[Reposted from mx77 via loeppel]

[Reposted from loeppel]

First of all I would like PHP5 ZIP Support under MacOS X Snow Leopard. So there is an easy PECL Extension that could be installed with, but it wouldn’t work:

$ pecl install zip
[...]
php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
php_zip.c:602: error: 'pcre' undeclared (first use in this function)
[...]

Now i started to compile PHP myself, … *waiting*waiting*error*killing myself*waiting* … Okey it takes to long time. Currently i’ve found an really easy way to fix this problem.

First: Install MacPorts, it requires XCode.
Second: Compile PCRE with MacPorts

port install pcre

Third: Install the PECL ZIP extension via this special command :P

$ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" pecl install zip

Fifth: Add the extension to the php.ini file /etc/php.ini

extension=zip.so

Restart your apache and thats it ;)

Here is a nice deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set. The words "nice" and "deep" fall a bit short actually.
"Mathematical Porn" is a better description.
After watching this video things in my room started to bend and breathe!! I hope you enjoy the trip!!

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were "actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

You might like to know that this animation took me about two days to set up. My computer then rendered day and night non-stop for just over a month to produce the animation. The resulting twenty-eight anti-aliased 1280x720 AVI files (each just under 2GB) were each watermarked at full frames (uncompressed) Then I stitched them all together uncompressed. I also added the audio track at the same time. This was all done in Virtual dub. (except watermarking) The final watermarked Avi with audio is a whopping 46GB - Then I compressed it to 495mb so I could upload it onto vimeo. I think it still looks fairly crisp
With the compression settings adjusted to achieve the highest quality, the resulting file size was about 1.5GB and looks absolutely sweet!
(Once vimeo plus is here I may well upload it!)

Source Booooooom

http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/

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Ben

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/project/autoclass/autoclass-c/