Roasting Sun Red Triangle

**UPDATE** Here is a test render of the final scene. Set to 100 Beats by Tomachi.

A 4.9 megapixel Monte Carlo rendering of a frame from my upcoming "Sierpinkski 4" fractal zoom, which has now been rendering for 14 days!

Roasting Sun Sierpinski Red Triangle 4.9 MP 2560 × 1920 MC

Sierpinski 3D Fractal Still

25 fps test render

FINISHED!! 6 weeks of rendering: 

Just a casual 20 megapixel render of an animation frame I'm rendering because it's awesome. This is a Sierpinski 3D fractal done in Mandelbulb3d running under Wine on Mac. 5120 x 3840 likely with no anti-alias set. While it's not a final-final render, it's higher res than the main animation will be. Here is the original Mandlebulb3D source file .m3a

Just a casual 20 megapixel render of an animation frame I'm rendering because it's awesome. This is a Sierpinski 3D fractal done in Mandelbulb3d running under Wine on Mac. 5120 x 3840

File under: Sierpinksi (spelling mistake)

Dear Google, please fix this bug in Calendar invites

I try to use my domain email always, but when someone invites tom@funk.co.nz - the only email I've ever had since 1998 - to a Google Calendar it always fails, even though it's an alias of the main Google account I've always had since forever.

Learn parallel programming and FPGA for $99

It's fairly amazing you can get these dev board now that have some awesome features, like the Parallela from Adapteva - made for people learning massively parallel programming, it even has an FPGA on it - a field programmable array of simple units (gates) that can be strung together using an interconnect, in this case about 28,000 of them!

CH6_Slides courtesy of Charles Roth

in other news I think packet loss can cause your kernel to re-transmit a lot of packets:

Mac os x kernel during heavy packet loss

Terms of your Vodafone Sky Agreement

Someone mentioned the terms so I checked them out - amazing how it seems to give Vodafone carte blanch to do meta data analysis of you and your household's use of products and services. Could this include opening up some data packets - using layer 4 deep packet inspection - so detect and log which website URLs are being visited? Perhaps... since they also say "from other sources and by other means". I suppose your internet connection could form part of the other means. For example use of BitTorrent or Youtube versus say Ted Talks and iTunes Store mite cause your "anonymous" record to be entered into an interest category marketing group. You also authorise them to telemarket to you and use your contacts details for such.  Finally it allows them to sell pruned versions of the meta data about you to third parties for them to contact you, even after your termination so long as it is legal whatever that means... I suspect the pruned, cleansed data is enriched using demographic analysing technology with access to internet use stats and Sky channel choice inputs.

You authorise us to collect information about you and/or your household (including information about the products and services you and/or your household use) from time to time from you and from other sources and by other means. You authorise us to use and/or disclose to third parties such information for the purposes of communicating with you and your household in relation to this contract, responding to any claims or complaints made by you or any member of your household, cooperating with any Government, regulatory or industry authority, marketing and promoting our and/or third party products and services to you and your household, market research, generating and providing statistical analysis and rating information, credit checking and control and debt collection (which includes logging overdue debts and/or liquidated damages you owe us with credit reference agencies). You acknowledge and agree that such information may be held by us both before and after termination of this contract but only for so long as we are legally entitled to use the information for the above purposes.

Source: http://www.vodafone.co.nz/legal/terms-conditions/sky-tv/ (Downloaded Sunday 24 April 2016)

Comparison of three Wifi stations via Speedtest

iStumbler

I tested each of my wifi points with Speedtest, made a big difference!

Fritz 5 Ghz "A"

protocol a, n

channel 116

width 40

frequency 5580

vendor Avm

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5185590133

Fritz 2.4 Ghz "N"

protocol b, g, n

channel 13

width 40

frequency 2472

band 2.4GHz ISM

vendor Avm

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5185579828

Siemens 2.4 Ghz "G"

protocol b, g

channel 6

width 20

frequency 2437

band 2.4GHz ISM

vendor Metavector

Test 5: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5185585750