Just to let you know this group was very active a few months ago and since is rather quiet with no new development releases. Most of your questions may have been answered before and will likely get only a few responses now with fewer people on-line. Suggest you search older message lists for answers....i.e. see the archives...see bottom of these emails for URL Doug > -----Original Message----- > From: chaoscope-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:chaoscope-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Kimball > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:40 PM > To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [chaoscope] new guy - James > > > Hi all, > > I just joined the mailing list because I stumbled onto a link for > Chaosope and its just the program I've wanted for so many years dating > back to the old Amiga computer days when I was learning 3D. Wow, I'm > having so much fun and seeing so many applications for it in my own > art. > > Some questions or feature requests if they can't be answered... > > 1. How can I make my own gradients? Documentation makes a note that > its compatible with some older fractal program... I don't have this > program. In the future could it make/save gradients similar to > photoshop? As an artist I would like to work with specific palettes. > > 2. Can it do depth shading? (the lines further back being darker) > > 3. Can it output an alpha channel? (It seems I can render a gas pass > (quite unlike pass gas), and use that as a way to cut an alpha but its > a PITA. > > 4. Is there any hope for animation? a. key frame the camera (or > object) to fly through/around/etc. b. change the attractor variables > over time. c. cycle the palette through the object (while also doing > animations a and b of course. :-) ) I was an interface designer for a > number of years (Play Inc) and might be able to offer some help. > > > These days I'm the surfacing and lighting guy at a 3D animation > company, and I do my own art and photography on the side. My use for > Chaoscope will be blending 3D and photography with these very cool 3D > swooshes and "volumes" of Chaoscope. > > I look forward to spending more time with this software and trying out > these ideas I'm brewing... I look forward to your responses too as > they will help me to manifest these ideas into reality. > > Hats off to the programmers for creating something so fun and useful. > Thank you. > > > > James > > eMail: JamesStudioGallery@xxxxxxxxx > Web: www.JamesStudioGallery.com > ====================================================== > The Chaoscope mailing-list > Archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope > Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org > ====================================================== > ====================================================== The Chaoscope mailing-list Archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org ======================================================