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Q22:

Where can I obtain software packages to generate fractals?

A22:

* Amiga

* Java

* Macintosh

* MS-DOS

* MS-Windows

* SunView

* UNIX

* X-Windows

* Software to calculate fractal dimension

For Amiga:

(all entries marked "ff###" are directories where the inividual archives of

the Fred Fish Disk set available at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/ and

other sites)

General Mandelbrot generators with many features: Mandelbrot (ff030),

Mandel (ff218), Mandelbrot (ff239), TurboMandel (ff302), MandelBltiz (ff387),

SMan (ff447), MandelMountains (ff383, in 3-D), MandelPAUG (ff452, MandFXP

movies), MandAnim (ff461, anims), ApfelKiste (ff566, very fast), MandelSquare

(ff588, anims)

Mandelbrot and Julia sets generators: MandelVroom (ff215), Fractals (ff371,

also Newton-R and other sets)

With different algorithmic approaches (shown): FastGro (ff188, DLA),

IceFrac (ff303, DLA), DEM (ff303, DEM), CPM (ff303, CPM in 3-D), FractalLab

(ff391, any equation)

Iterated Function System generators (make ferns, etc): FracGen (ff188, uses

"seeds"), FCS (ff465), IFSgen (ff554), IFSLab (ff696, "Collage Theorem")

Unique fractal types: Cloud (ff216, cloud surfaces), Fractal (ff052,

terrain), IMandelVroom (strange attractor contours?), Landscape (ff554,

scenery), Scenery (ff155, scenery), Plasma (ff573, plasma clouds)

Fractal generators: PolyFractals (ff015), FFEX (ff549)

Lyapunov fractals

http://www.itsnet.com/~bug/fractals/Lyapunovia.html

XoaS, by Jan Hubicka, fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer.

256 workbench displays only.

http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

Commercial packages: Fractal Pro 5.0, Scenery Animator 2.0, Vista

Professional, Fractuality (reviewed in April '93 Amiga User International).

MathVISION 2.4. Generates Julia, Mandelbrot, and others. Includes software for

image processing, complex arithmetic, data display, general equation

evaluation. Available for $223 from Seven Seas Software, Box 1451, Port

Townsend WA 98368.

Java applets

Chaos!

http://www.vt.edu:10021/B/bwn/Chaos.html

Fractal Lab

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~storyh/fractal/frac.ht ml

The Mandelbrot Set

http://www.mindspring.com/~chroma/m andelbrot.html

The Mandelbrot set (Paton J. Lewis)

http://numinous.com/_private/people/pjl/graphics/mandelbrot/mandelbrot.html

Mark's Java Julia Set Generator

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/mcclure/java/Julia/

Fractals by Sun Microsystems

http://java.sun.com/java.sun.com/applets/applets/Fractal/example1.html

The Mandelbrot set

http://www.franceway.com/java/fractale /mandel_b.htm

Mandelbrot Java Applet

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/m kgray/java/Mandel.html

Ken Shirriff Java language pages

http://www.sunlabs.com/~shirriff/java/

example of the plasma method of fractal terrain by Carl Burke,

<cburke@mitre.org>

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6902/t_sd_app.html

Mandelbrot generator in Javascript by Frode Gill.

http://www.krs.hia.no/~fgill/javascript/mandscr.htm

Fracula Java Applet. A java applet to glide into the Mandelbrot set (best

with Pentium and MSIE 3.0). Vince Ruddy <vruddy1@san.rr.com>

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/5788/index.html

Chaos and Fractals. Many java applets by Stephen Oswin

<stephen.oswin@ukmail.org>

www.ukmail.org/~oswin/

IFS Fractals using javascript (Richard L. Bowman <rbowman@bridgewater.edu>)

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~rbowman/FracMain.html

For Macs:

For PowerMacs

(and PowerPC-based Macintosh compatible computers)

FracPPC - v1.1

* Fractal generator for PowerMacs only, by Dennis C. De Mars

* Generates the Mandelbrot set and associated Julia sets, allows the user

to edit the color map, 24-bit colour

+ http://members.aol.com/ddemars/fracppc.html

MandelBrowser 2.0

* by the author of Mandella, 24-bit colour +

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/mandelbrowser2.0.sit.hqx

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For 68K Macs

Mandella 8.7

* generation of many different types of fractals, allow editing of the

color map, and other display & calculation options. Some features not

available on PowerMacs.

