GPUFractal-1

[Bill Baxter]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Burton Radons wrote:
>>>>> http://members.shaw.ca/burton-radons/GPUFractal-1.7z (binary, 204KB)
>>>>> http://members.shaw.ca/burton-radons/GPUFractal-1-source.7z (source,
>>>>> 1,360KB)
>>>> My suggestions:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Put up a web page about it! Put the text in your announcement here
>>>> on the web page.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Use standard zip files, not 7z.
>>> winrar handles 7z, so if you can open rar you can open 7z
>> Lots of programs handle 7z. But a lot don't. If someone has to search
>> for, download, and install yet another zipper he isn't going to bother
>> with GPUFractal. There's a nearly infinite amount of downloads one can
>> get from the internet, and it's real easy to pass by anything that
>> offers even minor roadblocks to downloading.
>>
>> A friend of me told me long ago that he was successful because he was
>> "easy to do business with". He tried to make it as painless and easy as
>> possible for people to buy his products and services. Amazon does it
>> with their "one click" thing. Apple does it with itunes. Just something
>> to think about.
> 
> A flip side of this is that 7zs can be quite a bit smaller than Zips.
> Smaller means faster to download, and cheaper to get.\

I tried making a zip out of it.  It was a whopping 5K bigger (with 
compression=best).

> Incidentally, I've been working with a non-techie person (senior
> lecturer for Risk Management) on my honours project, and I used to send
> him Zip files until I noticed that all the archives he sent me were 7zs :P

GPUFractal is a Windows program.  Every copy of Windows which is recent 
enough to run GPUfractal has ZIP support built in.  It's not a big deal, 
but Walter's right.  For Windows programs, use zip unless you have a 
really good reason not too (like very targeted / motivated audience 
willing to jump through hoops for you, or a huge difference in file size).

Anyway cool program! (after I downloaded new drivers ;-).  I like the 
interactive dragging of Julia set seed points!

--bb