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Escape-time fractals powered by a formula compiler. Graphics are visualized using distance estimation, normalized iteration count, and/or atom-domain colouring. Navigation is enhanced by Newton-Raphson zooming: a single action can bring you to a mini-set or an embedded Julia. Deep zooming is supported via perturbation techniques.

Install

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential \
  git \
  ghc \
  cabal-install \
  libmpfr-dev \
  libgirepository1.0-dev \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
  libgtksourceview-3.0-dev

The last 3 packages are for the GTK GUI, the CLI version doesn't need them. The GTK version is incompatible with GHC 8.2 due to a bug in that version (8.0, 8.4 and 8.6 are all fine).

Clone

git clone https://code.mathr.co.uk/et.git
cd et

Build

cabal v2-update
cabal v2-install et.cabal

Run

et-cli out.png 640 360 -0.75 0 2 200 1 0 0 1 0 0
et-gtk

Controls

Not all menu items are operational yet.

Left Mouse Button
zoom in
Right Mouse Button
zoom out
Middle Mouse Button
center view
ESC
stop rendering
F5
restart rendering
9
lighter colouring weight
0
darker colouring weight
=
increase maximum iteration limit
-
decrease maximum iteration limit
PAGE UP
zoom in
PAGE DOWN
zoom out
LEFT
RIGHT
UP
DOWN
move viewport in that direction
M
zoom to mini-set
J
zoom to embedded Julia set (experimental)
K
automatically skew
U
reset skew to identity

et -- escape time fractals
Copyright (C) 2018,2019 Claude Heiland-Allen

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

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