Talk:Ultra Fractal

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Say lol the ones who use this fractal software:
 * lol --Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia 23:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

zoom
Hi, where can I find info about : "allowing users to zoom to a magnification of 10^4000" ? --Adam majewski 07:39, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Gday Adam, I a a bit dubious about that statement myself.. I reckon that the whole point of using Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic is that there is no limit other than speed and memory resources. Though it sounds like there may be some limit, it is probably larger than 10^4000 (though I'd hate to see how slow things would get if you went that far (and what would be the point anyway?)
 * Here's a line from the AP article:
 * "Aside from the question of the total storage available, the variables used by the software to index the digit strings are themselves limited in size."
 * I reckon we should revise it to say something like 'practically no limit' or something like that, any thoughts? Danwills (talk) 23:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC).
 * "Practically no limit" is too wishy-washy, despite the nonsensical nature of "arbitrary precision" being limited to 10^4000. The fact is that "arbitrary precision" is a Thing, in the same way Turing machines are a Thing. No realizable computer has the ability to address infinite memory, and therefore we humans will never build a Turing complete computer. In the same way, arbitrary precision arithmetic is non-realizable oxymoron, but the name still carries connotations of a useful category of algorithms: namely the lands beyond every-day representations, like IEEE doubles, specifically the realms of numeric representations that are of non-fixed length, which this program is almost certainly using. Calling it "arbitrary precision" is probably a good idea, although it might not hurt to throw in a note that mentions the seeming contradiction. PerryTachett (talk) 05:40, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Notability
I have restored the notability template. The only independent source is this article from Computers & Graphics journal (or magazine) which is Elsevier, but I can't really find any other information about it. It's presumably reliable, but it's the only source, and the claim that it was the "...first publicly available fractal software package to include convenient layering methods..." doesn't really seem sufficient to clearly meet notability guidelines. Grayfell (talk) 00:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Sources: Now it has two references. Is that enough?
 * Notability: Fractal Software is a niche, but i doubt this software is not notable.
 * PS: The film dimensions-math.org and many more art was made with Ultra Fractal. --Alex42 (talk) 11:14, 17 January 2024 (UTC)