

  E-mail replies appreciated just as much as posts... it should be on
the message somewhere, but you can send e-mail to me at:
kireland@cs.umr.edu

  Thanks in advance for any replies...
From: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Re: Looking for chaos
Date: 5 Sep 92 01:41:10 GMT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r


     -=> Martin Olbrich spoke of "Looking for chaos" <=-
    To All at 09-03-92  08:40

 MO> Hi!  I have some turbulence data taken for the purpose of using it for
 MO> statistical analysis. This data comprises 5 sets of 4096 data values, 
 MO> with each value being the velocity at a point, sampled at 6000 Hz.
 MO> Each  of the five sets is further downwind from the turbulence source.
 MO> Having  analysed this data using the guessian distribution and its
 MO> associated  mathematics, I am interested to see if I can find any
 MO> chaotic behaviour,  since turbulence is allegedly chaotic.

Acording to Mandlebrot it IS chaotic he studied turbulence.

 MO> To date I have tried to plot Velocity(n) vs V(n+1), and then a 3D 
 MO> progression ie. blah vs V(n+2). When this didn't work I plotted V(n)
 MO> vs      d/dtV(n) using central difference, and then into 3D with
 MO> d^2/dt^2V(n). None  of this worked. I then tried a bastardised Poincare
 MO> section (a thicker  slice in  order to retain a larger number of
 MO> points) on each of the above  data sets, still with nothing  more than
 MO> a slightly correlated blob (ie, an  elliptical blotch instead of a
 MO> circular patch).

Try reading Mandelbrots ground breaking work.  That is his first
book on fractals you might glean something from thier.  My guess
is you should lookk at fractal image compression techniques and
use them to determine the fract type being demonstrated.

 MO> Am I doing something Wrong??? Am I barking up the wrong tree? I
 MO> suppose I'm  looking for an attractor of some sort..is there none to be
 MO> found using these  methods, or do I just have too many degrees of
 MO> freedom? If anyone has any  clues, please help.

 realy your dealing with chaos!  Chaos has a added deminsion.
 You will need to analyze your data a "frame" at a time.  if you
 can get a 2 dimension map you willl be in GOOD shape.  That will
 allow the use of IFS transforms to discover what you are
 looking at.

 MO> I know that aliasing is present in the data (about 200 Hz worth at the
 MO> top end of the spectrum).. would this be a significant problem?

 It might introduce so fractal round off error so to speak.  My
 guess is don't MESS with the data.  If I remember Madlebrots
 discussion on turbulence is that it has a recursive nature IE
 big eddies form smaller eddies that are of identical fractal
 shape down to the molecular level.  SO if that is the case then
 using IFS pattern recognition will show this to the smallest
 granularity of your sample.

        Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
        Scripted at Fri  09-04-1992  09:55:43

... Darnit, Jim.  I'm a doctor. Not a good actor.
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Newsgroups: alt.fractals
From: jsavola@lut.fi (Jussi Savola)
Subject: new fractint features ? 
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:13:55 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Keywords: fractint


I'm sorry if this is FAQ, but...

Are you great guys, who make fractint, thinking about taking into 
account the possibilities of new 32 Kcolor video-cards ?

jsavola

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From: jesjones@milton.u.washington.edu (Jesse Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Fractal papers available via FTP.
Keywords: Fractal Paper FTP Mandella
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:51:27 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


 A while back I posted a message about some short papers I wrote
describing various aspects of writing fractal programs. I FTPed
them to ftp.coe.montana.edu some time ago but I haven't heard back
from the sysop. Currently, they are in the tmp directory. If you
can't FTP I could mail or post them again.
  
   A brief summary of the papers is included below. These papers are
the distilled wisdom of several years work on a fractal program 
called Mandella for the Mac. Enjoy!


Escape Time Formulas -- Has formulas for 23 Mandel/Julia fractals, 
6 misc formulas, 6 Newton fractals, and 2 Halley fractals.

Orbital Formulas -- Discusses how to draw both dynamical system and 
IFS fractals. Includes formulas for ten dynamical systems.

Draw Style -- Discusses ten different methods for drawing fractals. 
Includes stuff like Level Set, Decomposition, Continuous Potential, 
Distance Estimator, etc.

Transforms -- Eight different ways to transform fractals once they've 
been drawn. Includes stuff like convolution, edge detectors, eversion, 
etc.

3D Transform -- Explanation and code for transforming a fractal into 
a 3D representation (based on the algorithm in the Science of Fractal
Images).