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/mandella8.7.cpt.hqx

Mandelzot 4.0.1

* generation of many different types of fractals, allow editing of the

color map, and other display & calculation options. Some features not

available on PowerMacs.

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/mandelzot4.01.cpt.hqx

SuperMandelZoom 1.0.6

* useful to those rare individuals who are still using a Mac Plus/SE

class machine

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/supermandelzoom1.06.cpt.hqx

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Miscellaneous programs

* Australian mirror of Info-Mac archive, fractals sections

+ ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/mac/info-mac/

* FDC - Fractal Dimension Calculator

+ http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/fractals/fracdim.html

* Lsystem, 3D-L-System, IFS, FracHill

+ http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/fractals/

* Color Fractal Generator 2.12

+ ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/colorfractalgen2.12.sit.hqx

* MandelNet (uses several Macs on an AppleTalk network to calculate the

Mandebrot set!) +

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/mandelnet1.2.sit.hqx

* Julia's Nightmare - original and cool program, as you drag the mouse

about the complex plane, the corresponding Julia set is generated in real

time!

+ ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/juliasnightmare.sit.hqx

* Lyapunov 1.0.1

+ ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/lyapunov1.01.cpt.hqx

* Fract 1.0 - A fractal-drawing program that uses the IFS algorithm.

Change parameters to get different self-similar patterns.

+ ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/graphics/fractal/fract1.0.cpt.hqx

* XoaS 2.1 - fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer

+ http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

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Commerical

There are also commercial programs: IFS Explorer and Fractal Clip Art

(published by Koyn Software (314) 878-9125), Kai's Fractal Explorer (part of

the Kai's Power Tools package)

For MSDOS:

DEEPZOOM: a high-precision Mandelbrot Set program for displaying highly

zoomed fractals

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/depzm13.zip

Fractal WitchCraft: a very fast fractal design program

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/demo/fw1-08.zip

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/garbo/garbo_pc/show/fw1-08.zip

CAL: generates more than 15 types of fractals including Lyapunov, IFS,

user-defined, logistic, and Quaternion Julia

http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/frcal040.zip

Fractal Discovery Laboratory: designed for use in a science museum or

school setting. The Lab has five sections: Art Gallery, Microscope, Movies,

Tools, and Library Sampler available from Compuserve GRAPHDEV Lib 4 in

DISCOV.ZIP, or send high-density disk and self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

Earl F. Glynn, 10808 West 105th Street, Overland Park, Kansas 66214-3057.

WL-Plot 2.59 : plots functions including bifurcations and recursive

relations

ftp://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/graphing/wlplt/wlplt259.zip

From http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/

forb01a.zip: Displays orbits of Mandelbrot Set mapping. C/E/VGA

fract3.zip: Mandelbrot/Julia set 2D/3D EGA/VGA Fractal Gen

fractfly.zip: Create Fractal flythroughs with FRACTINT

fdesi313.zip: Program to visually design IFS fractals

frain195.zip: FRACTINT v19.5 EGA/VGA/XGA fractal generator

frasr195.zip: C & ASM src for FRACTINT v19.5

frcal040.zip: Fractal drawing program: 15 formulae available

vlotkatc uses VESA 640x480x16 Million colour mode to generate

Volterra-Lotka images.

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/vlotkatc.zip

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/vlotkatc.doc

Fast FPU Fractal Fun 2.0 (FFFF2.0) is the first Mandelbrot Set generator

working in hicolor gfx modes thus using up to 32768 different colors on screen

by Daniele Paccaloni requires 386DX+ and VESA support

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/IBMPC/FFFF20.ZIP

3DFract generates 3-D fractals including Sierpinski cheese and 3-D

snowflake

http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/users/bhugh/home.html

FracTrue 2.10 - Hi/TrueColor Generator including a formular parser. 286+

VGA by Bernd Hemmerling

LyapTrue 2.10 Lyapunov generator

ChaosTrue 2.00 - 18 types

Atractor 1.00 256 colour

http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~hemmerli/fractal.html

HOP based on the HOPALONG fractal type. Math coprocessor (386DX and above)

and SuperVGA required. shareware ($30) Places to download HOPZIP.EXE from:

