glfract v0.2.1
by jim susinno (@cs.jhu.edu)


Project Requirements:
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Unix/Linux/IRIX with X11
gcc / CC
OpenGL + GLU + glut (or Mesa)

--- or ---

Windows 98 or better (and glut32.dll) (and cygwin.dll)


Tested platforms:
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Sun/Sparc Ultra 5 (Solaris/Mesa)
Dell/Intel/Linux (Mesa-3.1 | NVidia)
SGI Octane/Indigo/O2 (IRIX 6.5)
Windows/glut32.dll/cygwin.dll




Description:
This program loads fractal {Mandelbrot, Julia} sets from file as specified by David Eyerman's
Eyefract v0.6.0 and displays them in 3D space with OpenGL/Glut.


UPDATE May 1 2003:
Latest Windows port is v0.2.1, current with latest Linux version.
---> winGLfract021.zip

Features:
- Fully adjustable resolution
- On and off-line rendering of fractal
- 2D and 3D display of fractal map
- Colormap support (map written in .jsn files)
- Integrated command line
- Full control over mouse input and display output
- Unlimited zoom (currently limited by the depth of the double-precision floating point data type)

Documentation:
README_glfract.txt - 6.4k - The included Readme file, fairly good description

Sources:
glfract-0.2.1.tar.gz - 23.9k - Tar.gz file of everything(source, Makefile, description, sample fractal sets)

Builds:
winGLfract021.zip - 60.6k - Windows zip file, includes executable, README and 10 state files.


To obtain the glut32.dll file, follow this link to GLUT for windows download page
To obtain the cygwin.dll file, follow this link to Cygwin Home Page