Rudy Rucker
You don't want news. Want to waste time on gnarl. How about the 33 year old software package "James Gleick's Chaos: The Software," I wrote with Josh Gordon and John Walker at Autodesk. Free on Github, including manual. Runs on any platform inside free shell DOSBox. https://github.com/rudyrucker/chaos/
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Nov 14, 2024 at 9:18pmWeb
Show threadBrian EisleyNov 14, 2024
@rudytheelder I still love this program, even if I have trouble running it nowadays. I'd love if somebody could update it for modern graphics.
Show threadjoel bNov 14, 2024
@rudytheelder omg ! I read the book cover-to-cover after I dropped too much acid at a hotel party and everyone fell asleep early. Absolutely loved it!
Show threadBuilder BeaverNov 14, 2024
@rudytheelder Oh yeah, I remember it well. I inherited a copy as well as an 80-386 IBM PC when we lost my father, it was really nice to feel connected to some of his work in biomechanical modeling. Thank you for the book and helping to explain a complex subject to a young kid.
Show threadPeter 💙 StevensNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder
I drove a silly distance to get that when it came out! Still have it somewhere, but it's not so much fun as leaving , magnets I think it was, running over the weekend😀
Show threadJon SullivanNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder Neat! James is also on Mastodon, at @gleick
Show threadGeePawHillNov 15, 2024

@rudytheelder I didn't know you wrote that code! I played with every one of those apps, over and over again, and Gleick's text and your software led me in to a whole world of beautiful complexity that I had never even imagined.

I *still* find myself explaining to entirely disinterested but tolerant fellow drinkers about strange attractors.

It was, sincerely, a joyful life-changing event, reading the book and fussing with the app.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistNov 15, 2024

@rudytheelder

You must know @gleick is on here and very popular? But maybe some who follow you and who will see this post don't know so I'll mention it.

:)

Show threadMichael SumnerNov 15, 2024

@futurebird @rudytheelder @gleick

@gleick @gleick @gleick

Show threadKaoscNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder Loved your Ware series. Good to see you on here.
Show threadPsySalNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder As a teenager I had this book! I did not know there was The Software! Thank you :)
Show threadBarry RowlingsonNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder I shall try running that as well as fractint in a DOSbox later!
Show threadThomas tekst-tvNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder Thanks for reminding me of the feeling of zooming in and out of the infinite gnarl.
Show threadMR.CleymoxxNov 15, 2024
@rudytheelder WOW!... what is it..?
Show threadFilbiNov 16, 2024
@rudytheelder this looks like an incredibly radical SF novel
Show threadzendao42Nov 16, 2024
@rudytheelder @MishaVanMollusq
Have you seen this?
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Nov 16, 2024

@zendao42 @rudytheelder yes i follow Rudy.
And my interjection here

Elon Musk is an All Meat Bopper