Compuserve GRAPHDEV forum, lib 4

The Well under ibmpc/graphics

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters/hop.htm

ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/msdos/graphics/

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/

ZsManJul 1.0 (requires 386DX+) by Zsolt Zsoldos

http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/zsolt/zsmanjul.html

FractMovie 1.62 a real-time 2D/3D IFS fractal movie renderer (requires

486DX+) with GIF save

http://www2.ntu.ac.sg:8000/~eyqchen/fractmovie/fractmovie.html

FracZoom by Niels Ulrik Reinwald 386DX+

http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc23578/index.html

RMandel 1.2 80-bit floating point Mandelbrot Set animation generator by

Marvin R. Lipford

ftp://fractal.mta.ca/pub/cnam/anim/FRACSOFT/rmandel.zip

M24, the new version of TruMand by Mike Freeman 486DX+ True-colour

Mandelbrot Set generator

http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/~mfreeman/mand.html

FAE - Fractal Animation Engine shareware by Brian Towles

http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/ibmpc/FAE210B.ZIP

XaoS 2.2 fast portable realtime interactive fractal zoomer/morpher for

MS-DOS (and others) by Jan Hubicka <hubicka@limax.paru.cas.cz> 11 fractal

formulas, "Autopilot", solid guessing, zoom up to 64051194700380384 times

http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

Ultra Fractal. A DOS program with graphic interface, 256 colors or

truecolor. Very fast, many formulas. Shareware (Frederik Slijkerman

<slijkerman@compuserve.com>)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/slijkerman/

For MS-Windows:

dy-syst: Explores Newton's method, Mandelbrot and Julia sets

ftp://cssun.mathcs.emory.edu/pub/riddle/

bmand 1.1 shareware by Christopher Bare Mandelbrot program

http://www.gi.net/MSDOS_A/PM-1995/95-01/95-01-24/0012.html

Quaternion-generator generates Julia-set Quaternions by Frode Gill

http://www.krs.hia.no/~fgill/fractal.html

A Fractal Experience 32 for Windows 95/NT by David Wright

<wgwright@mnsinc.com>

http://www.mnsinc.com/wgwright/fracexp/

Iterate 32 for Windows 95/NT written in VisualBasic. Generates IFS,

includes 10 built-in attractors, plots via chaos algorithm or MRCM (multiple

reduction copy machine), includes MS-Word document about IFS and fractal

compression in easy to understand terms. Freeware by Jeff Colvin

<kd4syw@usit.net>

http://hamnetcenter.com/jeffc/fractal.html

IFS Explorer for Windows 95/NT, a companion to Iterate 32, allows users to

explore IFS by changing the IFS parameters. Requires 800x600 screen. Freeware

by Jeff Colvin <kd4syw@usit.net>

http://hamnetcenter.com/jeffc/fractal.html

DFRAC 1.4 by John Ratcliff a Windows 95 DirectDraw Mandelbrot explorer with

movie feature. Requires DirectDraw, FPU, and monitor/graphics card capable of

800x600 graphic mode. Freeware.

http://www.inlink.com/~jratclif/john.htm

QS W95 Fractals generates several fractals types in 24-bit colour includind

Volterra-Lotka, enhanced sine, "Escher-like tiling" of Julia Set, magnetism

formulae, and "self-squared dragons". Supports FractInt MAP files, saves

24-bit Targa or 8-bit GIF, several colour options. Freeware by Michael Sargent

<msargent@zoo.uvm.edu>.

http://www.uvm.edu/~msargent/

Fractal eXtreme for 32-bit Windows 1.01. A fast interactive fractal

explorer of Mandelbrot, Julia Set, and Mandelbrot to various powers, Newton,

"Hidden Mandelbrot", and Auto Quadratic. Movies, curve-based palette editor,

deep zoom (>2000 digits percision for some types), Auto-Explore. Shareware,

with ability to register online, by Cygnus Software.

http://www.cygnus-software.com/

Iterations and Flarium24 2 original programs : Iterations is 256 colors ;

Flarium24 is truecolor. For W95 or NT. Both are freeware by Stephen C.

Ferguson (<itriazon@gte.net>)

http://home1.gte.net/itriazon/

JuliaSaver : a W95 screen saver that does real-time fractals, by Damien M.

