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Old 03-01-2009, 09:53 PM   #136
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I admit the dragon thing doesn't interest me much, and I Adblocked it to marginally speed up page-loading (sorry for reducing the pageviews, and please don't fret about this - my subjective opinion is purely an "anchovies" thing, and not any kind of judgement).

I do like your idea, and actually like with them beginning at the beginning, in a primordial "fractal" state. I see merit in your brother's comment though - eventual recognition of familiar animal (vegetable?) form would be a goal I'd like to aim at. Snails, turtles, jellyfish, stars, sea cucumbers, et cetera seem like something to allude to and still retain the "fractal" nature of their form.

Interesting.
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Old 03-01-2009, 10:52 PM   #137
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I started playing this game again because I like the idea someone suggested about incest. I'm going to start lines of dragons that are all related to each other.

What can I say, I'm weird.
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Old 03-02-2009, 10:56 AM   #138
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No problem, Marc. I get too many views too fast for the dragons' tastes, anyway.

I see what my brother is getting at with the faces, but I think I'm aiming this game at an older audience. (Dragon Cave seems to be aimed at 12 year olds or thereabouts.) People who like to figure things out and get interesting, unpredictable results. I saw these as plant/fungus sort of organisms, that might evolve movement, rather than animals. A plant wouldn't have a face.

On the other hand, my coding skills aren't enough to manage something like this, so I'd have to get a programmer involved, which probably means finding some way to make money, like ads, which means trying to make it attractive enough to a wide audience to bring in some traffic. Which probably means trying to make the organisms "personable" or "cute." Sigh.
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Old 03-02-2009, 05:00 PM   #139
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Well, I'm rapidly losing interest in the game myself, but I just thought some of you might like to know that Xiao Wu Shi seems not to have held Qiu Qi Zi's fling with the valentine dragon against him, and they've just had an egg:
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Old 03-02-2009, 05:04 PM   #140
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Well, I'm rapidly losing interest in the game myself, but I just thought some of you might like to know that Xiao Wu Shi seems not to have held Qiu Qi Zi's fling with the valentine dragon against him, and they've just had an egg:
Which one was the Valentine dragon?
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Those dragons are such ho's!
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Old 03-02-2009, 10:59 PM   #142
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Which one was the Valentine dragon?
See this post for that particular bit of soap opera.

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Those dragons are such ho's!
Are not! (I don't think any of them have any money, or anything else to base a sex-worker economy on. The ones in the cave are described as having piles of gold, but mine don't seem to have any.)
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Old 03-03-2009, 02:19 AM   #143
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...The ones in the cave are described as having piles of gold
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I bet that's painful, but at least it's easy to diagnose.

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Old 03-03-2009, 10:28 AM   #144
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Yeah, I suppose it would be. Then again, I've never been convinced that those geese laying golden eggs had an easy time of it, either....

I ran the fractal pictures above past my daughter (aged 14). She didn't think they necessarily needed faces, but thought it would help if at least some of them looked more recognizably plant-like. That's easy to do with fractals, of course. So maybe I'll work on some different examples.

In this project that I'm NOT working on.
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Old 03-03-2009, 11:25 AM   #145
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Yeah, I suppose it would be. Then again, I've never been convinced that those geese laying golden eggs had an easy time of it, either....

I ran the fractal pictures above past my daughter (aged 14). She didn't think they necessarily needed faces, but thought it would help if at least some of them looked more recognizably plant-like. That's easy to do with fractals, of course. So maybe I'll work on some different examples.

In this project that I'm NOT working on.
right, THAT project.

i could see fractal ferns or desert plants (in french we say "plantes grasses" or "fat plants" because they have thick rubbery leaves for storing water) ; some of those things look like fractals already.

edit : like these : http://images.google.com/images?rlz=...num=5&ct=title

particularly this one :

or this one :

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I think these are called Sempervivums and Houseleeks in the UK.

If I remember, Salisbury regularly has a dragon that is made out of thousands of them, sort of like a shaped hanging basket crossed with a sculpture... Just to bring the subject back round in a circle.
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Old 03-03-2009, 01:24 PM   #147
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Yes, ferns and those kinds of cacti (as well as some others) are what I was thinking of for some basic plant shapes. Here's another that's fractal in nature:



Here's a cool page that overviews the basic cactus shapes:
http://cactiguide.com/habitsearch/

I see a lot of good shapes here that would be easy to generate with 3d fractals, and that could then cross to get interesting variants.
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Yes, ferns and those kinds of cacti (as well as some others) are what I was thinking of for some basic plant shapes. Here's another that's fractal in nature:



Here's a cool page that overviews the basic cactus shapes:
http://cactiguide.com/habitsearch/

I see a lot of good shapes here that would be easy to generate with 3d fractals, and that could then cross to get interesting variants.
what is that, ginger root ? very fractal. i like the fractal plants idea.
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They look a bit like two-headed teddy bears: very cute.
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They look a bit like two-headed teddy bears: very cute.
They do, don't they? They're actually a kind of cactus. (Dried, maybe?) The photo comes from Wikipedia.

Hm... ginger root... Yum!
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