In an attempt to visualize more of the Buddhabrot set in some sort of interactive fashion, I've rendered a very high resolution image. You can view the resulting image using the Google Maps API here, making it easy to view the entire image and move about the image.

I'm probably the only one that cares, but after 252 days, my latest fractal rendering of a Buddhabrot is done. This will probably be my last one for a while.

For a while now, Spells has been available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. Now I'm expanding the number of devices it'll run on with the availability of Spells for Android devices and Spells for Windows Phone 7 devices (link opens in Zune).

Both the Android and Windows Phone 7 versions are simpler than the iPhone version, but if there's interest in them I'll add features to the versions.

Enjoy!

Rather than annoy other developers too much though, I've decided to release the Rapi Utils source code to the world. It's not quality code, but if you need to make a small change, hopefully it'll be straight forward enough.

If you ever need proof that Microsoft goes to silly extremes for backwards compatibility in Windows, take a look at this YouTube video. It walks through installing MS-DOS 5.0, and upgrading to every major O/S from Microsoft all the way to Window 7. That the process worked is cute. That Windows 3.1 applications still happily ran and worked is amazing to me.

It's been a crazy several weeks for me. Right now I'm working at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, I'll hopefully be back home next week, but right now I can't predict the future.

My big question: This building has a giant LED screen pretending to be a wall in the lobby. From time to time the wall does creative things (people crawl on it, parts fall away, and so on) to reveal a little movie. I swear I've seen this "screen pretending to be a wall" gimmick somewhere else. Anyone know where that might be?

I've published a minor update to RapiTools. You can download the updated version from here. This update fixes a localization issue with RapiSync on some locales.

My very first iPhone/iPad application is live. It has the very clever title of Spells. It's a simple app for viewing Pathfinder spells on the iPad.

Granted, it's not the world's most useful application, but I do hope to add more features to it in the coming weeks. It was mostly a small app so I could learn about iOS development and Apple's App Store submission process.

What is the Dissenting Pebble?