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For those that wish to find a few resources on fractals, mainly software, the following may be of interest:

    http://www.Nahee.com/PNL/Fractal_Software.html (http://www.Nahee.com/PNL/Fractal_Software.html)



 

I know you've had this web page available for people to reference for a long time, and it's been quite a while since I last visited it, until I saw your post here.  I'm glad I just went there because I saw a few items I didn't know about.

Thanks for keeping us all informed with everything !!!!!

Wow...there are ALOT of programs out there! To be expected of course ;) but still amazing!  Thanks for the link, that website looks like a great place to reference :D

I am glad you found this list amazing.   :)

From my last count on fractal related applications, it comes to a little over 600.  I would say 95 percent of those render images.

And I do have a lot of things that may be referenced from my site, so have a look around and follow the links found there.    :)
 

I'll be sure to give it a look! Thanks. :)

I know it's been a few months since this thread was posted in; however, I have a question regarding that list of sites (impressive and extensive list to be sure).

I only see that the first several of them I skimmed thru only go up thru Windows XP.  Are they pretty much compatible with Windows Vista 64 bit? 

Thanks for any assistance.

I have no experience with 64 bit stuffs.

Does a 64 bit system run software made for 32 bit systems?  I know the reverse is not possible, but not sure about the question you are asking.

I know some of the older ones wont even run smoothly on Vista 32 bit!  Micro$oft is not as good at backward compatibility as they used to be...

I'd say just give it a try and find out :D

Can't hurt too much...

Yes, my 64 bit Vista dos run software made for 32 bit systems (well I should say it runs most so far that I've tried).  I found one that was not even geared for Windows (however seemed to be that a friend said it would run on their Windows 2000 but was missing some files - guess it was mainly geared for a DOS environment - I didn't even know anyone still has DOS as their OS).

Thanks for your assistance.  I'm trying a 2nd one that's on the list and will be exploring more as time goes on.

One can usually run those old dos programs in Dosbox (http://www.dosbox.com/)... So if you still want to experiment with those programs, you could give it a try.

Unfortunately MS decided to do away with full-screen DOS mode after XP so as has been stated the older full-screen DOS software will only run on Vista or W7 using Dosbox. The downside to this is that this incurs a severe speed hit of around 3* i.e. running them in Dosbox is at least 3* slower than running them in native full-screen DOS.
If you wish to run them I suggest setting up a dual-boot with XP so you can run them in full-screen DOS.

For some old programs I'm using VirtualBox with installed Windows XP, Windows NT4.0 and DOS. Everything works very well. Some very old 16-bit applications work slower because of CPU emulation.  32-bit programs works with normal speed because VisrualBox is not an emulator but virtualisation environment.

Thanks everyone for the assistance.  I haven't used anything DOS related in about 15 years so I'm totally lost as to how to go about running anything in Dosbox (guess I need to do some research to get me up to speed - I've been so immersed into Windows environments during these past 15 years).  Again, I thank everyone for their replies/suggestions. 

That list of sites is in the order of what the "Fractal Census (http://www.Nahee.com/Census/)" shows as software most often tried/used by people.  And I really do need to update that page some more to indicate which ones will run without problems under both Windows Vista and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).  Let me just say that most of the ones which show as Win-XP will run fine under Vista-64.  (I know for I have run and tested a few hundred of them already.)    :D


It is not that a few of us have DOS as our main OS, it is more that we keep a machine (or more) available that is capable of running some of the older software programs.  I have on an old P-III that has Win-98SE for just this reason (and it gets used almost everyday to render Jim Muth's FOTD (http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/)).


Several weeks ago, an individual posted an email to another discussion list about getting FractInt (http://www.Nahee.com/spanky/www/fractint/fractint.html) working in Vista under DOSBox by using the open source application called "D-Fend Reloaded (http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/)".  And I gave it a try as well to see how it performed.  It ran quite fast on my machine, much faster than I had expected.

If you are serious about using some of the much older applications, then I can create a topic within the Forums for how to go about setting everything up.    :)
 

Can anyone recommend a fractal generation app that works for that Mac, and that enables the creation of 3D fractals that can be exported as .obj's for use in other 3D apps?

I'm also looking for fractal plugins that work well with Cinema 4D and/or After Effects, which enable the creation of animatable fractals.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
Shalom

PS - I'm new to this forum, so if this question has already been answered, I apologize.

Join the crowd!

I've been asking for a decent way to export 3D obj or other files forever!  It seems nobody can find a way to handle it easily.  I tell them we know the files will be in excess of 500 MB, and don't care - but it is still a feature we will have to wait a very long time for with the Mandelbox and bulb.

Try Xenodream.

It's the best one I found for obj files of 3D stuffs.

It will be a Very Long Time before we get nice obj files from Mandelbulb 3D or the like...  if ever.

Good luck with it and let us know how you make out.

And Welcome to the forum!



EDIT - I use Xenodream and M3D on my mac, running under WINE - they are natively windows programs.  There is precious little good software out there for macs!   O0

Shalom Shalom  ;D,

Welcome to the forums! I know that Incendia exports 3D meshes, but I don't know in what format. You can check it out at www.incendia.net (http://www.incendia.net)

I believe that all of the MAC programs that Terry W. Gintz has written will export 3-D fractals into not only the .OBJ file format, but other 3-D file formats as well.  You can go to his web page for the MysticFactal applications:  http://www.MysticFractal.com/ (http://www.mysticfractal.com/).

And several of them are capable of handling the Mandelbulb type images.
 

That's a very large list, but I see that a few of these fractal apps go back to the early days.  Will many of these applications run on today's modern operating systems without using virtual machine software like Virtualbox?

thanks  for the input

There are well over 600 fractal rendering applications available to the public.   There are probably at least another 100 or so that are privately owned.   And many of these date back to the very beginning of fractal image creation.   As to running some of the really old programs on more modern machines/operating systems, there are ways to simulate the older environments, if that is what one wishes to do.   A small selection of these older programs have been maintained to this date and are capable of running on newer systems.

What I prefer doing is actually running these older applications within their normal environment, which is why I keep so many of my older machines capable of functioning.   I have a Win-98-SE machine that handles most of the older programs.   And I still have working IBM-XT and -AT machines for those really old times!!!   :D
 

The Open Directory Project has a page about fractal software:

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Chaos_and_Fractals/Software/