Cordic Math -- Discusses a fast algorithm for the computation of 
elementary functions that works well with fixed point math. The same 
algorithm can be used to generate Sin, Cos, Tan, ArcTan, Sinh, Cosh, 
Tanh, ArcTanh, Ln, Exp, and square-root.

Cordic.m -- An implementation of the Cordic math routines in Modula-2.

  jesjones@milton.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
From: rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeffrey C. Rogers)
Subject: fractal types (?)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:29:26 GMT


I was wondering about some fractals that aren't in fractint (I think).

The first is a type of diffusion fractal. 
Simulate a forest fire of types: start with 1 point, and all adjoining
points have a given probability of turning on. It's really a life program
where you adjust the probability of spreading. I don't think it's in
fractint - why not?

The second are worms. 
I remember seeing them in some book by Martin Gardener. Quadrille and
isomeric worms, that eat grid lines by predetermined rules. Maybe they could
be done using lsystem fractals. (Anyone ever hear of these besides me? I
don't recall all the details)

Diversion
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From: wamacher@infoserv.com (Wayne E. Amacher)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: IEEE EMAIL ADDRESSES
Keywords: IEEE,EMAIL,ADDRESS
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 21:17:09 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Amacher Enterprises, Sunnyvale, CA

IEEE EMAIL ADDRESSES

This is in answer to Tan Gim Wee's request about how to reach 
IEEE Headquarters via Email.  I will email it to him and also 
post it on ieee.general.  

RAB.NJ@ieee.org is the email address for IEEE Field Services.  
That should get you directly or indirectly to wherever you want.  

Also try the following:

     email.guide@ieee.org  -- *current version of IEEE email guide

     email.services@ieee.org -- *current master list of email 
     services provided by the IEEE

     info.chap.services@ieee.org -- *Chapter support services

     info.directory@ieee.org -- *info on the email directory

     directory@ieee.org -- a huge file of email addresses at 
     ieee.org

     ABOUT 18 MORE INFORMATION SOURCES LIKE THE ABOVE ARE LISTED 
     AT email.guide@ieee.org.  

     ....................
     .......................


When you send a message to an address marked *, you will 
automatically receive a pre-written text file as a response.  
When you send to other addresses be sure to include sufficient 
contact information to be answered. 


ANNOUNCEMENT

The IEEE Email committee wants a contact person for every 
council, section, chapter, student branch and PACE chair.  If you 
are on the net and can serve as a contact for your local section, 
chapter, or student branch, please talk to your local entity, get 
approved as the contact, and then please let t.burns@ieee.org 
know.  

Please help to get all of IEEE "on-line".
     

IEEE EMAIL COORDINATORS

Each of the IEEE geographical regions has an email coordinator.  
the names are listed at email.guide@ieee.org.  I am the Email 
Coordinator for Region 6.  We are here to help to get the IEEE 
networked!


Wayne
From: sabattin@cs.unibo.it (Paolo Sabattini)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: DOC & soft on Fractal Image Compression Wanted
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:53:13 GMT
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Originator: sabattin@aida



University of Bologna, 18/07/92
From Paolo Sabattini : EMail sabattin@cs.unibo.it

   I'm a student in computer science and I'm looking for documentatio
n and programs about fractals, Barnsley's theorem of Collage, and
image compression with fractal methods.
   If you have some information about this argument,please contact me
at the E-Mail address :
                              
                            sabattin@cs.unibo.it
or send me the documetation via newsgroup in alt.fractals.


     Thank you very much.
                                                     Paolo Sabattini
From: z_youngwd@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Fractal Image compression
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:12:03 GMT
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

---
Hello all.

I have posted my work to date on fractal image compression
in /tmp at ftp.uu.net.

There are 2 files... one is unifs09b.zip and the other is ifs2tga.zip.

unifs09b.zip contains source and msdos .exe for my decompressor.
Several original and compressed versions of images are included.

A 386 with coprocessor is required (atleast)
and 640x480x256 colors is recommended.

ifs2tga.zip contains source and msdos .exe for decompressing
the .ifs (compressed) files to targa format.  Since the source
is included, this should work on most platforms.

All code is 'C'... compiled with DJGPP 1.08
Thanks to DJ.

Send any replies directly to me at z_youngwd@ccsvax.sfasu.edu

(I am not a 'C' programmer... I just know enough to get by... so no hate mail)

I hope this gives you an idea of what is going on in this area right now.

Thanks.

Wayne
z_youngwd@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 1992 21:08:15 EDT
From: T. Peter Leone <IO20823@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject:    Fractint for Mac?

