Appendix F Other Programs
FDESIGN, by Doug Nelson (CIS ID 70431,3374) - a freeware IFS fractal
generator available from CompuServe in DIGART LIB 9, and probably on
your local BBS. This program requires a VGA adapter and a Microsoft-
compatible mouse, and a floating point coprocessor is highly
recommended. It generates IFS fractals in a *much* more intuitive
fashion than Fractint. It can also (beginning with version 3.0) save
its IFS formulas in Fractint-style .IFS files.
BRAZIL Fractal Generator by David CHARDONNET - A freeware IFS fractal
generator and animator for Windows 95 and Win/NT 4.0 shares common
fractal description language for sharing fractals between fractint and
this program. It can be downloaded from his website:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1837/index_a.html
FRACTINT SCREEN SAVER by Thore Berntsen. This freeware screen saver
works with Fractint. Check this out at:
http://home.sol.no/~thbernt/fintsave.htm
The following pieces of software are pretty old now, but for now these
references are still here. Winfract is based on on old version of
Fractint and is no longer maintained.
WINFRACT. Bert Tyler has ported Fractint to run under Windows 3. The
same underlying code is used, with a Windows user interface. Winfract
has almost all the functionality of Fractint - the biggest difference is
the absence of a zillion weird video modes. Fractint for DOS will
continue to be the definitive version. Winfract is available from
CompuServe in DIGART LIB 9, as WINFRA.ZIP (executable) and WINSRC.ZIP
(source).
PICLAB, by Lee Crocker - a freeware image manipulation utility available
from CompuServe in PICS Lib 10, as PICLAB.EXE. PICLAB can do very
sophisticated resizing and color manipulation of GIF and TGA files. It
can be used to reduce 24 bit TGA files generated with the Fractint
"lightname" option to GIF files.
ACROSPIN, by David Parker - An inexpensive commercial program that reads
an object definition file and creates images that can be rapidly rotated
in three dimensions. The Fractint "orbitsave=yes" option creates files
that this program can read for orbit-type fractals and IFS fractals.
Contact:
David Parker 801-966-2580
P O Box 26871 800-227-6248
Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0871