hfractal: OpenGL fractal renderer

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An OpenGL fractal browser with multicore support and the capability to output high quality png images.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2.1, 0.3.3.2, 0.4.1, 0.4.2.1, 0.4.2.2, 0.4.2.4, 0.4.2.5
Dependencies array, base (>=3 && <5), colour (>=2.3.1), containers (>=0.2), data-accessor (>=0.2), data-accessor-template (>=0.2), gd (>=3000.2.0 && <3000.3.0), GLUT (>=2.2.1.0), OpenGL (>=2.3), OpenGLRaw (<1.1.0.0) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2009-2010 Chris Holdsworth
Author Chris Holdsworth <chrisholdsworth@gmail.com>
Maintainer Chris Holdsworth <chrisholdsworth@gmail.com>
Category Graphics
Home page http://github.com/cmh/Hfractal
Uploaded by ChrisHoldsworth at 2010-08-25T02:01:31Z
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Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables hfractal
Downloads 9372 total (17 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for hfractal-0.4.2.2

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OpenGL Fractal renderer. Currently only renders the Mandelbrot set, but can extened to other fractals.
Doesn't play well with xmonad - use on the floating layer.

Controls:
    Keyboard
        Arrow keys   -    Movement
        +/-          -    Zoom in/out
        a/s          -    Alter colouring gradient
        f            -    Toggle colouring method
        </>          -    Decrease/increase number of iterations 
                          in escape algorithm.
        p            -    Print a hi-res image of the current location
                          in the working direction
        o            -    Print current location to console

    Mouse
        Left Mouse   -    Centre
        Right Mouse  -    Centre and zoom
        Mouse Wheel  -    Zoom

Can exploit multiple cores - Use hfractal [opts] +RTS -N{cores} to enable this.

On linux the following libraries may be required: [libjpeg8, libpng, libgd2-xpm-dev]