 Hi! I have used Fractint before on a PC. But now that I am at school, I don't
have access to a PC. I do however have a Mac LC. Is there a version of Fractint
that will run on this machine? I'd like to be able to get it via FTP.

Peace,
T. Peter Leone
P.S. I'd just like to say thanks to the Stone Soup Group for  coming up with
such a great program like Fractint. THANKS!
From: anarch@Apple.COM (The Anarch)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Re: fractal types (?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:26:44 GMT
Organization: Secular Humanists from Hell

In article <-t4y_4q@rpi.edu> rogerj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeffrey C. Rogers) writes:
>[...]
>The second are worms. 
>I remember seeing them in some book by Martin Gardener. Quadrille and
>isomeric worms, that eat grid lines by predetermined rules. Maybe they could
>be done using lsystem fractals. (Anyone ever hear of these besides me? I
>don't recall all the details)

     These are not fractals.  There *might* be a way to simulate them with
L-systems, but I can't see it offhand.  I have a partially written worm
program for the Mac (it also does spirolaterals, described in the same book).
If people express interest, I might be inspired to finish it...

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Newsgroups: alt.fractals
From: bantolph@carina.unm.edu (Bard's are the Best)
Subject: X-fractint
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 02:56:59 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

	Sorry to ask a question that has been posed about a billion
times before, but I have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of
a Sun Sparc 630MP at work and at last it is here. I had been hanging
on to a sheet of paper on where to FTP x-fractint from, but now
that the time is finally here I cannot find it.

Please tell me where x-fractint is available.

	Thanks,

	bantolph@carina.unm.edu
From: mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Re: Fractint colormaps wanted
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:26:17 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:

>I'm thinking of adding new, exciting colormaps to the next release of
>xfractint.  So send me your favorite fractint/xfractint colormaps.  Imagine
>how proud you'll be when people around the world use _your_ colormap. :-)

>Ken Shirriff				shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU

If it's been posted in alt.fractals, do you have it, or should we send you
any and all colormaps?
(Asking on behalf of everyone), 
Mike Gebis  m-gebis@uiuc.edu
From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Re: Fractint colormaps wanted
Date: 9 Sep 1992 05:03:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: hijack.berkeley.edu

In article <BuAEnu.BI2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis) writes:
>If it's been posted in alt.fractals, do you have it, or should we send you
>any and all colormaps?

I don't have any colormaps that have been previously posted in alt.fractals,
so you can send me those too.

Ken Shirriff				shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
From: tj06+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas J. Joyce)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Fractals for VMS/DECwindows
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:14:05 GMT
Organization: Administrative Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hello,

    I've sat back and read this newsgroup for a while. Does anyone know
of a VMS/DECwindows Fractals/Mandelbrot Set generator? I have a color
VAXstation 4000-VLC and wouldn't mind seeing what it could do.

Tom Joyce
Carnegie-Mellon Administrative Systems
From: brotty@spuddy.uucp (Ray Girvan)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: Chaotic tilings
Keywords: chaos, fractals, tesselation
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:07:45 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

Can anyone advise?
 
I've just read an article in a 1990 issue of Mathematics Review
(a school math journal) mentioning work by Martin Golubitsky
(University of Texas) and Mike Field (University of Sydney) on
chaotic tiling patterns - unfortunately no references, though.
 
Does anyone know off-hand of any papers/articles by them on this
subject?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Ray Girvan
brotty@spuddy.uucp
 
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Newsgroups: alt.fractals
From: darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu (Darrin P Cardani)
Subject: Re: Fractint for Mac?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:43:28 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu


In article <861.1004.uupcb@satalink.com>, bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)  writes:
> TP> I do however have a Mac LC. Is there a version of Fractint
> TP> that will run on this machine?
> 
> To the best of our knowledge, Fractint has never been ported
> to the Macintosh environment.  Wish I had a better answer for
> you, but I don't.
> 
>                    Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
> ---
>  . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?
>       
I've debated it before, but I just don't have the time.
Anyway, try using MandelZot which you can get from sumex-aim.stanford.edu
in the info-mac/apps directory, I believe.
							Darrin Cardani
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: alt.fractals
Subject: new fractint features ?
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

JS>Are you great guys, who make fractint, thinking about taking into
JS>account the possibilities of new 32 Kcolor video-cards ?

Jussie, we're talking about it, but to date nobody's taken on the
task.  The problem is that Fractint's core code is positively *riddled*
with assumptions that a pixel value fits into a byte (IE, has the
range 0-255).  There are a *ton* of equivalenced arrays that use
this assumption, for instance.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
---
 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?