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Fractal eXtreme

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I've been using Fractal eXtreme of late, creating many zoomed images of Mandelbrot variants.  These include Perpendicular Mandelbrot (top right),  Burning Ship, Perpendicular Burning Ship,  Buffalo and Perpendicular Buffalo (bottom right) . The program was last updated in January 2016  but is amazingly fast and has antialiasing options when generating/previewing fractal zooms.   The preset palettes in Fractal eXtreme are mainly made up of primary colours (garish) which I didn't particularly like so I opted for greyscale.  I later modified it to produce a dark sepia-like duotone. Mandelbrot  (we all know and love). Perpendicular Mandelbrot Burning Ship Perpendicular Burning ship Buffalo Perpendicular Buffalo More Perpendicular Mandelbrot and Perpendicular Burning Ship images (in slideshow format) on my website: https://the-orangery.weebly.com/perpendicular-mandelbrot.html Once on the site, hovering over an image with the mouse (or touching an image...
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Using cellular automata for retro maps

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There are several cellular automata map examples online but very few resemble mine.  I use fewer generations,  initial seeds commonly of between  1 - 5% and   a variety of alternative life rules that I have experimented with over the years. Programs used: MCell http://www.mirekw.com/ca/ Mirek Wojtowicz (Mirosław Wójtowicz) Irfanview (for batch conversion of files) https://www.irfanview.com/ Irfan Skiljan Jasc Paintshop Pro 7 (for flood fill and borders) Image to Ascii Converter https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Image-Convertors/Bitmap-to-Ascii-converter.shtml Peter Bone The larger images of 1280x960 pixels (each pixel representing a 5x5 or 8x8 user defined graphic block) are scaled down versions of entire maps.  Those below them are a 3x zoom section to show the scale.  I purposely chose a grid size of 160x96 pixels as games (known as homebrews) are still being produced for the Mattel Intellivision games console (now owned by Atari). Leg...
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