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FractalNow provides users with tools to generate pictures of various types of fractals quickly and easily.
It is made of both a command line tool, FractalNow, and a graphical tool, QFractalNow.
The graphical tool, based on Qt library, allows users to explore fractals intuitively and generate pictures.
Both tools are entirely multi-threaded and implement advanced algorithms and heuristics that make computation very fast compared to most existing free fractal generators.
Features
- Intuitive graphical user-interface (QFractalNow) to explore fractal space easily
- A command-line tool (FractalNow) that can work on machines without a desktop, and could be used by scripts to produce animations
- Several formulas available (Mandelbrot, Julia, Multibrot, Mandelbar, Burning ship, Rudy, and more...)
- Various types of coloring available (Iteration counts, Average coloring methods)
- Multiple anti-aliasing methods (Gaussian blur, Oversampling, Adaptive (intelligent)) to produce high quality images
- Advanced algorithms and heuristics to speed up computation (Solid guessing, Adaptive anti-aliasing, Caching)
- Entirely multi-threaded to work even faster on multi-core processors
- Ability to save/load configuration and gradient files
- Support of arbitrary precision floating point numbers
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License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)Follow FractalNow
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Claims it's for Windows. It is not.Reply from FractalNowPosted 2023-01-29
It is: you can download the Windows installer of version 0.8.1 (fractalnow-0.8.1-win64.exe). (Version 0.8.2 is just minor updates, it should work on Windows but you have to build it yourself from the sources.) -
No file for starting the app. Systematically tried every file in the zip and nothing worked.Reply from FractalNowPosted 2023-01-29
If you are using Windows, download the installer file fractalnow-0.8.1-win64.exe . The .zip file only contains the sources to build the program for your platform (GNU/Linux, OSX or Windows). -
Thanks for a great program under a free open source license!
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Thank you.
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I have none of the math skills at present to deal with (Understand) anything but the elementary beginnings of the MSet and its variations on formulae. But I Aint dumb enough not to grab a good generator when I see it ;). THANK YOU THANK YOU