- Mandelbrot Set Explorer
- Mandelbrot Fractal Screensaver
- Mandelbrot Fractal Generator
- Mandelbrot Set Zoom
I like it, it's a great little app, simple to use, and gets the best looking results of any fractal program I've tried on Mac so far, even the ones I paid for. My only suggestion would be to make it available to save a fractal at larger than your screen size so that you can print it out at high quality, that's all it really needs right now. With Ultra Fractal, you can choose from thousands of fractal types and coloring algorithms, zoom in as far as you want, use gradients to add color, and apply multiple layers to combine different fractals in one image. Ultra Fractal is very easy to use and yet more capable than any other fractal program.
News |
22 August 2015 - Fractint/Xfract/WinFract 20.04p14 released - seeftp/current.
14 June 2014 - Added a virtualenvironments directory with initial contribution of a Virtualboxvirtual machine appliance with FreeDOS and Fractint v 20.0contributed by David W Riccio.
Mirrors |
Tim Wegner maintains a mirror athttp://leaf.tswegner.net/fractint/
What is Fractint? |
Fractint is a freeware fractal generator created forIBMPC's and compatible computers to run under DOS and ported toLinux. This page is for developers who wish to keep up with thelatest source changes and users who would like to try the currentdeveloper's version.
Mandelbrot Set Explorer
Bert Tyler has supplied this about the origins of Fractint:
Sometime in the spring of 1988 Bert Tyler bought a brand-new IBMPS/2 386/16. As an experiment he downloaded and ran a simpleMandelbrot-display program for it - and watched in horror as it tookthe program two hours to generate half of the initial image. In thosedays a Floating Point math unit was an expensive option on 386-basedPCs, and Bert's PC didn't have one.
Bert recalled that Dave Warker, one of his coworkers at the time,had built a demo Mandelbrot-generation program for TI graphics cardhe was working with using integer math, so Bert tried that approach.In September of 1988 Bert uploaded the results (full source and'documentation' included) to Byte Magazine's online publicstorage area as a 20K FRACT386.ARC file. It was a simple program: toget it to generate a portion of the Mandelbrot set one had to enterthe coordinates of the section one wanted on the commandline. A monthlater, Bert released version 2.0 (with zoom and pan!). Two monthslater version 2.1 was released, this time to both Byte's online siteand Compuserve's. A month later, version 3.1 included Julia sets.Then in December Mike Kaufman sent Bert an update he'd made toFRACT386 that gave it mouse support. Bert decided to give Mike fullcredit for his accomplishment and released that new code as part ofversion 4.0 - and the concept of Fractint and the Stone Soup Groupwas born. Soon after Bert attracted more collaborators and they setup shop in the Compuserve GRAPHDEV forum.
The Fractint User Web Pages |
The latest offical release is available here: dosand linux. However, at thispoint the pace of development is so deliberate that the latestdevelopment patch is as stable (or maybe more stable, since knownbugs get fixed) than the 'official' release, so you mightjust as well get the developer versions below.
Mx 2314n baixar do drivers for mac. Two active fractint mailing lists can be found here:
FractintUsers and FractintDevelopers
Latest Developer Version Source Patches and Executable |
The latest developer version files can be obtained inthis directory. We have divided the packages into separate dosand linux subdirectories. These files include the current releaseversion, current source, and the current Xfractint source. We nolonger create diff files corresponding to official patches. You canalso access the code directly from the subversion repository athttp://fractint.net/fractsvn/.This URL has a rudimentary web interface; if you really want to seethe source, it is best to use a Subversion client (svn for Linux orTortoiseSVN for Windows) and download a working copy.
If all you want is the executable package of the developer'sversion, download the file fradev.zip.Changes in the main dos version since the last official release arelisted in whatsnew.txt.
You will find some experimental, pre-alpha code here. Currently this includes Jonathan Osuch's Linux/Allegro port.This is in source code form which requires a development environmentas well as a Red Hat RPM package.
If you are looking for some pre-builtLinux binaries of Xfractint, try ScottBoyd's Xfractint page.
We have started a virtualenvironments directory for virtual machines and bootable usbdrive images.
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