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[Nobody/Anonymous]

Welcome to Open Discussion

[m.hilpert]

Hi folks!

It's been some days now after this new project was created. Of course, a first alpha version of endlos is already running on my dual core (AMD 64 X2) computer and it looks quite good. ;-)

Due to family affairs, I had no time so far to build up a first release to upload here. But I hope to give you a nice platform independent Java JAR within the next weeks. Features built in so far:

- only Mandelbrot, so far
- any resolution possible (scrollable)
- any number of threads possible
- direct rendering of a specific position (coordinates)
- mouse clicks to zoom in/out and mouse wheel to increase/decrease iterations
- of course, threaded handling - you don't have to wait to zoom until the image is finished

The next features I plan to integrate are:

- saving of images
- desktop with multiple fractal windows
- more fractal types - especially 3D :-}
- auto iterations
- optimized calculation (so far: brut force, with simple optimizations)
- generated music ... (anybody remembers 'MindWalker' from Amiga?)
- and my long term aim: creating the fastest platform independent fractal application on earth! :-)

I'm looking forward to quad core CPUs comming next year to the market ... 8-D

Dentaku

Java is so cool: write on a single core Windows computer and run the compiled bytecode also on a 64 bit dual core Linux system - several times faster! :*)

[m.hilpert]

Yup, folks: I just uploaded the first beta release for all you multi-core guys! Just to give you a first idea ... ;-}