Remembered me the "The Fifth Element" movie where Bruce Willis was a taxi driver.
Very nice.

It's very interesting but has nothing to do with fractals or the math that makes them.

This should not be posted here, as far as I'm concerned this should be removed. ...still, this is not the site for advertising your app.

Category = Other Artforms ... O.K. but is this an artform? undecided ... is this a discussion about other artforms? ... maybe ... is it an unsolicited advertisement? imho yes.

@kronpano I hope you don't take my initial post personally, the fact that you are a known user here with a history of contribution makes it easy to strike-out my gut feeling and allow some logic to prevail. You did post it in Other Artforms, that seems fine, your post isn't really about other artforms (but who knows maybe it will start something), it's undeniably an ad for an app, that may not be fine with all users and I feel is contrary to the spirit of the Guidelines. However, the source is available for scrutiny and it seems to be a well behaved and well thought out app that has user appeal on some level.

This other user that posted this as their first post was easy too, as soon as I saw where their links went and where they were from and that they wanted users to download their java app onto their cel phones from a Russian marketing agency based in the Ukraine? No source no history no contributions and didn't respond to my pm, so they on probation and all links to offsite material have been removed. If I don't hear from them the account and post will eventually be removed.

The same with user DaveFash, the links on his posts to his website turned out to be an Asian gambling site... but they didn't start that way, when I initially checked them they seemed fine, links to a very simple page that appeared to be about him and his stuff.

In the end, your post advertising your app is tolerable by virtue of the reasoning (1st paragraph) and 2 examples above, but if another user flags this topic we may have to revisit the issue.

Posting this here in the spirit of transparency.

...back to discussion...

So it's basically a projection viewer, either inside the cube, equirectangular or cube(skybox), or outside, standard 3D object view. FF user claude suggests (for FragM) using a Riemann sphere projection for exploring 2D fractals in 360 degree view, I thought of using GL cube sampler to receive the output of the Riemann sphere projection as a texture, the idea being get the built in hardware functions to do some of the work, but my math isn't good enough to pull that off.

Your app is good at, equirectangular or cube(skybox)?, it might be a good test bed to do a little hacking with Riemann sphere projection mapping of flat 2D fractal calculations.

Cheers

yes, Riemann is more complex. (beyond me)

OpenEXR comes with a suite of tools (included with FragM), one is for cubemap to equirectangular and vice versa so have code for that sort of stuff, was just thinking of the visual interaction via your app instead of using cmdline stuff for some experimenting. Using Riemann sphere the images from a 2D render turn into an equirectangular map that can be viewed as a 360 video rather than the same old same old zoom in, I can only watch those for about 3 seconds before getting bored, the 360 versions are really cool though.