Talk:Sterling (program)

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Pre-emptive defence

Since I can see this piece being flagged for deletion, here is a pre-emptive justification. There are already articles on Fractint, Apophysis and UltraFractal. None of those articles cites any references. There is as much justification to have an article on Sterling as on these other programs. Unlike UltraFractal, Sterling2 is freeware. Published books have barely caught up with Fractint, let alone more modern fractal generators. Hence it is very difficult to find reputable references to a program such as Sterling. The idea of citations is to prevent challenges to the content of an article. But what are people going to challenge in this article, that Sterling wasn't written by Ferguson, or that there are 30, not 50 formulas? Soler97 (talk) 20:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, the only fractal generator that is mentioned in printed publications is fractint, an obsolete program. Hence I propose the following criterion for notability for fractal generators. If we enter the string "fractal program" in Google and a program is mentioned on one of the items on the first page of hits then it is "notable".

Name

Is the name of this program derived from Mandlebrot being the Sterling Professor in 1999? - Shiftchange (talk) 06:04, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Julia

It draws in Julia mode

needs to be Wikified to clarify the meaning of "Julia". Perhaps Julia (programming language)??? —DIV (1.145.91.247 (talk) 05:55, 4 November 2022 (UTC))[reply]
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Source Code Unavailable

The links to the gitlab project are broken and the source code doesn't appear to be anywhere on the internet, so I'm not sure how this program could be considered open source, unless I just haven't found the new location of the source code and the links on this page are stale. Legalize (talk) 15:59, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]