Janus Fractal v1.111 - Freeware fractal application

[ahkn...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I've written a simple fractal program as a hobby project, and I'm
releasing it as freeware. The program is called "Janus Fractal", and
it lets you create Iterated Function System fractals and manipulate
them interactively. It uses a texture feedback algorithm: each frame,
it renders the fractal to a bitmap image in memory, and then the next
frame it uses a copy of the previous frame as input for that one,
scaling it down, applying rotations and other transformations and so
on. It's all done with software rendering, no 3D hardware acceleration
for the time being.

There are 6 fractal types implemented: Julia fractals (these are not
IFS fractals, but you can render them with texture feedback, so I
threw them in), Tree fractals, Spirals, "n-around-1" fractals, L-
Systems and 3D IFS fractals.

You can load various pre-made fractals using "File->Quick Load
Fractal", then use a combo-box and slider bar to edit fractal
parameters, or drag blue "hotpoints" around to edit the fractal
interactively. The type of fractal is selected from the "Transform
(X)" menu and the various components of the fractal motif are selected
from "Generator (Y)". Rendering options (colouring, blur, HDR etc) are
in the Options menu. Help -> Show Keymappings shows keyboard
shortcuts.

There is an HTML manual that comes with it that you can pull up from
the Help menu (or open it from the Manual folder).

Here are some links to download it (for Windows only at the moment):

Janus Fractal v1.111 (.rar file): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SU2HM0QQ
(3.32 Mb)

Janus Fractal v1.111 (.zip file): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WX2NLNXV
(4.79 Mb)

This is the first release, at some point in the future I hope to add
more features like zooming, more flexible L-System specification and
so on.

Chris Hayton

[David Makin]

Cool program Chris ! Thanks.

bye
Dave

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On 8 Feb, 13:43, ahkna...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a simple fractal program as a hobby project, and I'm

> releasing it as freeware.........................
> Chris Hayton