Jones (<dmj@emi.net>)

http://www.emi.net/~dmj/juliasaver/

Mndlzoom W95 or Nt program which iterate the Mandelbrot set within the

coprocessor stack : very fast, 19-digits significance (Philip A. Seeger

<PASeeger@aol.com>)

http://members.aol.com/paseeger/

Frang : a real-time zooming Mandelbrot set generator. Needs DirectX (can be

downloaded from the same URL or from Microsoft). Shareware (Michael Baldwin

<baldwin@servtech.com>)

http://www.servtech.com/public/baldwin/frang/frang.html

Fractal Orbits; A nice implementation of Bubble, Ring, Stalk methods by

Phil Pickard <plptrigon@enterprise.net >. Very easy to use. W95, NT.

ftp://ftp-hs.iuta.u-bordeaux.fr/fractorb/

Zplot. A very comprehensive program which gathers several powerful methods

(original or found in other programs). 16 and 32 bits versions. You can

download for trials version 3.26 (latest one is 3.29). A true color version is

under development. Shareware by Terry W. Gintz <twgg@ix.netcom.com>.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5601/gallery.htm

For SunView:

Mandtool: generates Mandelbrot Set

http://fractal.mta.ca/spanky/programs/mandtool/m_tar.z

ftp://spanky.triumf.ca/fractals/programs/mandtool/M_TAR.Z

For Unix/C:

lsys: L-systems as PostScript (in C++)

ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/lsys.tar.gz

lyapunov: PGM Lyapunov exponent images

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume23/lyapunov/

SPD: fractal mountain, tree, recursive tetrahedron

ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/spd/

Fractal Studio: Mandelbrot set; handles distributed computing

ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/peter/fractal-studio

fanal: analysis of fractal dimension for Linux by J�rgen Dollinger

ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/linux/local/math/fanal-01b.tar.gz

XoaS, by Jan Hubicka, fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer.

supports X11 (8,15,16,24,31-bit colour, StaticGray, StaticColor), Curses,

Linux/SVGAlib

http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

For X windows :

xmntns xlmntn: fractal mountains

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.x/volume8/xmntns

xfroot: fractal root window

X11 distribution

xmartin: Martin hopalong root window

X11 distribution

xmandel: Mandelbrot/Julia sets

X11 distribution

lyap: Lyapunov exponent images

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.x/volume17/lyapunov-xlib

spider: Uses Thurston's algorithm, Kobe algorithm, external angles

http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/Complex/spider.tar.Z

xfractal_explorer: fractal drawing program

ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xfractal_explorer-v1.0.tar.gz

Xmountains: A fractal landscape generator

ftp://ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk/pub/personal/spb/xmountains

xfract: Mandelbrot with a color-cycling feature

ftp://charm.il.ft.hse.nl/pub/X11/src/xfract.tar.gz

xmfract v1.4: Needs Motif 1.2+, based on FractInt

ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/graphics/xmfract_1.4.tar.gz

Fast Julia Set and Mandelbrot for X-Windows by Zsolt Zsoldos

http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/zsolt/mandel.html

XaoS realtime fractal zoomer for X11 or SVGAlibs by Jan Hubicka

<hubicka@limax.paru.cas.cz>

http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/

Xmfract

http://www.realtime.net/~amadeus/xmfract/

AlmondBread-0.2. Fast algorithm ; simultaneous orbit iteration ;

Fractint-compatible GIF and MAP files ; Tcl/Tk user interface (Michael R.

Ganss <rms@cs.tu-berlin.de>)

http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~rms/AlmondBread/

Distributed X systems:

MandelSpawn: Mandelbrot/Julia on a network

ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/mandelspawn-0.07.tar.Z

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/R5contrib/mandelspawn-0.07.tar.Z

gnumandel: Mandelbrot on a network

ftp://ftp.elte.hu/pub/software/unix/gnu/gnumandel.tar.Z

Software for computing fractal dimension:

Fractal Dimension Calculator is a Macintosh program which uses the

box-counting method to compute the fractal dimension of planar graphical

objects.

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/math/software/mac/fractals/FDC/

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/architec/Fractals/FDC2D.sea.hqx

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/architec/Fractals/FDC3D.sea.hqx

FD3: estimates capacity, information, and correlation dimension from a list

of points. It computes log cell sizes, counts, log counts, log of Shannon

statistics based on counts, log of correlations based on counts, two-point

estimates of the dimensions at all scales examined, and over-all least-square

estimates of the dimensions.

ftp://inls.ucsd.edu/pub/cal-state-stan

ftp://inls.ucsd.edu/pub/inls-ucsd

for an enhanced Grassberger-Procaccia algorithm for correlation dimension.

A MS-DOS version of FP3 is available by request to

gentry@altair.csustan.edu.