Update: I am sending in robots - see video :)
Ok, so in order to work with the new version of "Start Here" robot, (which is cross compatible Arduino / PICAXE), I had to learn more Arduino code.
So.. I kinda drifted off, and learned some Processing..
And that kinda drifted me towards a LOT of *interesting stuff*.. which I will not feed into this post.. but it was all very interesting.
I learned how to make videos by saving thousands and thousands of images.
That killed my hard drive - some indexing just got overloaded by perhaps 50,000 hi res images being generated all the time, moved, deleted, re-generated.. computer got slow, wiped all, purchased external hard drive.
Now I could make looong renderings (good when you want to be creative, but have no time; let the computer work by itself for a couple of days, come back, change someting, let it work for days again).
THAT lead me to this:
http://www.openprocessing.org/search/?q=fractal
and SPECIALLY this:
http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/73427
NOW WE ARE TALKING!
I edited a little, and made my own little flying simulator; Code that in various ugly ways would change parameters, and save images.
That made me fly through some serious nice landscapes!
And THEN for some reason, I wondered if there where other options out there..
THAT lead me to this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/
OMG; NOW WE ARE TALKING!!!
(And please note, this is all robot related, because I really did start off by that Start Here project)
MAN, some flybys.. Now I have an extra computer with an extra hard drive rendering fly through of spaced out copper steam punk landscapes that I set up..
Make sure you ZOOM IN to see the level of details:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103505891807292457556/FractalsTheyAreHotAgain#5817838859052462834
(Or just click the main picture of this post, to get an idea :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STP07ys2BM
