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I don't mind the homework.

It is the dull repetitiveness.  The worthless questions.  The lack of sunlight.  The lack of interest.


Oh, and although the Japs did bomb us first, we still shouldn't have utterly annihilated 300,000 innocent lives.  Drop the bomb in the harbor first, and show them we aren't bluffing.

Truman was an asshole.

That was pretty much a doctrine at the time. Kill some thousend civilians and the country will surrender. The V2's and the bombing of Dresden were perfect examples of this. Ofcourse afterwards sociological studies and tactical assesments showed that those kind of campaings usualy had quite the oposit effect, but they didn't know that during WW II

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2^n = 10^m can only be true if M or N isn't an integer.

2^0 = 1
10^0 = 1

Zero is definitely integer. Perhaps you meant "natural"?

Wups forgot about 0. Yes, 0 is the only integer that would fit the description. Any other integer (positive or negative) doesn't.

That thing is awesome.   

I didn't mean you couldn't make good stuff whit blender, it's just that... ok damn you proved me wrong. *sulks* Apparently I'm one of those very few people then.

The word you're looking for would be less efficient or harder. One can paint the mona lisa in paint, but it's easier in photoshop. But do note that in most cases it's a question of adapting, especialy when it coms to the difference between blender, which is very fast if you know all the hotkeys, and Maya, which is faster if you don't know all the hotkeys.

This whole discussion. I wouldn't call it useless or anything, but it's diverging from the point. It's interesting to see that you're so vigorously debating a definition question without actualy asking yourselves what kind of importance the definition actual holds. Because to me it seems that you're debating because the word religion holds some special contonation that you either want to ascosiate atheims with, or want atheism not to be ascosiated with. But I fail to see what this contonation is, and why it would be important.

It's similar to the discussion that's often seen about evolution. People argue over wether something can evolve out of it's species, but they forget that a species is a human construct. In another vein, people often see molecules as the ball-and-stick models we often see, forgetting that the atoms are spinning around all the time, and the electrons can't even be pinpointed at a single place but swarm around everywhere in a cloud of quantum indescision. It's somethimes a good idea to take a step back and tell ourselves that our definitions and models are just that, definitions and models. They try to give us handels to describe the world with, but these only work if you're using the correct model for the case. A classifications in species might be usefull for taxonomy and breeding purposes, buit when talking about genetics it becomes but a small part of the description, along with other things like genetic similarties and ancestral lines.
In this case I think it's time to take a step back and ask wheter this debate is realy about anything relevant.

Granted. They first have their souls removed. You can't kill a soulles being, now can you?

I wish for a Zu!

For a start, I'd stick with Apophysis, because it has a large comunity, it's powerfull and most of all it's free. Ultrafractall may have some tricks that Apophysis lacks, but it's not free, and Incendia is both much harder to get good results with, and has a smaller comunity. But feel free to experiment with other software ofcourse, since I don't know anything about other types of software out there...

As for your picture, it's a fine start, but the colours are bland. If you look above the preview window, you'll see a series of buttons. One of them looks like a square with a gradient in it, going from blue to orange. If you klick it, you'll get the gradient editor. From there I'd try picking a gradient with a large colour diference and start playing with it. That way your picture will get way more colour.

Another thing you might try, though I can't predict if it'll do any good, is to go to the gradient window, then klick on the rendering tab and set the gamma way down. This'll cause most lines to disapear and some to become more powerfull. That way you can get the aetheral, wispy effect you see in some of my fractals (Queen of Shadows and Collision use this technique, and I'm rendering another one right now that takes it to the extreme).

One last trick you may try is to klick the button with the 2 triangles. This'll bring up the transform editor. From here you can edit the shape. Now you'll likely want to keep this shape, so you shouldn't mess with the triangels themselves. Instead, klick on the button labeled FX, on the upper right hand side. Then in the list below that, set the value after "linear" to 0 and the one after julia to 1. This should cause your fractal to become symetrical and a bit more wing-like. You might need to rotate the fractal  though. You can do that by going to the gradient window, and klicking the camera tab, and then setting the rotation value.

Granted, but since slavery is illegal he won't do you a lot of good...

I wish for staple chese

*twitch, wibble*

I've done square-by-square procedurally generated landscapes/plants before, and they aren't any fun.  Mostly because A) they can't be changed, and B) they are always unaware of their neighbors, even neighbors three feet away, which means vast trees right next to each other, or rivers that come from nowhere and go nowhere.

If you actually want to use cellular automata, then you can't use locationally-seeded procedurally generated stuff, because data gets lost. over time.

You can fix B by having the automatoi relay their data to all squares in a certain area. You´re essentialy using the squares themselves as containers for the data instead of having the automatoi pull their data from their neighbors.

To illustrate: Take the game of life. Now instead of having the automatoi die when they have a certain amount of neighbors, have them die when the toxicity level of the square they're on is over a certain value. Now, each generation you first have all automatoi adjust the toxicity level of the squares around them by a value dependant on the distance, and then you do the normal pass.

This way you can store data like light intensity, humidity and toxicity in the map rather then on the automatoi, avoiding the problem of having mile-high trees grow next to eachother.