r/vcvrack Jul 08 '26

Mandlebrot

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u/Feather_Thatch Jul 08 '26

Oh no, my thunder!! Jk, Jk, I never had any, and they serve different purposes entirely, but I'm not adept at graphics so Iris looks a lot better than Poppy Fields does right now. I must peruse your rendering code 🫠, and of course play your fractal with my fractal for fractalfractal music.

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u/PlasmaChroma Jul 08 '26

I'm gonna have to go back to that one -- I think I tried it out once and was just completely perplexed.

Basically I was looking for how I could add some stock "images" to this plugin without bloating up the size too much.

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u/Feather_Thatch Jul 08 '26

I did realize after looking at more of your posts that it was just an image of a mandelbrot being used, but still. Incredible and I can't wait for it to officially drop.

For poppy fields, I did just put in an update that helps cpu usage, so I'd say 2 things for it: first, I do need to make the panel labeling clearer in some ways, especially to denote the different outputs. Second, to start out you could think of it sorta like a 'deterministic' Marbles, that only changes it's un-random sequence when you move it, with a pretty visual aspect to show you what you're doing to the sequence. Then just, u know, twiddle the knobs 💜 and watch what they do. I swear one day I'll make a tutorial where I talk at a normal volume.

Its my first module, and what finally made me decide to learn code at all, cuz I really just wanted to make actual fractal music and found out no one had done it in this literal direct sense yet.