Current Version: 0.61 (27.4.2003)

Overview

The goal of Mandel Ultimativ (kmandel) is the development of an easy to use and powerful fractal generator. Furthermore I want implement some special functions (animation, journey maker or special fractal types).

Features

Overview

31 different fractal types
5 convergency testfunctions
6 each postprocessing functions for inside and outside points
type depend parameterdialog (for most types)
4 zoommodi
optimized calculation
1/8/32 bit colordeeps (2,256 colors, truecolor)
logarithmic colormapping
parameteranimation
zoomanimation
history
zoomhistory
journey maker
color editor

Fractaltypes

Screenschot with a collection of 12 types.

Barnsley A	Mandel	Galaxy	Julia
Lambda-Julia	Pocken	1/Mandel	Lyapunov
Genetic	Julia^n (4)	Gingerbreadman	Mandelbrot

Currenty MU knows 31 different types (21 "field", 8 orbit and two "image at once" types.

Mandelbrot
Julia-set
Lambda-Mandel
Lambda-Julia
1/Mandel
Gingerbreadmam (o)
Galaxy
Hop (o)
Chip (o)
Mandel^n)
Julia^n
Triple
Henon (o)
Barnsley A,B,C (Mandel und Julia-Typen)
Orbit3 (o)
Wankel
Quadrat (o)
Lyapunov
Star (o)
Lorenz (o)
Genetic
Pheonix
Pocken
lonely island (i)
Mand4
Mand4b (variant of Mand4)
Sediment (i)
Newton
Complex Newton

(0) = Orbit-Type (i) = Image at Once

Postprocessing

During the calculation it is possible to modify some parameter, which affect the coloring of the pixel. So it is possible to display some structures in the normally black mandelbrot area.

5 variants for the convergency test (this determinines the bailout of the calculation)
6 functions for inside points
6 functions for outside points

Colormap editor

Mandel Ultimativ uses an own colormap (only avaible in 256 colormode). This colormaps can be saved (as a own file or in the parameterfile), reloaded, and rotated and a color flood(?) is possible.

Screenshots


kmandel main window with a calculated image	Color editor

Parameteranimation	General parameter dialog

Download

Current version : 0.61 (27.4.2003)
Download : kmandel-0.61.tar.gz

Since version 0.4? kspline is required !

Installation

Requirements

Before installing the program make sure that the following components are installed:

KDE 3.0x, KDE 3.1 not tested
qt 3 or newer

Installation

To install the program, make the following steps:

Decompressing of the archieves	tar xvzf kmandel-0.61.tar.gz
Change to the installation directory	cd kmandel-0.61
Configuration	./configure
Start compile	make
Install the binaries	make install (as root)

Animation support

Mandel Ultimativ supports the generation of animations. There are parameter and zoom animations.

Parameteranimation

During the parameter animation one or more parameter of the fractal are changed, the coordinates of the fractal are constant. The changing of the parameters make a effect like a morphing.
To create the animation first the course? of the parameters is defined as .spline curves. Then additional parameters like frame count or filenames are set up. Then the animation is calculated.

Zoomanimation

The zoom animation simplifies the ceation of a zoom animation. Then destination of the zoom is defined, then a number of images is calculated, each zoomed by a little factor and so shifted, thas the last image is in the center of the destination point.

The animations make a series of single images. They must be converted to the final animation by a thiry party program.

2 Examples

	An example for a parameter animation. The mandel^n type is used. The exponent n runs from 2 to 4 by a logarithmic function.
	Example for a zoom animation. It zooms to the border area of the mandelbrot set.

Journey

Another special feature is the journey maker. It creates HTML pages from a series of parameter files (.par). Each page contains the image in preview size (adjustable). Images below the current image are maked with rectangles. All pages are linked mutually(?). So it is possible to walk thru the entire journey. Optionally a hires image of the fractal can be included.

Here is a big example

History

1.8.1997	Beginn der Programmierung
1.9.1997	Version 0.1
24.9.1997	Version 0.2a
3.10.1997	Version 0.2b
5.12.1997	Version 0.3
24.2.1998	Version 0.35
26.4.1998	Version 0.36
12.7.1998	Version 0.4
29.7.1998	Version 0.4b
15.2.1998	Version 0.4X
15.5.1998	Version 0.5
27.4.2003	Version 0.61

Kontakt

Jürgen Hochwald
hochwald@kde.org
homepage:www.jhochwald.de

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Abrufe seit 18.2.1999
Last changes 27.4.2003

Test positions marked with a ? my englich ends.....