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Creating Prints of Large Fractals?
jkoshy asks: "I would like to make very large (10'x10') color fractal images using A4 size printouts that I would be assembling to make up the final picture. Most fractal generation programs that I have seen are designed for on-screen fractal viewing. Are there any programs (or scripts driving fractal generation programs) that can generate large printouts of fractal images?" I can't resist a good fractal poster and would love to be able to produce one on my own, as well. In addition to the poster's question, how difficult is it to get posters made from fractal images? What resolutions are typically required?
It would take some work, but you could use the old Fractint program's "disk video" mode to generate a series of 32767x32767 image files in a tiled layout, then write a simple app to chain them together and print them out.
Many moons ago in the college daze, my friends all jointly (pun intended) rented a big farm house which featured a giant white garage wall at the end of the long driveway. We'd planned to do use Fractint to create a series of sort of "paint-by-numbers" templates to cover this huge wall.
Never happened. Too much reggae, beer, sun, etc.
But still -- check out Fractint. They never got beyond version 20.x under DOS, but it's still one of the more flexible programs available for scripted automation... search for it in Google, there are a couple of dedicated sites out there.
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I can't help you on the fractal side of things, but once you have the large fractal image, there are many services that can print it, such as0 3
http://www.BigNose.com/
See the DPreview printing forum for more information
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=10