fractals
We now return you to our regularly-scheduled career.
Just finished reading one of Dean’s blog posts:
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=5822
and had the reaction “Oh yeah! That’s what I was going to do.”
So hopefully I can get back into the groove this week.
By the way, for those of you who gave me your email address along with a request, I have lost one of the spiral binders I used for recording these tbings, so please email me if it seems I’m neglecting you.
Setting up at Orycon art show
This is the first art show where I can go outside the building and smell pot. Given my art, though, this seems oddly appropriate.
Preparing for Orycon
Tentatively Cthuluphant, Seer of the Flies, mybe the Solstices, some daemons from the Summoner Shoppe ebook, hmm, what else….
Recovering from tthe World Fantasy Convention
I got an idea for a fractal piece I will call “Anansi on a Pangolin.” Quite an inspieing xonvention
World Fantasy Convention
The fractal art is set up and checked in
Thanks to Kris Rusch for mentioning me in her Amazon blog
Many thanks to Kris Rusch for mentioning “Penyon’s Useful Guide” in her Amazon book review section
Free coupon up here:
Thank you to Conduit attendees
Thanks to everyone who came to the art show to see my fractal art at Conduit: Space Pirates of Conduit in Salt Lake City. And thanks to those who complimented and bought art.
Special thanks to Joe and Heather Monson for making the art show such an excellent experience.
Art Gallery Preparation
I’m currently preparing art and descriptions for an art gallery appearance. It will be at Cafe Libertalia in San Diego. For more information see this site:
http://www.kinagency.com/
Yes, I know that the information’s not up yet. I’m writing it now.
Immature technology
The NVidia card I bought to render my fractals with CUDA technology works amazingly fast. An average fractal which previously took 2 hours to render now can take 15 minutes.
Theoretically.
Unfortunately this is immature technology, and so the CUDA renderers are so buggy that more often than not I’ll get a picture full of fuzzy blobs. That would be great if the fractal was supposed to be full of fuzzy blobs, but unfortunately it’s supposed to be dragons or Rorschach-esque bilateral figures or leaves or some such.
Just having the card, though, speeds up a render significantly. Instead of two and a half hours, sometimes I only have to wait one and a half hours. That’s still a thousand-word wait time, so stories and fractals are still coexisting nicely.
Therapeutic Randomness
I’ve been in a bit of a Marvin-type mood lately. I decided to try out a few random acts of randomness to see if Marvin will go and bother someone else, and let me get some work done.
Random act one: I added a donate button to this site. Why? Because it makes me happy. All the cool authors have “donate” buttons and now I have one, too.
Random act two: A test anim for the upcoming “A Child’s Primer of Demon Summoning.”
Fractals