To quote Neil Gaiman:  "the danger is not piracy, the danger is obscurity"... I put all my art under Creative Commons licensing;  I allow free personal use ( including derivative works) with attribution.  I even provide 2000 (ish) width images (one can print a pretty decent 8x10 from these) on my website for nearly all of my images and allow outside linking from sites like Myspace..  I have no doubt that this has helped my google ranking substantially.  My website is usually on the first page of google results.  Not to mention I have had a fair amount of blog coverage.

Am I making much money selling fractals?  no, but I make some, enough to pay for my equipment, and probably  a lot more than I'd have made if no one had heard of me.  Anyway, for me it's just a hobby; I have a normal job.

I got two messages from her but didn't install the program because the whole thing sounded fishy --  "hey I love your work and won't you download and run my fractal program"??

um no I don't think so....

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

I can't even understand why anyone would pay for cell phone wallpaper anyway but.....   FWIW I don't watermark any of my images, I only display 800x600(ish) and I don't think those are much use to anyone aside from looking at on the screen. 

copy the text and just paste it directly into a fractal window in UF.   To do the reverse: I used a text editor to edit the UPR file and copy/paste the text.

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

example {
fractal:
  title="example" width=640 height=480 layers=1
  credits="Jock Cooper;8/29/2006"
layer:
  caption="Background" opacity=100
mapping:
  center=0.205321180924/-0.860703124195 magn=8.0096413
formula:
  maxiter=100 filename="jock.ufm" entry="IFS-Barnsley+jockIII"
  p_bailout=1E3 p_mode=Alternate p_bseed=0/1 p_c=0 p_p1=-1.1/-0.1
  p_p2=-3.162500005/1.350000001 f_fn1=cotan f_fn2=cosh f_fn4=ident
  f_fn5=ident f_fn3=ident f_fn6=ident p_func_operation=+
  p_p3=0.59722304/0.753208 p_p4=1/0
inside:
  transfer=linear filename="Standard.ucl" entry="Default"
outside:
  transfer=linear filename="Standard.ucl" entry="Default"
gradient:
  smooth=yes rotation=29 index=29 color=0 index=151 color=16777215
  index=199 color=16777215 index=234 color=16777215
opacity:
  smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
}

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

Well worth downloading,  the deepest zoom is way cool.  Going where no one has gone before.

If I saw 'Remaining: 900 hours' I would start deleting some layers.  4000x3000 is 12 million pixels and 900 hours is 3.2 million seconds.  That's like 4 pixels per second. 

Your talking about a single image with a render time of 3 weeks?  what resolution was that?

Not to mention power use--one computer with a  dual core CPU vs. two computers with a weaker processor, I would expect the two computers to consume more power.   I don't have much faith in the Ultra Fractal network rendering code either.  Has anyone done actual benchmarks under controlled conditions?

OK I thought that's what you meant.   I'm running a 64 bit dual core now.  But I am using 32 bit Windows.   Dual core basically doubles the speed of any multithreaded app (eg UF, PS, and other programs we like to use).  I went from an Athlon 3100 (1 core, 1.8 ghz 256cache) to the 4200 (2 core, 2.2 ghz, 512 cache) and my render times are 2-3 times faster.   Of course I had to get a new motherboard.

What do you mean the "64's"? 

You could use some more RAM, another 512MB is only like $50.  Also have you tried Canasta, because that one is really fun too.

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com/files/anim/anim.html

What is your CPU speed and what resolutions/filters are you talking about?  I got a dual core AMD (4200) last winter and everything got twice as fast.  Of course still not fast enough, but better.

Has something changed? I don't see any images in the costest. Do we have to wait until it's over to see them?