MrPsiquedelico opened this issue on Jul 15, 2005 ยท 39 posts
sharkrey posted Sat, 16 July 2005 at 5:32 PM
OK...Here's my puny ideas. If I take a starter flame then open the Mutation window and click on one of the mutations...then that flame has just begun the journey to becoming my own. If I add 2 scripts, go twelve mutations deep, then apply 4 filters in post...that image is mine. Make sense? I mean...where do you draw the line. Someone uses your starter flame to make an image, but they also used a mouse, a monitor, a computer, a program, electricity...in a house, in a country, on a planet... Where do you begin with the credits??? When you made the starter flames, did you thank Mark Townsend? Bill Gates? God? Here's the thing. When you made the starter flames available to the public, the idea was, "Well, now that I have some experience with the program, I'm going to help other people." And you felt good about it, and rightly so. You should at this point be clapping and cheering for the people that have taken your generosity and done good things with it. Not crying because you aren't getting whatever recognition you feel you deserve. None of us truly start from scratch.... Am I wrong? (p.s. I noticed that you forgot to give credit for the coloring algorithm that you used on your latest image...)